does que skipping deserve a full on verbal abuse from another driver? 'f' ing and jeffing for pulling in front of a stationary car in a que? just interested to know others view! i personally think a flash of the lights or a hoot on the horn is abt for such a manover!
2006-09-26 23:42:37 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Commuting
Hey, even if other drivers are inconsiderate, aggressive, or whatever, you only have to put up with them for a minute or two, they have to be who they are all the time. If they want to be the kind of person that jumps queues, cuts people up etc, forget it, they aren't worth worrying about. Just hang back and take it easy. And sometimes you'll be the one who gets in the wrong lane, then you'll be glad other people see it this way.
2006-09-27 00:02:09 · answer #1 · answered by Sangmo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hate queue jumpers too...
Back in 1969 I was driving on the A5 in the Shrewsbury area. There was no bypass in those days and queues would build up at the many traffic islands around the town.
One Sunday in summer the jams were really bad, and we were all crawling along in the heat (though I had a convertible MGA at the time so didn't feel too bad), when 'flash Harry' in a 'slope window' Ford Anglia with a big silencer (of course!), came roaring past the long line of traffic, driving stupidly betwen the stationary and on-coming traffic. .
Unfortunately for the Anglia driver a policeman was standing on a Keep Left sign base, just short of the next island. The PC made the Anglia driver stop his car in that spot and wait while the huge queue of traffic passed. I bet he was there for an hour or so.
That was a far more effective punishment than a booking, because not only did the driver lose hundreds of places in the jam, but he had to suffer the humiliation of drivers comments.
Don't you wish the police were willing to do that sort of thing these days? But you'd have to find a police officer first, of course...
2006-09-27 04:05:38 · answer #2 · answered by avian 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Queue jumping is a bit anoying but it shouldn't provoke such an outrage. Simply because if the driver has got that angry then they aren't in the right frame of mind to be behind the wheel of a car. Once you lose your temper you will not ba able to give the road your full attention. After all the only thing worse than someone cutting into a queue in front of you is letting it get to you. Why let somone elses inconsiderate selfish behavoir turn you into a bad driver?
2006-09-26 23:55:54 · answer #3 · answered by PETER F 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it deserves what truck drivers do when they straddle two lanes and block the road to queue jumpers.
Trying to get the the front of the queue merely slows everything down, and the idea that it is better to fill two or three lanes rather than one, is simply wrong.
A single-lane may slow traffic down earlier and cause longer tail backs, but a single line will move twice as fast as two, and three times faster than three....it's all to do with water flow in pipes.
The world is full of hyper-active idiots who "think" they can get there faster by queue-jumping and lane swapping, but all it does is make the large trucks go slower, which then slows everyone down.
Patience is not a virtue, it is a necessity in these situations.
2006-09-30 05:51:15 · answer #4 · answered by musonic 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If some overtakes on the wrong side of the road and pushes in at the front of a queue then they deserve the wrath of other drivers!
However, I often see drivers queuing like sheep in a single line when the road splits into 2 lanes. This causes unecessary delay and longer tail backs. In this situation I think it is fair for drivers to safely overtake and fill in the empty space.
2006-09-26 23:54:44 · answer #5 · answered by Furball 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes...
... I think a word or two in their `shell-like`should suffice in most cases, loud enough to humiliate them in front of their peers and spoken in such a manner as to make them feel like a naughty child, preferably without any four-letter invective! (It sounds so much better without swearing )
Only yesterday whilst turning left from a one-way street into the main road, a car came along, middle-old aged driver and three elderly passengers, just drove up the right hand lane, barged into the traffic and turned...left !
Unbelievably bad mannered, incredibly aggressive and totally arrogant.
I really ought to pose the question "Why is it always a Volvo?"
2006-09-26 23:59:22 · answer #6 · answered by Robert Abuse 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have to come clean and say that i am a queue jumper... its just that i drive a security van and to be honest i feel vulnerable sitting in queues for too long. also if i did not then it would not be possible for me to complete all of my deliveries in time.
whilst i am not in any way claiming that i think i am right in doing this nor indeed that i have any more priority than other road users im afraid its just had to become an accepted part of my working day.
finally i am not an agressive queue jumper i do not force my way in i always wait until someone is kind enough to let me in.
2006-09-30 15:41:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i hate queue skipping!!!!
On my way home from work, theres an island, 1 lane for straight on and right and another for left only. There is always queuing traffice in the lane for straight on/right yet people use the wrong lane to get closer to front thus slowing traffic to an almost standstill in my lane!!!!
I get really frustrated and call them all sorts of names but i dont see it as road rage!!!
2006-09-26 23:47:25 · answer #8 · answered by Mizz Julie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both behaviours are undesirable but the full-on verbal abuse is completely pointless, whereas the queue jumping at least achieves something.
2006-09-26 23:55:03 · answer #9 · answered by crosbie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its relative
queue jumpers bug me big time but there have been times when i have queue jumped.
i guess the worst kind of queue jumping is of the agressive kind or when its quite simply just plain old rude, which i hope i haven't done in the past
2006-09-26 23:51:58 · answer #10 · answered by MoJo JoJo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋