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french drivers ?

I am more than aware that most countries have their fair share of lunatic drivers, I think, here in France, we have more than our fair share. I have been driving and parking here now for about 15 years, and the utter stupidity of some people still manages to amaze me. 

Yesterday, I drove Herman the camper van for about 3 hours in both directions to get the window fixed, all went well by the way, they did a grand job, better than new now. EVERYBODY just had to overtake, no matter what speed we were doing, the camper van is no slouch, with a big turbo diesel engine fitted. Don't get me wrong, nothing wrong with overtaking in principle, but not on blind bends or whilst there are double white lines down the middle of the road, boy racers you expect, we saw one of their cars vertical at the side of the road yesterday, (still trying to work out how they managed that) but you don't expect young mothers with their children overtaking or driving dangerously, I'm afraid it's quite a common occurrence most days whilst I am driving my Fiat Panda. Because it's a Panda people just have to overtake, no matter what speed I'm going. IDIOTS

Parking is just as much a problem here, especially in supermarket car parks, the designers of these places still believe everyone still drives Renault 4 or Citroen 2CV size cars, the spaces are all far too small for the 4 x 4's people drive today, and as such, this is where you receive the dings and bangs around your car. Someone bashed our new Rover a few days ago. ARSEHOLES.

I was once  sitting in my car in a supermarket car park, a few years ago, and  heard a car screaming in behind me, it was in fact, an old van driven by an old boy and his wife as passenger, it didn't slow down as it turned at the end of the row of cars and at the same speed, turned again, with a screech of tyres into a vacant space, well, not quite. (I think the old boy must have thought his eighty odd year old wife might be giving birth and mistaken the supermarket for the hospital). It actually managed to hit both cars, one each side of him and straight into the car in front of him, so hard it was moved backwards about a foot. Well, they both got out, expecting them to inspect the damage that they had caused, I watched closely as the wife inspected the front of their old van, whilst the old boy was too busy searching for the shopping trolley, she didn't even give a glance towards the other vehicles and after she had decided that the damage to their van was nothing much to worry about, she joined her husband in the great shopping trolley hunt. The three car owners were very grateful that I had witnessed the incident, and I hope the van driver had to pay up for his unsocial behaviour.

Why are some people like that?    ARSEHOLES.