{"id":138,"date":"2008-09-05T18:37:42","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T16:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=138"},"modified":"2008-09-05T18:37:42","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T16:37:42","slug":"two-weeks-of-rain-in-one-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"Two Weeks Of Rain In One Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Had a day off today and went on business to Wiltshire. Coming back along the A346 between Ogbourne St George and Chiseldon (just south of Swindon) I was nearly killed by a complete pillock (didn’t get the number) overtaking at speed coming towards me in heavy rain. I had to slam on my brakes and stop to avoid a head-on collision. If that’d have been any of my pupils after passing their test I suspect they’d have been killed either by collision or running off the road down the embankment.<\/p>\n

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On the mp3 player today...<\/p><\/div>\n

Then just north of Stow-on-the-Wold on the A429 I was overtaken in torrential rain by a baby chimp in a black Volkswagen Golf (what else?) on that stretch of road where a whole family was wiped out by an imbecile overtaking in March<\/a> this year. About 20 minutes later I caught up with him and wondered why – he was driving like a total prat when I saw him the first time, so I hardly expected to see him again unless he was smeared across the front of a lorry. Then I saw the Police car in the queue of traffic in front… clever little chimp!\u00a0Once the Police turned off near Shipston-on-Stour he was at it again – and he caused an oncoming car to slow down as he nearly had a head-on with them\u00a0when he overtook three other vehicles in one go. The rain was so heavy at this point you could barely see more than 10 cars ahead.<\/p>\n

Finally, the motorway was absolutely solid due the weather and with it being a Friday. On eventually leaving the motorway I was on the junction roundabout (3 and 4 lanes wide, snarled up with traffic at 4pm) and an idiot in a white Inviron van (VD56 AJV<\/strong>)\u00a0in the left\/outside lane decided he needed to be somewhere else, and just tried to pull out in front of me. He was going to go whether I braked or not. He then managed to cross all four lanes in one go\u00a0and last I saw he was on the inside lane. God only knows how someone who drives a company vehicle can be such a poor driver he is\u00a0a)\u00a0four lanes wrong that close to where he needs to be, and b) so stupid that he changes lanes like this in these conditions!<\/p>\n

Still, all these examples are great for using with my pupils when I try to get them to understand what sort of pond life\u00a0they will have to deal with when they pass – and hopefully prevent them turning into pond life themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Had a day off today and went on business to Wiltshire. Coming back along the A346 between Ogbourne St George and Chiseldon (just south of Swindon) I was nearly killed by a complete pillock (didn’t get the number) overtaking at speed coming towards me in heavy rain. I had to slam on my brakes and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latestposts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t