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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago
Titz Towers, North Notts |
I hate driving at night, mostly because I've got no night vision. I can't see sod all without main beam on, once I leave a town.
However, I struggle a bit with the light dipping etiquette. Do you do it as soon as you see someone coming, 20 miles down the road, do it when they get close, or follow their lead? If I do it too soon, I can't see anything and worry about a buffalo having stumbled into the road. Admittedly, not that common near Mansfield, BUT it only has to happen the once to mess your day up.
I get dead aggrieved if I dip my lights early and they leave theirs on main beam. I want to flash nincompoop at them in morse code using my headlights, but it's not easy with one hand on the wheel, the other over my eyes. Waiting till they get close, is nerve wracking. Sometimes it becomes a battle of wills seeing who dips first. It's like the shoot out in the good the bad and the ugly, except you've got one hand on the wheel and the other shielding your eyes from the glare and another trying to calm down the person in the passenger seat. Never ever try to win one of these battles with a combine harvester on the move. One, I've got a Yaris and peddling as fast as I can, I really rely on the other person to close the distance and with a combine, they take for fucking ever to get close. Two, they've got about 30 lights on the front. It's like a scene from a Sci Fi film of a UFO landing in the arse end of nowhere, Kansas. At least if it is some boy racer, they're doing 90 and close the distance sharpish.
You get people telling you how dangerous it is keeping your main beam on. Not because you might cause an accident, most people just think fuck the other guy, he's being a dick keeping his main beam on longer than you. No, this is something we have facebook to thank for. This is the peril of gang initiations. There's an urban myth that gets shared on facebook every few months about gangs doing initiation activities. One of which involves driving with their lights on full and then shooting whoever flashes them to tell them. Never mind the fact that there is no recorded incident of this in Britain, America, or even the whole universe, you still get arseholes warning you of it. You get a lot of gang initiations in the fuck end of the sticks, don't you? Knowing my luck, I'd get shot at for having my lights on full by a disgruntled buffalo. Chances are about the same.
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