INDICATING

Those folk who manage to find their indicator and then forget to switch the damn thing off!

My dad used to say 'never believe what that indicator says - the driver could be a complete idiot!'

Ah but littleflo they are not smoking because there is a posse of children in the back. So that's all right then.

I do not think you should expect people to indicate while driving, it is very dangerous when you have a mobile phone in one hand, a burger in the other and a laptop on your knees. Any way if you are driving behind someone you should know in advance when they are going to turn, brake or undertake.

Thank goodness I no longer drive.

In times gone by, it used to be Jaguar drivers who had the right to do what they liked, but I suppose these things go with fashion. My father, who later in life became a minister, used to say that he needed to be extra careful while driving on a Sunday, because people who had been to church felt that they had got divine dispensation to ignore traffic laws.

According to DH Mercedes drivers don't have to indicate at all and have a God given right to dominate the outside lane (we have a Nissan).

When giving way to drivers in narrow roads I find that men drivers nearly always acknowledge the courtesy with a raised hand or a flash of their lights: women hardly ever.

I was coming out of a supermarket car park. The lady in her car in front of me was in the middle of the road indicating right so I pulled to the left side to turn left. YES she turned LEFT right across me.

Yes Aka, in my experience it usually is men. I sit in my car shouting, "what are you waiting for, an invitation"?

It makes me cross that some people think that they can park on double yellow lines as long as they leave their hazard lights flashing! In my village there is a fish and chip shop on a busy crossroads, where people do this right outside the door, even in the rush hour, causing major problems.

All of the above plus at roundabouts so many people don't seem to know that the car approaching on the right has right of way. I have sat tentatively at roundabouts wondering if the car, stopped, obviously not knowing his Highway Code, is in fact going to make a sudden move onto the roundabout or should I just go for it!

The people who really bug me are the ones who think parking rules apply to everyone but them! There is a zebra crossing at the top of our road which quite often has a lorry delivering bread to the Co-op parked right across it.

And is it mainly men d'you think?

YES!!!

All of the above plus the ignorant drivers who zoom up the lane that half a mile back was signposted as being closed off and then push in at the front of the lane that's queuing

phoenix I could not agree more. Also one way does not apparently mean that in my local Waitrose so I have to be extra careful because some idiot wants to save 10 seconds driving by going the wrong way down a one way street.

I do wish that drivers would also realise that pedestrians too need to know where the drivers are going! Supermarket car parks have become a real danger zone!

And what really bugs me is that some cyclists think that glancing over their shoulder is the same as indicating that they intend to turn!

I'm always amazed at the number of large expensive cars that are apparently sold without indicators! Obviously an optional extra

It happens a lot in our village. Drives me mad as well. Sometimes I think I am driving an invisible car!

Especially as you don't have to wind the window down and wave your arm about anymore.

Just the job on a freezing cold night wasn't it, you wound the window down and the car either froze up or the windows steamed up.

Even worse when they start indicating on the slip road but actually intend to take the second left hand turning off the roundabout...

They must think we're all mind-readers!

Drives me bonkers too when I wait for a driver to come over the roundabout only to find they are turning left and I could have gone! An offence all too frequent in this town.

When we lived in Aberdeen we always reckoned that it was the worst place in the country for not indicating. Yes, it's infuriating, both when you're driving and also when you're a pedestrian, as you need to know if a car is coming round the corner before you cross (pedestrians have right of way? Aye, right.) I sometimes point in a meaningful way at an indicator which has not been used, as if there is something wrong with it (well, there is) and that sometimes earns a worried look from the careless driver. It's not as if it costs you anything to use indicators or lights when it's getting dark, come to that!

You must have got quite a fright, Nonu. Have a !

Yup, annoys me too.....also the ones who only just indicate as they make the manoeuvre....its supposed to be an indication of what you are going to do....not what you are doing.