Queue mentality
Nov 16th, 2007 by Tim Skipper
I do love upsetting queue mentality.
Whilst on the southern bypass the other morning a Police van came barrelling along the outside lane with its lights going, I move into a gap in the nearside lane and a woman in a TT roadster in front eventually does the same.
The Police van goes past, and I pull back out and accelerate back up to speed to take advantage of the nicely cleared road. Only TT woman thinks she has a right to still be in front of me, and attempts to pull out in front of me. But then she has to abort in order to not kill us both, but she has this look on her face that could melt bricks and is mouthing something at me which I expect isn’t very polite!
I jumped the queue. My bad.
This is why I think a lot of road rage occurs in this country. We are a nation of queuers, and the typical British driver considers a road to be one long queue. Dare anyone jump the queue, all hell breaks loose.