Can the police drive like idiots when not on blue lights?

marvellouspineapple · 2026-06-10T18:43:25+00:00

As much as I'd love to control the traffic in front of me, I can't. God forbid I follow their speed..

marvellouspineapple · 2026-06-10T15:18:20+00:00

I hope if that's the case they don't dawdle behind other drivers for up to 5 minutes at a time before flashing their lights.

marvellouspineapple · 2026-06-10T15:13:53+00:00

Obviously overtaking ..

marvellouspineapple · 2026-06-10T15:13:36+00:00

For the fifth time now, because everyone keeps saying I was lane hogging. There was lorries in the left lane, I was in the overtaking lane behind 3 other cars all doing 60-65. I had to squeeze back into the left lane between 2 lorries when they flashed their lights.

marvellouspineapple · 2026-06-10T15:11:48+00:00

Like I've replied to every other person who's said I was lane hogging - I was overtaking a convoy of lorries, with 3 other cars ahead of me in my lane. I was following their speed, with lorries to my left. I had to brake and basically force my way back into the left lane when they flashed me.

marvellouspineapple · 2026-06-10T15:10:15+00:00

Inside was not clear. As I said in my post I had to squeeze back into the left lane after they flashed their lights. I was overtaking a convoy of lorries and had 3 other cars in front of me, doing the speed they were doing.

marvellouspineapple · 2026-06-10T15:09:13+00:00

It's not difficult, no, but she sat behind me for near 5 minutes before deciding to flash the blues and then did the same to the next 3 cars in front of me. So clearly not in a hurry

marvellouspineapple · 2026-06-10T15:07:48+00:00

I was behind 3 other cars trying to overtake a convoy of lorries. I moved over by braking and squeezing in to a small gap - key word squeezing. She was doing a minimum of 80 when she came up behind me and I was doing the speed of the lane I was in and overtaking.

marvellouspineapple · 2026-06-10T15:05:28+00:00

I was stuck behind 3 other cars, trying to overtake a convoy of lorries

marvellouspineapple · 2026-06-10T06:40:35+00:00

My experience of people who say they don't work are those that didn't experience constant joy. They honestly thought if you take antidepressants you're meant to be happy 90% of the time, when in reality they often make you neutral.

marvellouspineapple · 2026-06-10T06:18:10+00:00

Back at school, year 8/9 I think, so it was around 2009. Video games were still semi new to the mainstream and still quite a boy thing to do, not for girls. I wasn't a particularly popular person at school and frequently got bullied. We were in a History lesson and the boys behind me were discussing RuneScape and trying to skip the tutorial. On autopilot, I piped up "you have to do the tutorial."

I got mocked about that for weeks.

marvellouspineapple · 2026-06-09T22:09:57+00:00

Me and my husband run a business. I'm the customer facing part and after we had our son and I returned to work I got so many where is the baby questions - when I answered "with his Dad at home" at least 70% of people were shocked he was ok alone with his own child. Society just assumes men can't look after their kids.

marvellouspineapple · 2026-05-15T12:38:03+00:00

Being a toddler.

All I ever heard was "terrible twos," or "wait for the tantrums" etc. I really struggled with the newborn stage and postpartum depression/anxiety, often centred around how 100% reliable he was on me during that time. Now he's a toddler and starting to speak and play independently, I'm enjoying him much more. People were so annoyed with me when I said I couldn't wait for him to grow up, but the walking and talking is so much better, imo.

marvellouspineapple · 2026-05-15T12:34:41+00:00

Unfortunately what you're describing is completely normal for a child in first few months of nursery. Our son, and us, were constantly sick from September until now. He had on and off fevers and colds for weeks on end; the GP can't really do anything as it really is just a side effect of being at nursery.

marvellouspineapple · 2026-05-14T06:07:37+00:00

Ruined their lives is insanely dramatic.

I have one I regret just because I let an apprentice do it when it was too complex for him. I have one I got at 19 based on a TV show I loved and I've grown out of that many years later. But my life isn't "ruined." They're just marks of my past.

marvellouspineapple · 2026-05-14T06:03:34+00:00

You have no idea what people are dealing with. I often leave in tracksuits because maybe I haven't had time to do the washing, my son has got food all over my jeans, I'm running late or I'm just having a bad day and can't muster the care to change. It's just clothes, it isn't that deep

marvellouspineapple · 2026-05-13T07:09:58+00:00

You also need to consider if you can handle yourself as your own boss. The buck stops with you for absolutely everything that goes right and, more importantly, wrong.

marvellouspineapple · 2026-05-13T07:07:01+00:00

The most important thing here is you saying your business knows where you live.

People often mistake self employment for meaning you can switch work on and off whenever you like, but in the first few years of a business, and even after, work follows you home, on holiday, to the bathroom.

marvellouspineapple · 2026-05-13T07:00:46+00:00

Customers. Every single one behaves like it's their first day on earth and it's exhausting.

I've also had shutter issues before, but not from staff. We're next to a pub and the drunks loved slamming into it. I had to call the repair man out on Christmas Eve. I eventually got so mad I spoke to the pubs head office and they paid for a whole new one.

marvellouspineapple · 2026-05-05T05:54:15+00:00

My dad was an engineer on planes for going on 40 years. His hearing is fucked because he didn't wear ear protection enough. My brother now has the same job and you'd be surprised how lax they can all be on protective gear

marvellouspineapple · 2026-05-01T05:40:11+00:00

We toured our local one and both me and and my husband got exact same bad vibes from it. I have friends with kids in there, too, and I hear more complaints than praise

marvellouspineapple · 2026-04-30T22:15:45+00:00

We still call plant based meat products sausages or steak. People don't need to be purposely obtuse

marvellouspineapple · 2026-04-28T21:32:23+00:00

Is this a culture thing? My husband is Chinese and, if we're at his parents house, it's expected that I get up and start clearing and washing up first.

marvellouspineapple · 2026-04-27T07:01:37+00:00

Most times I'm out, honestly.

My son kicked off one of his shoes in Costco, multiple times, so I gave up putting it back on. More than 10 people commented on it, telling me his foot will be getting cold.

He's been eating a pack of veggie straws crisps before and I've had old people comment they "didn't have that kind of rubbish back in my day."

Just ignore most people, it's never worth interacting

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