I wrote a little while ago about the ridiculous behaviour you get from some people on web forums. That last story concerned a forum know-it-all who likes to dissect posts claiming everyone loved him and respected him – even after he’s wound one of them up with his behaviour.
Well, the fun and games never stop! On the same forum recently, the administrator removed a thread completely (which they rarely do) because a certain person was trying to prove that every single instructor working for a large National School – which he repeatedly named - was incompetent and purposely employed to be that way (this is known as “libel”). The libel was based on this person’s extremely limited experience and intellect, and his inability to realise that the “half dozen or so” cars from that school he sees over a week are probably the same car most of the time, and represent perhaps 0.2% of the cars that that school operates nationwide.
That same poster has now gone off on one about how other motorists park and block the road. He said (punctuation – or lack thereof - is real):
I can add to this I parked in safe place at end of lesson with pupils first drive home we parked in safe place another car comes and parks opposite us. then 4 minutes later another car a peers beeping trying to get through. I did not get pupil to move the car or make any attempt to move the car myself I was in the middle of a serious conversation and lesson planning. he had to wait and right fully so was not our fault someone parked opposite us.
Isn’t that strange coming from someone who thinks that what he thinks he sees another school car doing applies to all cars from that school throughout the know universe? What does it say about his school, deliberately causing obstructions and annoying residents and passers-by?
You really do have to wonder how these idiots manage to stay on the Register of Approved Driving Instructors.
I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve got a pupil to pull over so we can do a turn in the road or discuss something, and another driving school car has stopped directly opposite us on largely empty roads. So there must be a lot of people like this guy around.