I had some twit try to jump into a parking spot I was backing out of. I got out and explained to her and her gang of seagulls that my van is made of steel and iron, while hers has all the structural integrity of an M&M.
And yes, her car would fit into my van quite easily.
Hope you took your sweet time and backed out very slowly! 
I was backing out of a space where the car next to me was parked at about a 15 degree angle towards me and had a car waiting for my spot on the opposite side. I had to back out into him and he was not very appreciative. People don’t seem to look farther than their nose anymore. I keep getting passed by cars on the highway when I’m 12 feet behind the car in font of me, behind a whole train of cars… Where exactly are you going man?
It was funny seeing him try to get out of his car when he parked straight in too close to the wrong car though.
I think the truly special drivers are the white Audi A4/6 drivers. They’ve bought the Audi to feel empowered, but the fact it’s in factory white and has filament bulbs squashed into the space where the designers specified LED lamps shows that they’ve paid the bare minimum for it. Since they’re obviously trying to save money, they often travel without their lights on, and they never use their indicators for fear of one day having to spend 99¢ on a 15watt wedge bulb.
They also cruise everywhere in 4th gear, regardless of traffic conditions. Gotta make that tight spot on the off-ramp into standing traffic? Yeah, lets do that at 40mph in 4th. Not only will the engine love under-revving to the point of stalling in a F@%&^£ing DIESEL but you’re going to convince everyone else in the queue that you’re going to crash into that Ford Transit.
Oh, you did crash into that Ford Transit? And I’m sat behind you in the queue that’s now not going to move until the police arrive and instruct you to move your car? Well screw you!
I’ve been underwhelmed with the quality and quantity of Audi drivers lately, too. Seems like they’ve grown in number in the past couple years, but the average skill level has plummeted.
As an Audi (A4) driver, I can only say… mine’s not white 
Sadly that’s what happens when a car gets popular. It was the case with BMW (3 series) for long enough.
True that. By default, all BMW M-series drivers in the UK are white middle aged men, and all Q-series are the kind of mother who buys a five litre mega SUV in order to take her single child safely over the 6" kerb at the local nursery school.
And yet people wonder where our flying cars are.People can’t drive in two dimensions, why add another even more complicated dimension?
Make it even more confusing by throwing time manipulation in there…
“I want to be at 4.083.0890.08 at 15:38 yesterday” poof 4th dimension pileup
A fourth dimension pileup would probably result in the vehicles occupying the same space at the same time, which would produce an awesome explosion, on the same magnitude as an atom bomb.
We totally have to do this. The Central Motorway has needed rebuilding for years, this would finally encourage them! 
Even if I believed in time travel or teleportation, the potential energy of conjoining two masses within the same space is…
Well, let’s put it this way: I’m sure any survivors in the British Isles will have other priorities than rebuilding the Motorway.
On a slightly related topic, I think us Brits are still on top form with our tradition of scaring people shitless with our every-day PIFs (PSAs)… for example, here is some video from BBC Wales about the dangers of texting and driving: this is the shortened version as shown on TV at four and a half minutes long; it is also shown in schools as a 30 minute programme, which also occasionally shows on TV at night, that continues on after the helicopter lift with a hospital scene, several funerals, bullying, and basically showing how that one text message totally ruins everything for everyone. Cheerful!
Oh hey, you described my truck. 5.7L V8 Hemi. Oohhhhh yeah. Wish it was more, but that’s as big as they go. But as stated, I haul crap (literally, sometimes) and have been known to drive where roads are not present. Last big load I remember was about 25 40# bags of soil, 15 40# bags of manure, several bags of mulch, dozens of veggie transplants, some fencing, and an 8yr-old.
I love my Hemi powered Jeep Commander. It’s great for climbing 6" curbs and hauling ass through a foot of snow. I love it, that is, until I pull up to a gas pump. 15MPG in the summer that drops to 14MPG in the winter. It’s a good thing that gas has been cheap lately.
Oh I have nothing against people who own AWDs because they need them; my parents live out on a farm on the top of a hill best described as “inaccessible by all but hovercraft” as soon as it rains. Which it does a lot in England. What I do hate though is the number of people in the town in which I live, which is a sea-side town, built on nice flat land, where it rarely snows and there’s no mud on the road, who buy SUVs for the sole purpose of driving their kids to school. It’s a really, really bad craze here, and it’s led to such awful vehicles as the Land Rover Evoque and the Nissan Juke becoming popular here.
The Land Rover Evoque, by the way, might be getting removed from sale. A former minister for transport was asked to sit in one, as they lined up children from her own children’s primary school behind the car and asked her to beep the horn when she could see children. Twenty two children were able to stand behind the car before she could see them through that ridiculous rear window.
Also, @Road_Rash… 15mpg? Dude… ouch… I’m running a car that’s averaging about 60mpg (the book promised 70mpg but then I discovered that’s only if you buy ‘super’ unleaded and that shit’s expensive) and despite being a ‘city compact’ has actually performed admirably the few times I’ve had to drive her through a wet field. Filthy, but admirably. Like I say though, if you need the vehicle, that’s fine… I just dislike it when people drive them for fun…
My wife drives a 2006 VW Jetta diesel which gets 50MPG so it sort of balances out since she has a longer commute than I do. It’s not one of those that is involved the latest emission scandal since the emission regulations for diesel’s didn’t tighten until 2007 in the USA. Unfortunately, that means it spews the telltale black smoke when you get on the throttle, but hey, it still runs like a champ after 140,000 miles with hopefully many more to go. It’s a great little highway car.
I’ve always tried to have at least one AWD/4WD vehicle with good ground clearance for the winters in Wisconsin. Having one has saved my ass on those occasions where I need to get somewhere (usually home) in a major winter storm.
Oh man, I’ve driven a Jetta before and they’re probably one of the nicest cars VW have made since the Bora was cancelled for being too nice for German sensibilities or something. Tell her to take car of it!
It’s a fun car to drive. It does have the excellent road manners that German engineering is known for.
Before I had the Jeep, I had a 4WD Dodge Ram pickup truck with the same Hemi engine that got 12MPG. Large, gas guzzling vehicles are a common sight all over this country.
I get a good 16mph regularly. It’s not great, but when you consider that even if I bought a newer more efficient truck, this one is still in good shape and will be on the road for at least another five years. So I’m just lowering the number of vehicles being produced which is better for the environment and ends up balancing out. Yeah… And my parents drive a Prius.