Overtaking behaviour

There has been some brilliant opportunity for some overtaking this week due to several people wanting to crawl along at ridiculously slow speeds on the way back from work. Honestly, India will have conquered how to build a Mcdonalds on the moon, before some of these people will make it home!

One person decided they would do 35mph on a 60mph road, with a long straight.  The car behind that hesitated and wanted to stick behind it, sniffing its rear exhaust. So i went for it and overtook both of them. No hastle, so fuss - overtaken safely and made it home before the next Ice Age.  That was Tuesday.

Wednesday, another one decided they would do 40mph on a 60mph road.  I didn't hesitate, i went for it and overtook as soon as it was safe, and again all was well.

No doubt it was me who was seen as the reckless driver here - but i was not taking risks, i was completely safe. If you don't think its safe, don't do it. If you hesitate, don't do it. Only perform an overtake if you are sure you can keep control of your car.

If you get overtaken constantly, surely you should be thinking "perhaps i should go a bit faster?"

Drunk Driver Alert

During the past week Ive seen a handful of drivers who are potentially drunk. The worrying thing is that one of these was at 9am in the morning! All of them have been swerving over the road, going way too slow for the road conditions and not having any road awareness whatsoever.  In fact i'm pretty sure our two 10 month only kittens would be able to drive a car better than all of these people put together. Are cat driving licences a thing of the future?

The police are generally pretty good at sniffing out the secret vodka drinkers, and getting them banned. BUT... the chances are that the people who are consistently drunk behind the wheel aren't actually going to care if they have their licence taken away. The next day they'll get in the car after having a few too many cans of floor polish and do it all over again.  What is there to stop them?  Sorry sir, you're banned again - even though you've been banned 15 times already. "WHO'S A NAUGHTY BOY THEN... DONT DO IT AGAIN!"

Something has to change. If you are caught blatantly and knowingly drunk behind the wheel you should be made to do something really nasty. Such as working in McDonalds for an example or even worse KFC.