Frost and Fog
Posted: Wed 20 December, 2006 Filed under: Cynicism, Thoughts, Travel, Weirdness 3 Comments »Last night, I did the drive back from Poole to Attleborough. I left at 5, which was already a bad move – it took an hour just to get to the M27. Absolute nightmare.
Anyway, I got home at 9.30 in the end – so once things got going, I actually made exceptionally good time – the Laguna was an absolute joy to drive, and had some decent speed, which made the journey a lot easier as well.
What was surprising, though, even to a cynic such as myself, was how many drivers seemed to forget that
- they had fog lights on
- they had full-beam headlights on
and on a couple of memorable occasions - that they really should put their lights on once they’d left a services area.
Considering that the weather was foul – although I definitely now have no problems driving in fog – it was amazing to me just how many fucking idiots there are on the roads. I know it shouldn’t, but it did/does.
This morning it was the same thing – the entire drive was pretty much blanketed in fog, and in some areas ice/frost as well – and yet there were people (mainly in white cars/vans, which didn’t help) who didn’t even have lights on, so their vehicles just disappeared into the fog. Very scary.
All went well though, and that’s another set of ticks in the “Done That” list – but jesus, people scare me.
Mate. You’ll need to start a new blog if you are going to list ‘stupid driver’ issues, the buggers are all over the place! 😉
all the time ive been driving nothing supprises me no more when it comes to the idiots on the road, last nite in the fog i had my front fog lights on as it was realy foggy and when it cleared a bit i turned them off, but while i was driving in the fog with the fog lights on i had other drivers flashing there headlights at me whats that all about my fog lights are not irratating like on some cars so i wonder why i was being flshed at, i might have a page on my blog for the idiots on the road
Don’t get me started on fog lights. I’m sure that drivers who put them on in the slightest bit of mist don’t realise a) how blinding they are to the driver behind, and b) how much they overpower the visibility of the brake lights, in some cases rendering them unnoticeable.
Extremely dangerous, and extremely selfish.