Barmy driving

Yesterday’s snow (which has all disappeared here now, thanks to a dollop of rain last night) brought out a bundle of bizarre driving habits along with it.

Fortunately none were as dodgy as this bell-end who took his 1300cc bike up to (at least) 122mph with his son riding pillion and said “But it had started to rain and I pulled back the throttle”. Yes, it had started raining, so he sped up to twice the speed limit. Way to go, dickweed.

Yesterday I got to see several idiots though – particularly (as I said at the time) drivers of four-wheel-drive vehicles with still no idea how to handle the weather at all. There were also (as always) several people driving with foglights on (yes, it’s one of my particular bug-bears, I know) during both snow and the evening rain. Now first of all the visibility wasn’t that bad at any point yesterday that it needed foglights on – but also foglights aren’t (as these drivers seemed to think) a Magic Talisman Of Road Protection™®, so I don’t understand the mental equation that says “I think the visibility is so bad that I need to put my foglights on, but I won’t slow down and I’ll still whack along this dual-carriageway at 80+ mph“.

All told, a very strange day on the roads.

But one good thing was that because of all the media rubbish about bad weather etc., there was virtually no traffic on the way home from work – I think I made the best time yet…