At 6pm this evening on my way home from work, I turned left from Drift Road onto Howe Lane, which runs from the Bracknell/Binfield/Wokingham direction towards Paley Street and Maidenhead. A few hundred metres onto Howe Lane, I noticed a set of headlights approaching fast in my rear view mirror. Within a few seconds there is a little boy sitting about two feet from my rear bumper at 60mph (driving a blue Clio 182, reg HT53***, in case you're wondering what this message is doing on a Clio forum).
At this point, I'd like to say I've got nothing against a quick blat down a country lane, during the day with no other traffic about. But this was along an unlit stretch of road, in the dark, at rush hour, and there were at least two cars clearly visible only 50 metres in front of me. And plenty of oncoming traffic, so no opportunity to overtake.
If the Clio driver happens to be a member of this forum and is reading:
1) Don't drive like you're depriving a window somewhere of its licker. There's a time and a place.
2) Try to avoid racing cars with almost 100bhp more than yours. If the other driver stops laughing at you long enough to bother (I couldn't), you will lose.
3) Turn your fog lights off. In your haste to try to park in my boot, you evidently failed to notice all the partially blinded motorists around you. You cannot, however, have failed to notice that IT'S NOT FCKING FOGGY.
At this point, I'd like to say I've got nothing against a quick blat down a country lane, during the day with no other traffic about. But this was along an unlit stretch of road, in the dark, at rush hour, and there were at least two cars clearly visible only 50 metres in front of me. And plenty of oncoming traffic, so no opportunity to overtake.
If the Clio driver happens to be a member of this forum and is reading:
1) Don't drive like you're depriving a window somewhere of its licker. There's a time and a place.
2) Try to avoid racing cars with almost 100bhp more than yours. If the other driver stops laughing at you long enough to bother (I couldn't), you will lose.
3) Turn your fog lights off. In your haste to try to park in my boot, you evidently failed to notice all the partially blinded motorists around you. You cannot, however, have failed to notice that IT'S NOT FCKING FOGGY.
