Morning drivers antics

jobseeker999 · 11-12-2012 01:03PM

My Mrs was given a hairdyer for xmas last year that plugs into the cigarette lighter port. Insane.
Anybody that spills milk on the seats in the car is in for a rude awakening. During the Celtic tiger years I actually sold my car as the smell was so bad after Milk spilt into the rear seats and footwells.

Sinfonia · 11-12-2012 01:06PM

Everyone's a ****, basically.

morton · 11-12-2012 01:08PM

tin79 wrote: »

If you can post a reference for your soakage theory I will believe you.

Has to be peer reviewed. It all hangs on this.

no can do ..........it was a personal theory, based on my consumption of various breakfast cereals ( eaten sitting at the table at home ) and I just finished off the last packet in my variety pack this morning.

Oh I forgot to include coco pops... but then I would've seen brown milk.

TheDoc · 11-12-2012 01:09PM

morton wrote: »

Walking past a long line of traffic this morning, I'm flabbergasted at the amount of people not concentrating on their driving.

There's the numerous drivers on their mobile phones (get a flipping hands free kit or Bluetooth! )

Then the ones blinded by the morning sun, that don't pull down their visor or put on sunglasses and seem to think that their hand will block the sun.

There's drivers who don't defrost their windscreens are are literally driving in a fog.

I've seen a handful of parents leaning over backwards when driving trying to feed their kids and veering across the road, as well as the 2 people I've seen actually eating their breakfast from a bowl( couldn't see what cereal they had though!)

Finally one woman nearly drove through a red light, skidding past the stop line at the junction. She was too busy putting on her eyeliner. I'd hate to see what the finished look was.

DRIVERS get up 5 minutes earlier and do all this crap before you go out driving!

Have to agree with you, I'm relatively new to driving ( driving one year) and only in the last few months making it daily in and out of my office in city centre. The morning is a bit mental alright.

As the op kinda eluded too, the amount of stuff people do that causes them to lose concentration is unreal. I think the height of my distractions are lighting a smoke, but I'd do that at a full stop at a red light.

I've seen woman applying makeup in their mirrors while driving busy inner city roads, I just literally take a double look at it.

john.wobble · 11-12-2012 04:10PM

I am one of those driver pricks, I eat cereal in the car while looking through 2 small holes I have carved out of the ice in my windscreen.

Quite frankly an extra 5 mins in bed is far more important than seeing cyclists or pedestrians.

I have never understood why the rules of the road aren't like Africa.
If an elephant steps out of the bush, all the smaller animals leg it
same down the food chain

a car is bigger than and can kill a pedestrian or cyclist but guess what - you can't kill me with your crap mode of transport.

So get out of my way, thanx

Mr Benevolent · 11-12-2012 04:17PM

john.wobble wrote: »

a car is bigger than and can kill a pedestrian or cyclist but guess what - you can't kill me with your crap mode of transport.

So get out of my way, thanx

A lorry can smear you all over the road, troll.

PizzamanIRL · 11-12-2012 04:20PM

morton wrote: »

as well as the 2 people I've seen actually eating their breakfast from a bowl( couldn't see what cereal they had though!)

I do that sometimes.

Porridge by the way.

x43r0 · 11-12-2012 04:20PM

FatherLen wrote: »

ha that came out of nowhere.

Just like they like to do

Cyclist: "Red light eh? Well I'm sure that's just meant for cars. Now to continue through this pedestrian crossing without looking to my sides......."

brokenarms · 12-12-2012 06:33AM

Not enough Garda on the road. Not nearly enough unmarked.

I see people regularly put on make up, talk and text, even read mail and news papers driving at 100kph on the N7.

Madness.

corkgsxr · 12-12-2012 09:41AM

i eat my porridge on the way in. but mostly when stopped at lights

wouldnt risk the likes of rice crispys though. spilled milk would be horrible.

rameire · 12-12-2012 10:00AM

Saw a woman this morning on the m7 in a Toyota just after the m9 junction at 7:20 doing what looked like the warm up of her tyres like they do in F1.nope she was just using her phone. Seriously what the fcuk is so important at 7:20 am that you need to have your phone in your hand. These people should be shot.

OldGoat · 12-12-2012 11:39AM

jobseeker999 wrote: »

My Mrs was given a hairdyer for xmas last year that plugs into the cigarette lighter port...

Best window deicer/defogger ever.

Skyn · 12-12-2012 11:50AM

girl in the striped socks wrote: »

I have witnessed some stupid things on the roads but I have never, ever witnessed someone eating out of a bowl or putting on eye make up.

I was behind a car at the lights one of the morning's recently and it started to roll back towards me. In a panic i gave a friendly beep ( if there is a such a thing ) and flashed my lights. The car managed to stop before it hit me and moved forward again until it started to roll back a second time :eek:. The van in the lane next to me beeped and rolled his window down and told he the driver was eating a bowl of cereal. I arrived the next morning at the same spot behind the same car and you can guess what happened next... :mad:

ann0 · 17-12-2012 10:50AM

i think the worst is.people leaning over the back seats.to tell kids of.why cant people not tell kids of.and look at the road.at the same time.it dosent matter if u look at them or not..there not listening to you.in there heads there telling u to shut up.and the more u tell them of the worse they get.my dog is better behaved in a car.he sits with his belt on him.and dosent move.

Vojera · 17-12-2012 11:15AM

Coming through Glasnevin one morning I saw a guy typing on his laptop which was sitting on the passenger seat. He was stopped in traffic at the time, but seriously, imagine being such a slave to your job (or whatever he was doing).

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