SCRIBBLES ON... MOTORWAY HIGH SPEED LANE SWAPPERS
Sorry for the lack of posts, but I've been away to Devon for a few days. The sun shone. Kids splashed in the sea. Everyone wore flip-flops. It felt like a proper holiday. It's raining again today though.
One thing I noticed on my two M5 journeys is that there appears to be a style of motorway driving that has become the height of fashion for far too many.
We're all familiar with the Middle Lane Hogger, but they seem to have been supplanted in numbers (and irritation factor) by the High Speed Lane Swapper.
The High Speed Lane Swapper drives a sporty car and slams up behind you in the fast lane doing 90 mph plus. Once you've overtaken the cars you need to overtake, you move back into the middle lane, out of his way. The fast lane is his. But instead of him continuing unimpeded at 90 mph in that lane, the irritating twat swings dramatically in front of you in the middle lane.
You are travelling about 80 mph, he's travelling 90 mph, you are surrounded by other vehicles doing the same sort of speeds, and he thinks it's a great idea to cut you up.
He continues speeding. At 90 miles an hour he obviously can't stay in the middle lane, so when he slams up behind the next car in the same lane, he has to swing out into the fast lane again.
Why? Why do that? If you are intent on going twenty miles an hour and more above the speed limit, why not just stick in the fast lane?
The worst ones, on a less busy motorway, will also swing into the slow lane if there is space. You watch them making their way up the motorway, dramatically weaving in and out of cars at speed when the fast lane is mostly free.
It is attention seeking of the most annoying sort because it's dangerous. I don't give a shit if they have a fancy car that goes really really fast, I don't want to be part of a five car pile up because some wanker is having an adolescent fanatsy that they are driving at Le Mans.
The pulling in front of you. It's like they are deliberately trying to communicate with you how little they think of your existence. Like they are saying - you are so unimportant in your slower, less expensive car that I barely noticed you there as I moved into this lane, but whilst you are there, look how flash my car is as I speed off in front of you.
It's maddening that you can't find someway to say back to them that you find their need to validate their sense of superiority on other road users sad and pathetic. That they don't look flash. They look like a three year old crying to get mommy's attention because they've done big poo poos they're proud of.
Should a High Speed Lane Swapper be reading this, just to let you know, other drivers on the motorway aren't thinking, "Wow! Look at that great car being expertly driven at speed by some superior human being. I feel so inferior". We are all thinking "What an arsehole."
3 comments:
don't whine to ME - you, at least, apparently have the TRUCKS in their own lane.
Australian freeways have huge trucks exceeding the speed limits, and tail-gating as well. It is completely terrifying for even a confident driver, to be sandwiched between these monsters, and 'at speed'. Evenn in pouring rain they don't slow.
oh don't get me started.
Sorry, but what exactly is your problem? . You acknowledge that a middle lane hogger is a bad thing, but the same bit of the highway code that applies to them, also applies to "fast' lane: If there is nothing for you to over take then get out of the over taking lane. Now if you want to have a rant about the spaces that people leave when changing lanes, feel free. But the act of changing lanes as you describe it IS good driving.
Oh dear anonymous, have I upset you? Are you one of them High Speed Lane Swappers and you're distressed that people don't admire you, but think you're an areshole?
I really wouldn't have bothered to write a post about cars changing lanes on a motorway. Really, I wouldn't. So read my post again and pay special attention to the parts where I talk about the cars slamming up behind you, or cutting in front, or weaving in and out of traffic like they are at le Mans.
It's NOT good driving to intimidate other road users by driving dangerously close behind them or to make them apply their brakes because you cut them up. I really hope that you know that.
And use your indicator too.
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