{"id":5357,"date":"2011-07-30T06:44:38","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T05:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=5357"},"modified":"2011-07-30T06:44:38","modified_gmt":"2011-07-30T05:44:38","slug":"roadkill-waiting-to-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=5357","title":{"rendered":"Roadkill, waiting to happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am coming to loathe the A34.<\/p>\n<p>Stupid fucking car drivers who could not pass a test tomorrow if their lives depended on it.<\/p>\n<p>Inconsiderate bastard lorry drivers who block both lanes in a &#8216;rolling roadblock for miles on end&#8217; kind of way.<\/p>\n<p>And if you think this &#8216;rolling roadblock&#8217; is a minor gripe, let me tell you that yesterday &#8211; Friday 29th July 2011 &#8211; I was stuck behind such a rolling roadblock of inconsiderate bastard lorry drivers for JUST OVER EIGHT FUCKING MILES.<\/p>\n<p>Eight miles?<\/p>\n<p>Bastards.<\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s the car drivers who don&#8217;t actually know how to drive.<\/p>\n<p>These are the people who never check their mirrors to see if, you know, there&#8217;s anyone actually in the way of the\u00a0manoeuvre\u00a0they&#8217;re going to do, to see if they might actually kill someone, if that someone doesn&#8217;t take immediate avoiding action.<\/p>\n<p>These are the utter twats who believe that if they indicate they have, by God-given virtue of the power of that flashing indicator light, a full and total right to pull out (or pull in, they&#8217;re not fussy) in to the path of whatever traffic might already be there.<\/p>\n<p>These twats usually exercise this logic when they&#8217;re joining the &#8216;A&#8217;-road or motorway from a slip-lane.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&#8217;m indicating, you can see I&#8217;m indicating, therefore I&#8217;m fucking coming in there&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>You know the sort?<\/p>\n<p>Utter bastards.<\/p>\n<p>I have, lately, been spending significant amounts of time on the A34.<\/p>\n<p>And it seems that both directions of traffic on that road, on the stretch from Abingdon down to the A303, is frequently driven but utter idiots.<\/p>\n<p>Car drivers. Van drivers. Bus drivers. Lorry Drivers. Idiots, most of them.<\/p>\n<p>They are just roadkill, waiting to happen.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"590\" height=\"390\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mU2DqPKsHrg?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"590\" height=\"390\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mU2DqPKsHrg?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am coming to loathe the A34. Stupid fucking car drivers who could not pass a test tomorrow if their lives depended on it. Inconsiderate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}