I'm so embarrassed to be a car driver.

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Mavis Cluttergusset

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Today, whilst driving home, I encountered the most beautiful pair of grey horses (possibly spanish - not sure) pulling a really old and beautiful wedding carriage, with the driver in top hat and tails. The horses were on a very bendy single track (with passing places) road and were trotting very smartly along at 10mph ish. I was car no 4 behind them. Eventually, due to other cars turning off or pulling over, I was behind them. The car behind me was weaving back and forth into the middle of the road behind me, flashing and indicating as if to overtake. Not entirely sure what they thought I would do, since there wasn't room for two cars side by side on the road, let alone a car and a pair of trotting horses and a wide carriage. At several points the car was attempting to force its way alongside me to try to intimidate me into pulling over, but my car is a volvo and it is against a volvo's religion to drive on the side, volvos feel more at home in the middle of the road, so thats where I stayed.
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I would have passed the carriage at a point when it was safe but I was b*ggered if I was going to squeeze by to save all of a few seconds until we hit the main road. The outside horse was also cantering sideways at several points which didn't look hugely tempting to pass. When we got onto the main road (after I had obviously successfully REALLY peed the car behind me off
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) I passed. The car behind me drew level with the horses and then waved something in the outside horses face whilst shouting at the driver, and continued to drive alongside the carriage until I rounded the bend and could no longer see them in my mirror.

What is wrong with people? Do they really have so little consideration for the safety of other people? It inconvenienced them for maybe 5 minutes. It was a loveky carriage and the horses were beautiful (and amazingly fit!)

So if you were the carriage driver, Im sorry I upset the car behind me, but maybe I stopped him (or her) from clipping your lovely horse as they forced their way past. If you're the car driver, I hope your ignorant attitude catches up with you. And I hope you dont end up upside down in a ditch somewhere, you appeared to be in such a hurry that your aggressive driving probably continued long after you'd vented your spleen at the carriage driver (and upset his horses).

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Well done you. OH and I do carriages for weddings and the majority of people are extremely good, but you will always get THE one.
 
Thats shocking. My OH gets a bit grumpy in the car when peopl in front are drivign , in his opinion, too slow.he whines and moans and it drived me bonkers. I always ask what the rush is and remind him that he really isnt being delayed much at all.
He would never do this with horses or any other animals though, he isnt that bad and is over cautious with horses as ive warned him so many times about how easy it would be for a horse and rider to get spooked and cause an accident.
 
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there are some right ingnorant tw@ts on the road, hopefully it will just be himself he totals and he wont take anyone with him!

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Second this, i hate people like this, if they want to kill themselves driving like dicks then thats fine, but dont involve others,sadly they nearly always seem to endanger the rest of us, makes me sick, people just drive too fast and angrily, and after my recent car accident where i broke my wrist and car was written off, i am even more aware of people driving badly around me, everyday i lose count of the idiots!
 
I've had more near misses whilst riding in the last 6 months than I've had in almost 30 years of riding on the roads close to where I keep my horse. All as a result of people driving too fast on country lanes. Folk just seem to have less patience and no idea of how easily a horse can be upset and what the consequences can be
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OH and I were talking about this, he was in a motorcycle accident last week, thebloke that pulled infront of him left drove off after asking if he was ok, yeah sure he is, hes on the floor, bikes smashed, cant think straight sure hes fine!!!!!

People kept driving over bits of the bike and only one person helped him up and to the side o f the road.

Ok so not quite the same but people seem to be impatient and thoughtless when it comesto be on the road these days
 
I used to do Horse drawn funerals. We'd often have Police escorts (generally in city centres like Manchester, London or Birmingham and the escorts were for very high profile ones) and even then you'd be amazed how many cars would screech past and then pull in in front of me (I would have to slow the Horses) and break up the funeral procession. We had a terrible accident at one. I was riding one of the lead Horses in a team of 4 and one of the wheel Horses (back ones) slid on the road and fell under the Horse next to her. Horse next to me started rearing (very very scary). This was in the middle of a main road in Mancester city centre, we were waiting to turn right. I managed to hold the one I was riding and the rearer (thank god for driving bits!!) but while the other groom was cutting out the fallen Horse people were driving past peeping horns, shouting abuse, shouting 'that horse is dead' (it wasn't even injured as it turned out just slid on those metal road crossing things) despite the hearse having a coffin in and the family following. It was awful. People have no respect.
 
Gas chambers, time for some twatnic and chavnic cleansing, getting sick and tired of arseholes being allowed on the road with what amounts to a lethal weapon, it's not just because of how they behave near horses on the road, it's the fact they they drive like this all the time and cant wait a minute for anyone anywhere, on the phone on the satnav up your backside at 70mph on a wet road, I could go on........
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Gas chambers, time for some twatnic and chavnic cleansing, getting sick and tired of arseholes being allowed on the road with what amounts to a lethal weapon, it's not just because of how they behave near horses on the road, it's the fact they they drive like this all the time and cant wait a minute for anyone anywhere, on the phone on the satnav up your backside at 70mph on a wet road, I could go on........
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I am so fed up with moronic driving I cannot begin to tell you. Stupid cock-knockers who can't wait 30 seconds to let you cross the road. AARRGGHH!! Like they want a horse on the bonnet of their car and a dead person on their lap. I just hope it isn't me next time...
 
If everyone drove open top cars, this simply would not happen. It is a ludicrous phenomenon brought about by people feeling isolated and distinct from other human beings. You rarely see motorcyclists behaving like this, as they are another minority road user. I am sorry to say if I am driving within the speed limit, and some driver (often in a van) is sitting on my tail, then I drop my speed to a few miles under the limit. The other sort of driver that I find infuriating is the 'permanent 40mph' driver, regardless of whether they are in a 30mph or 60mph zone. There are always ignorant fools who have no idea how unpredictable horses can be. Maybe more awareness of horses should be part of the driving test.
 
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