Nob of the Day.......

[Gin]

Good news!

Though I am very disapointed we didn't get a depressed picture of you in a pink shirt

[MrBrightside]

I'd have not worn it! Ever! I'd have spent a few weeks in the unmarked car waiting for new uniform lol.

[Gin]

!! Right! That's it!

Your Rally costume needs to be a Pink Popo!

The Pink Police.. A camp copper!

[MrBrightside]

You know what....I knew this would come! Haha

I might wear something pink....but probably won't

[XmisterIS]

NOTD goes to the pillock in the stupid little "hot hatch" (complete with nürburg ring bumper sticker) in front of me who started pulling out to overtake the car in front of him, when I'd already begun my overtake of both vehicles. Did he pull back in when I held my thumb on the (very loud upgraded) horn? No, of course not.

[soll]

NOTD goes to ME for my actions last night... but it made me giggle.

Almost home, travelling at the posted speed limit i notice ahead 3 young ladies walking, none of them seem to be talking and have that slight head down posture of people walking and texting/facebooking watching porn stance.

Mr Evil decided to pop up and said "hey, pete. They aint paying any attention to the outside world.. lets wake them up" I looked across to my other shoulder and saw the angel tied up and gagged by mr Evil.

SO as I approached the 3 ladies i pulled in the clutch to drop engine tone to minimal, and as i got right beside them, I gave them full on Scorpion BLARP BLARP BLARP, and shot off......

well the view in my mirror was worth it... lmao....

[Grumpy Old Git]

Feeling a bit sad this am - weather forecast said 'RAIN' so i took the cage to work.

Thank you White Audi (with a personalised number plate) driver who did his very best to cheer me up! Heading South on the A1 towards the 'new' Biggleswade roundabout. He is a couple of cars behind in the right-hand queue. Left-hand queue moving quicker - he darts across cutting up a van.....

Anyhoo, the right-hand lane moves slightly quicker and he is now alongside me with two lorries immediately in front of him. I get as far as adjacent to the cab of the rear lorry and he cuts in behind me - to the anoyance of the car (blue Ford something) behind who sounds his horn and flashes his lights. Traffic is again slowing and I only get half-way along the side of the second lorry before the lorries start to pull slowly ahead. This situation continues to yo-yo along the road and up the hill towards the Baldock turning. I start to move ahead again and get to the front of the lead lorry only to see the Audi virtually on my rear bumprer, indicating left and flashing his lights so,.........

Yarp - I become a real NOB and stay with the lorry until we eventually reach the next queue approaching Stevenage (where I turn off). I think I made his day!!!!

[Gin]

Love it!! Haha fair play to you

[Grumpy Old Git]

Yes but..... If I was in the queue of cars to the rear of the Audi, I would not have been impressed!

However, it certainly has made my day - I am still grinning as I type this!

[Mr Fro]

I like slightly evil GoG.

[Arwen]

That is fantastic GoG

[Glorian]

We've all done it

"I dislike your driving so im going to make your drive as bad as possible"

[Grumpy Old Git]

I like slightly evil GoG.

 

I'll have to say 3 'Hail Mary's' on Sunday! (or just go out on t'bike if the weather is good)).

[JRH]

Number 1 goes to the red Focus ST who decided he wanted my bit of the road while I was along side his passenger door approaching traffic lights so he could get to the front.

Number 2 goes to the taxi driver further on who just pull out in front of me then turned right. There was nothing behind me at the time either. .

Most days my commute is un eventful today was just a reminder of what can happen.

[Guest]

My nomination goes to my workmate. He had an altecation with another driver over a 2 lane into 1 filter. He flipped the other driver the finger and then drove off. Forgetting he is in a works van with our name on it. Needless to say he had a bit of slap when he came to work. He is the apprentice so he took some stick off us after the boss had a word.

[XmisterIS]

My nomination goes to my workmate. He had an altecation with another driver over a 2 lane into 1 filter. He flipped the other driver the finger and then drove off. Forgetting he is in a works van with our name on it. Needless to say he had a bit of slap when he came to work. He is the apprentice so he took some stick off us after the boss had a word.

 

that reminds me of an incident that happened many years ago when i was in my first job, just out of university. I was a 21 year old boy racer with a red mark 1 ford fiesta, which i drove like an absolute lunatic. One day i badly cut up a fellow employee (stuffy boring 40-something - a bit like me now ) who followed me into the works car park and told my boss, who had a word with me. Shortly after that, i ditched the fiesta and invested in a Nissan primera GT ... which was black. Over the next six months, the employee whom i'd cut up carefully and secretly catalogued every bit of bad driving by small red cars near the office. One day i came in and was called straight into the boss's office. There were my boss and the grumpy employee, who read out every entry in the dossier he'd prepared. Of course, i knew from the start i had him snookered, so i just waited until he'd finished, then i asked, "what colour is my car?" "Red!" he cried with great relish. "Nope. My car is black. Its in the car park now, would you like to see it?" If, at that moment, if the floor could have opened and swallowed him whole, I think he would have welcomed it. My boss just laughed and patted him on the shoulder. Ironically, I'm now the boring 40-something who drives a sensible car very sensibly (well - sensibly-ish - it's a very small car so it goes round corners like a roller-skate) and tuts at boy racers!

[Mr Fro]

Today the award goes to... the sales assistant in PC World!

I went it with the intention of spending £600 on a lappy (already had a voucher for £100). The boy came over, I showed him what I wanted and he went and found one. So good so far. He told me it was the last one and that they had already pre-installed some stuff on it. I said I expected a discount as I'd have to wipe it and reinstall only the stuff I wanted - he agreed to a tenner off - better than nothing. He then rang it up and said "That'll be £630 please". "That's £30 more than the ticket price - what happened to my tenner off" I say. "Oh" he said "The pre-installation is £40 so you get a tenner off that". "I'm not paying extra for something I have to undo. Either it's £590 or there's no sale". "Ummm, that's the best I can do" says boy. I gave him a little wave as I left the shop empty handed.

[MR_W]

Pissy world is full of incompetent twats. I was in one a few years ago for a splitter to put 2 headphones into 1 Jack. Guy came up and asked what I was after, proceeded to lead me round the store before declaring they didn't have any. I walked back to where I had been stood and grabbed the one I had been looking at when he walked up....

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[Joeman]

My physics teacher always used to tell me "concentrate in class or you'll end up working in Dixon's"...

Since Dixon's closed down,I guess they all end up in PC world now.

[Hoggs]

I had to return a DAB radio for exchange (to currys) as it weirdly died many years ago. Took it back with all the receipts and the guy tried to tell me I had to pay an additional 20 quid as the price had increased since I bought it

I asked if there was an adult I could speak to

[mpl]

I refuse to go anywhere near a Currys/PCWorld after having a hand put up to me twice and told to listen by a salesman trying to sell insurance that I had already said I wasn't interested in, didn't need and certainly didn't want. That was after going to pick up something reserved on line that then took them half an hour to actually find in store! Dreadful, dreadful company.

[XmisterIS]

No less than THREE notds today ...

1) Stupid bitch who went mental because I filtered past her completely stationary car into the huge empty space in front of her car in a completely stationary queue of traffic. She mounted the pavement and tried to drive round me on the inside to reclaim her place in the queue, and shouted out of the window at me that I was "queue jumping", and then went off on a rant about "all you motorbikes, you think you own the road, etc, etc". I told her to f**k off.

2) Me! Yes, I am NOTD - I filtered past a junction with a stationary car waiting to emerge and turn across traffic. Could have been nasty if he had pulled out. I spotted it when I had already begun the manoeuvre. Twat. I told myself to f**k off!

3) Stupid old git in oncoming car who flashed me AFTER I had done an overtake. He was bloody miles away and flashed me AFTER I'd pulled back in and he was still miles away. Wagged his finger at me as he went past. Twat. Learn to judge speed and distance you geriatric tosspot!

[Stu]

No less than THREE notds today ...

1) Stupid bitch who went mental because I filtered past her completely stationary car into the huge empty space in front of her car in a completely stationary queue of traffic. She mounted the pavement and tried to drive round me on the inside to reclaim her place in the queue, and shouted out of the window at me that I was "queue jumping", and then went off on a rant about "all you motorbikes, you think you own the road, etc, etc". I told her to f**k off.

2) Me! Yes, I am NOTD - I filtered past a junction with a stationary car waiting to emerge and turn across traffic. Could have been nasty if he had pulled out. I spotted it when I had already begun the manoeuvre. Twat. I told myself to f**k off!

3) Stupid old git in oncoming car who flashed me AFTER I had done an overtake. He was bloody miles away and flashed me AFTER I'd pulled back in and he was still miles away. Wagged his finger at me as he went past. Twat. Learn to judge speed and distance you geriatric tosspot!

 

and.....breath

[Fozzie]

3) Stupid old git in oncoming car who flashed me AFTER I had done an overtake. He was bloody miles away and flashed me AFTER I'd pulled back in and he was still miles away. Wagged his finger at me as he went past. Twat. Learn to judge speed and distance you geriatric tosspot!

 

This! You could get a bus to do the overtake in good time and they flash you with a disapproving gesture.

This morning I had a guy going the opposite way to me see me filtering. I'm still in my lane but close to the central dotted line.

He swings over and lines his right wheels so they are going over the white lines. At first I think the driver ahead of him has upset him. I'm still going to easily clear him so I carry on.

Then as he gets close he gets on the horn and is spitting blood at me. And as I wasn't expecting it I was caught just staring at him like a rabbit in headlights.

It was so random, as it clicked he was trying to force me over in my own lane and stop me filtering. Why he was doing that when I had no affect on him or his journey in any way I don't know. He just seemed to lose the plot and get angry with a biker doing something that gets by the traffic quicker.

Bashed up white mondeo... So I suspect he doesn't have a clue about the dimensions of his car or has deliberately got himself into trouble before.

[Gin]

2) Me! Yes, I am NOTD - I filtered past a junction with a stationary car waiting to emerge and turn across traffic. Could have been nasty if he had pulled out. I spotted it when I had already begun the manoeuvre. Twat. I told myself to f**k off!

This actually really made me smile!

It's really difficult to put our hands up and say when our own riding has put us in dangerous situations..

I find it amazing how one little slip up can spiral to a really nasty situation so quickly and especially as bikers we need to be hyper aware of our errors due to our vulnerability..

Oohh Looks like the coffee's kicked in!

Sorry XmIS for babbling on, but well proud of you for knowing your own riding mishaps

Stay shiny side up!