Has everyone in Galway just gone totally insane or something. I was going to write these as individual posts but I’d be here all day!
Right, where do I start. I suppose firstly I have to thank the woman in the white car going down the old Rahoon road yesterday morning who was with it enough to see what was happening. Had it not been for her I’d have been a goner!
I was going up the road to my parents & stopped to give a friend of mine a lift. I pulled off & thankfully I had not enough time to build up any speed when there was a junction on my left. I seen this white Toyota coming up to the stop line. He slowed & I thought he had stopped. How wrong was I! The woman in the white car seen what was happening & moved over to leave space for me to get into just as the idiot flew out over the line & drove up the road. I think there was smoke coming out of my tyres I was braking so hard. He didn’t even tip his breaks! I checked to see was everyone ok, the woman said she was & just had gotten a fright. I thanked her & then headed off up the road after the idiot. I flashed him to stop & got the shock of my life to see the man was at least in his mid 60s! He was all apologies but I have to admit I let fly at him. I asked him did he not know that there was crashes at that corner every day! I also told him he was lucky if I didn’t give his number to the Gardai.
When I got to my mothers I could hardly get in the gate. My leg was shaking so much I couldn’t even press the accelerator. Thankfully Marcio (my friend) calmed me down. I just couldn’t believe what had happened.
I had a few more idiots yesterday but none as bad as that. Then came this morning. Oh my! They were really out in force this morning.
I had a short enough journey across town this morning but it started as it meant to go on. I pulled out of my estate behind a car & thought nothing of it at first, then I realised it was a breaker. You know the ones. There is a car 1/2 a mile up the road so the breaks get slammed just in case it comes anywhere near her! & before you ask, no there were no L plates!
Thankfully they weren’t in front of me for long. Then I got the most gobsmackingly stupid driver in front of me. Going down Bishop O’Donnell road at at least 20mph she took both hands off the wheel to adjust the visor so it was to her right because the sun was glaring in. Ok, that was bad but she just kept going. No hands on the wheel because they were both now fluffing up her hair. At the same speed!!!!! Then comes the make-up application. Oh ya, I forgot to say that in this time she had got her rear view mirror & turned it totally towards her so she could check to make sure she was looking her best for the ambulance men as they cut her out of her car! This continued out to the lights on the Quincentennial Bridge. Where she proceeded to play with the child in the back seat. Yes! I’m serious! She was in a maroon Peugeot. You know who you are.
After that I was going out the Headford road & there was a woman in a big black Audi who couldn’t understand why she couldn’t just use both lanes when I was right beside her back tyre! Ahhh, no thanks, I want to keep my bonnet for some stupid reason! Things weren’t too bad until I got to the roundabout at Briar Hill! To the woman in the black Merc, IT’S A 2 LANE ROUNDABOUT! Not 3!!!! For some idiotic reason she squeezed between myself & the car beside me! We had no choice but to let her go. She sure as hell wasn’t stopping! They should all go get a copy of the rules of the road book!
As for the twit this evening at Cooks corner in the Chav Wagon… I’ll leave her for another post! 
Sorry for the long rant, but they have gone insane in Galway the last few days. I know there’s Crypto in Clarenbridge, but I don’t think that can even be blamed for all this stupidity on our roads!
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Sounds like any given day for me.Last friday i saw a truck driver on the ballincollig bypass with a phone in his right hand and a bar of chocolate in his left.Its ok though,he was steering with his elbows and it was only a 40 foot artic,nothing too big.
It's all about reading the road better. Expect the unexpected. Learn to read other drivers and be prepared. You cannot change people or their driving habits, but you can change your attitude and approach to driving. Be practical. By getting emotional and taking it personal you are not in a proper frame of mind to drive or manoeuvre your vehicle to react to the hazards presented to you.
Strangly sham rogue having grown up a truckers daughter that doesn't shock me. But this woman had a young child in the back seat. That's what really shocked me. She was willing to put her child's life in danger just to tart herself up.
Langer firstly If I wasn't able to read the road I would have been taken out at least 3 times in 2 days. I don't see how this has become about my attitude to driving, I was stating what had happened. Simple. They were idiots, I seen them coming & didn't become another statistic of our roads! I'm not "getting emotional" or "taking it personal", just stating what happened.
i live in derry and was waiting to cross at traffic lights. the green man came on and just as i was about to cross the road a big lorry drove through the red light. i called him some nice names but imagine my shock when a fellow pedestrian pointed out that it was an instuctor teaching someone to drive. if the instuctors are doing things like this there is no hope for the rest of road users.