15 Nov 05
BSM Driving School Soapbox
I have a list of annoying things: items, places, situations, and people who annoy me. At the top of the list, (above Jade "Is East Anglia abroad?" Goodie), is the bane of my driving life, the irritation that one day might drive me to drink, drugs and cheap hookers... BSM Driving School.
Not even the hate spitting bile that I feel when ever that pointless, shambling, turd covered ape Pete Doherty appears on my television can compare to my total and utter contempt I have for the BSM driving school, that if bird flu ever gets to the UK I hope to goodness that the infected birds are attracted by the stupid four sided "learner" pyramids that the BSM cars have on their roof and infect the instructors and students.
The apparent insistence the instructors to take their pupils on their first lesson onto busy main roads, in the rush hour. The girlfriend and I were driving to college one afternoon and we got to the Clockhouse Roundabout, one car behind the front. The car in front was a BSM car. We were already running late, and so I got a tad annoyed when the BSM car didn't move forward, even though there were no cars coming. We waited, and waited, and still nothing happened. I couldn't get past them because there was now a cue of traffic behind me and I couldn't reverse to get out. I honked the car horn once or twice to alert the moron in the BSM car that getting the hell out of the way would be a wise move. The instructor of the BSM car got out, walked to my car, leaned in the window and started to shout at us. I sat back and let girlfriend do the shouting back as she is better at this sort of thing then me. But it was pretty clear that he had got a student in the car that simply had no idea how you drive. That's fine, I don't have a problem we people that don't know how to drive, I didn't know how to drive before I learned. What annoys me is that you don't let someone who can't drive on a busy road. It's the same school of logic that says "don't give Michael Jackson a job at a primary school".
Its not the first time that I have been inconvenienced by BSM cars- the top speed these things seem to be able to muster is somewhere around 15 mph in a 30 zone, (10 mph in a 40). Around Farnborough Tech it is quite normal to see hundreds of BSM cars practicing reversing around a corner, and three point turns on BUSY THROUGH ROADS!!! Please, I beg you, if you ever come into possession of some molotov cocktails lets you and me both go and find their head office?