tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11278247.post113263133431598857..comments2012-05-08T16:18:56.876+10:00Comments on A Man and his Rant: No Use For A TitleJustin Warnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14995847102962013980noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11278247.post-1132873662158217622005-11-25T10:07:00.000+11:002005-11-25T10:07:00.000+11:00Yep, I'm totally there with the sunday driver comm...Yep, I'm totally there with the sunday driver comment. It's worrying to think that while they are driving slowly, they are doing so out of lack of awareness which indicates they might be more dangerous on the road (not to mention antagonising other drivers).<BR/><BR/>And it's also frustrating when such drivers have really expensive cars, yet are not using the ability of those cars to avoid obstruction to other drivers. Ok, my specific gripe here is that I like to get a run-up at the start of a steep, long uphill. Then you get some old guy in a commodore statesman going really slowly, and when they hit the uphill bit they accelerate and power on up; meanwhile, my little engine would have been fine if it had just been able to get some speed up beforehand.<BR/><BR/>On a tangent, this leads to my paradoxical driving tip: generally it's better to hang back from such drivers to give yourself a run up so that you can overtake them just at the point when the overtaking lane starts 200m up the hill (this really applies to wimpy cars that choose to go slow into a hill)<BR/><BR/>Ok my ranting is done here. Except to say that if I had a powerful car I would not inconvenience other drivers by going slowly in front of them...<BR/><BR/>(hooray for stereotypes!)Monkeytreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05731428503863624868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11278247.post-1132783278582520972005-11-24T09:01:00.000+11:002005-11-24T09:01:00.000+11:00I totally understand Justin. Things like this hap...I totally understand Justin. Things like this happen to me all the time - ok, so I don't usually get stuck behind a porsche, but I regularly get stuck behing people doing up to 40 km under the speed limit! Especially on that road in Yarramundi that goes up the mountain.... It's a 100km speed zone, yet people (driving cars that are clearly able to do this speed) are driving on it at say 50km - 60km. I like to call them "hats" or "Sunday Drivers", because in my experience, lots of people drive slow on Sundays (they are usually older people who only take their car out for a drive once a week), and lots of those people also wear hats. Except these days they seem to drive slow on other days as well, not just sundays. Now I wouldn't mind if they were doing a bit under the speed limit, like you said, but 40km under? That's just annoying. It's like they've missed the giant signs along the road that say "100km". And then when they get to the 80km zone on the road, they suddenly realise the speed limit and they speed up to 80km so you can't overtake them! grrrrrrrr....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com