I am confused and a bit upset.

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I am confused and a bit upset.

by Tentativeplotfinder @ 25/05/2007 – 21:13:30

I’ve spent the 100 mile car journey home through the pleasant Oxfordshire/Warwickshire/Worcestershire countryside being made to feel I am a bad and inconsiderate driver…

Purely because I stick to speed limits.

Today, I’ve had fists shaken at me, and rude signs. Cars driving up as close as possible and hooting their horns.

I know the limits are often irritating, I was getting a bit peeved with some of them! But they’re as they are for a reason, (I hope!)

I usually enjoy a drive home after a long meeting, but this was not a pleasurable experience for most of the journey.

Thankfully, I had a large bar of chocolate to console my soul.
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- denzil85
- 25/05/2007 @ 21:16:24
Thats one of the reasons I've never got around to learning to drive - other inconsiderate drivers! I hope you start feeling better soon
- - Tentativeplotfinder
  - 25/05/2007 @ 21:22:39
  Thank you - I am beginning to feel more equitable about it!
  
  It doesn' usually get to me, but for some reason there seemed to be more than usual out there determined to make the law-abiding feel bad!
  - - denzil85
    - 25/05/2007 @ 21:25:12
    I suppose having written how you're feeling about it down will have released some of the emotions you had and thats why you're feeling a little better about it.
    
    It does seem that there are more and more people who are as you put it determined to make the law-abiding feel bad!
    - - Tentativeplotfinder
      - 25/05/2007 @ 21:35:51
      It's one of the greatest reasons to blog, as far as I'm concerned, it means I don't dump all my emotional stuff on those who share my life and who are more rational and logical than me!!
      - denzil85
        
        25/05/2007 @ 22:00:38
        
        Yeah thats almost the sole reason that I blog, to get things off my chest that I'd rather not have people around me knowing about.
        
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        Tentativeplotfinder
        
        26/05/2007 @ 16:30:39
        
        It syphons off the worst excesses of emotional outpourings for me, then I can usually be a bit more rational!!
        
        Can't get to the rational without doing emotional, and I live with people who find that confusing...
        
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        denzil85
        
        26/05/2007 @ 18:51:46
        
        I understand what you mean, I'm not like that myself but I know where you're coming from when you say that.
        
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- deleted user (Visitor)
- 25/05/2007 @ 21:49:56
I know the one...but who needs points on their licence and a fine if caught speeding? as well as the obvious reason of their being a reason fro the limits.....Horrible driving with people right up yer backside breathing down your neck and snarling.... enjoy your chocolate!!
- - Tentativeplotfinder
  - 25/05/2007 @ 21:53:19
  Exactly!!! I have a clean licence, and intend to keep it that way.
  
  The chocolate really did help..
  - - deleted user (Visitor)
    - 25/05/2007 @ 21:58:56
    heck I've had 3 lots of points for being 6 miles an hour over the limit......and the 3 fines....I have finally learnt to be neurotic about speed limits........
    - - Tentativeplotfinder
      - 26/05/2007 @ 16:34:02
      I think, to be fair, it's just I've never been caught! I'm certainly rarely under the speed limit on a clear motorway/dual carriageway, but rarely excessively so.
      
      I have always been careful in towns, built up areas and narrow country roads! And I was doing a lot of those yesterday.
      - deleted user (Visitor)
        
        26/05/2007 @ 19:11:52
        
        yeah...cant be too careful....those speed cameras are out to rob us of our money and to give us points on our licences.....huh!!
        
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- jenray ^Pro
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- 25/05/2007 @ 22:30:25
Horrible experience...I got run off the road one night by a lorry who tailed me for about a couple of miles while I stuck to the speed limit, and could have overtaken me any time on an empty road, but refused to until I finally had to pull right off the road...I'd just taken my hubby to work and there was nobody else around so it was damned scary...I wanted to kill the bastard...road rage had nothing on what I felt for that driver...put me off driving my hubby to work at night after that.
- - Tentativeplotfinder
  - 26/05/2007 @ 06:58:51
  Awful, isn't it?
  
  About six of the nasty people eventually overtook me, but I did pull off the road for two of them. There just seemed an awful lot of it for one two hour drive.
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- Usksider ^Pro
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- 26/05/2007 @ 02:43:46
There are some real pigs on our roads aren't there? Try and take no notice (not always an easy thing to do, I know).

As Lonemum says, better to stick to the speed limits and avoid the fines/points, even if it does hack-off the odd idiot!
- - Tentativeplotfinder
  - 26/05/2007 @ 07:02:16
  Thank you!
  
  Mostly, I ignore them all - I think it was the fact there were about eight of these incidents going on for about two or three miles each time, on a road I wasn't that familiar with, that got to me a bit.
  
  Here's hoping Tuesday's driver's are feeling more considerate.
  
  I'll wave as we go past!!
  - - Usksider ^Pro
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    - 26/05/2007 @ 07:08:51
    That's the ticket.
    
    Down this way next week then?
    
    I'll wave in your direction as I head north on Monday...
    - - Tentativeplotfinder
      - 26/05/2007 @ 07:16:06
      Well, going past on the M5 - but I will wave, (and cause much confusion,) at the appropriate-ish place.
      
      That's if you're there on Tuesday? Or are you only doing a day trip north?
      - Usksider ^Pro
        
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        26/05/2007 @ 11:04:01
        
        Yep I'll be here: a round trip to West Yorkshire on Monday to collect dear daughter from university at Bradford, so I'll be waving in both directions (so to speak!).
        
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        Tentativeplotfinder
        
        26/05/2007 @ 16:35:39
        
        I'll try not to fall off the step ladder as you wave..
        
        Monday is a designated Painting and Decorating Day!
        
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        Usksider ^Pro
        
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        26/05/2007 @ 17:24:14
        
        Forewarned is forarmed, as they say. We'll be passing on the north-bound leg sometime around 5:00am (you'll still be in the land of Morpheus then won't you?). No real idea what time we'll be heading back south since there are so many factors beyond my control...
        
        Happy decorating!
        
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        Tentativeplotfinder
        
        26/05/2007 @ 18:21:04
        
        Happy travelling - I may well still be with Morpheus at 5.00 a.m., but it's never predictable! I would hope I am.
        
        Back to the next bit of decorating.. ceilings had it's first coat, just about to do the same for the walls, then will call it a night.
        
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        Usksider ^Pro
        
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        26/05/2007 @ 18:27:45
        
        Good lord, you're a hive of industry you are.
        
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        Tentativeplotfinder
        
        26/05/2007 @ 20:04:09
        
        At the moment, yes.
        
        It covers up the fact I'm really and truly very lazy!! So, when I'm having inactive spells, I seem to get away with it, on account of these exessively active periods of time.
        
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        Usksider ^Pro
        
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        27/05/2007 @ 01:32:50
        
        Well that's a cunning plan...
        
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- hazgeoff ^Pro
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- 26/05/2007 @ 09:13:03
stick to your guns I get mega peed off with speeders and the like, the national press supports them with it's campaigns against speed cameras. Dont speed no fine simple or what.
- - Tentativeplotfinder
  - 26/05/2007 @ 16:37:12
  Thank you... all this support is very helpful!!
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