driving

[zebo-the-fat]

I have been driving since I was 19 years old, I'm now 60 (an official old fart!) I average around 5000 miles per month for work plus my own private driving. So I consider myself to be fairly experienced, I still make stupid mistakes, and so does every other driver. The actual process of driving becomes automatic but in a strange town, where you don't know the roads... things can happen, like you want to drive straight on at traffic lights, then find you are in a left turn only lane but didn't realise because road markings were covered by the vehicles in front, if traffic is heavy you may not be able to change lanes, so just turn left and try to work your way back to the road you should be on. There are the occasional idiot on the road, like "white van man" yesterday, I was driving at the legal limit in the middle lane of the motorway, overtaking slower traffic in the inside lane, this nutter came racing up behind me flashing his lights. When he realised I was not going to break the speed limit for him, he pulled out, raced past me and cut in front of me, missing me by what felt like inches, then he sat in front of me for a couple of miles. All that effort and he gained one car length. Why??
The best advice I got when I started was "Treat every road user like an idiot, including yourself!"