What makes you ask, and before I answer, where are you from ?

Just curiousMy Dad was born in Horbury just outside of Wakefield

Do I remind you of him?

Maybe a little
though he taught me that you can always tell a Yorkshire girl..
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usually until your blue in the face

Boom boom...

(born in Guisborough!)

Cars hitting you in the boot is there problem not yours. Maybe pulling over and let the car overtake you may have been a better option.

Since you say you were driving to work which I assume you have driven a few times. Therefore, you should know the road and therefore where the speed changes are. So you SHOULD have slowed down.

I agree with him, no worries

Paternal Grandparents: Grandfather born in Guisborough, Grandmother born Redcar. Father born Horbury [Wakefield]

I'm a Lincolnshire yellowbelly, same as my Mother

Anyway back on topic:
We've adapted to driving here now, living in a rural area we kind of just take it easy. We're probably the Sunday drivers that drive others crackers.
We drive into Gympie almost every day for work, the journey takes about 15 mins. Now during that drive there is only one overtaking lane, the rest of the highway is twisting & turning, for the most, it's solid white lines down the middle. Almost daily we have some lunatic overtake us in a line of traffic, total disregard for the solid lines or any oncoming traffic. They gain about 5 or 6 cars having scared the oncoming drivers witless before forcing their way into a non existent space. The potential danger lost on them in their rush to get ahead. The irony is time after time we pull up two or three cars behind them at the first set of lights. I can't help thinking why risk everything to get there 10 seconds earlier?

Or not at all.


Most of our fatals here on the Gold Coast are out on the country roads, we seem to have had a motor bike fatality almost every week lately. Drivers do get frustrated if they feel someone is holding them up, and they take the most ridiculous risks to themselves and others, to gain no time as you say.

( Its not just the Yorkshire women you know "You can tell a Yorkshireman - but you cant tell him much". I know lots of people from Redcar)

You seem to be sure of a lot of things that are wrong

I couldnt help myself, this bone has got so much meat on it looking at the number of posts

And then I get called a parrot, " blah, blah, blah" for not reading them all

I think I will give up on it like a lot of others have done, the bone is starting to smell a bit.

Took the words right out of my mouth!

Actually I said parrot fashion because you were just repeating what others had said. Cos you know parrots repeat things.

and they all lived happily ever after
the end

And headed off into the sunset at a safe and sensible speed

did i not lock this thread?
dementia setting in