This morning found Mrs H and I tootling down our road having set off on a car trip to a local garden centre. At the junction with the main road into town, we had a very restricted view of traffic coming from the right due to parked cars. Many drivers approach the junction at excessive speed too, but we're used to coping with that.
About fifty yards down the road into town we had to slow right down for a car coming towards us on our side of the road. He'd been parked on our side of the road facing oncoming traffic but when driving off he had hopelessly misjudged his attempt to join the traffic flow away from town.
Coming back from the garden centre on the A38 we watched a queue of traffic build up in the right hand lane as one lorry spent ages trying to overtake another on the dual carriageway. Eventually he gave up but tried again on the next hill. We're used to seeing that though.
It's just an impression and maybe it's an aspect of old age, but driving standards don't seem to be improving.
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