Good turnout, shame it got dark and a bit nippy so quick.
Also nice to meet a new local member from Southend, shame i forgot your name mate (i’m terrible with names) but hope you had a good time.
Just wanna get 1 thing of my chest first though, as when i arrived last night Pete in his Laguna arrived just after me and started shouting that i drive like a c*nt because “i was trying to undertake him at a roundabout and beeped at him”.
I said you was in the wrong lane mate but you denied and i left it with that as i didn’t want to have an argument.
But as i drive over Sadlers Farm on a daily basis (i come from Southend, an my girlfriend lives on Canvey, plus is it part of the area i cover in the ambulance) i know the roundabout quiet well.
I’ve taken this image from Google earth to show you what i ment :
http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/8307/28145701.jpg
http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/9642/95881780.jpg
Looking at the second picture, we were both coming from the right of the screen.
Lane 1 (the far left lane for us) goes to Canvey only.
Lane 2, the lane i was in says “A13 only”.
Lane 3, the lane you was in, the far right lane, is for turning right at that roundabout. As you can see you can still go onto the A13 by taking the first exit at the next miniroundabout.
But i was in lane 2, following the line of lane 2 to go onto that sliproad to enter the A13 when you came from lane 3 and wanted to take that sliproad i was taking (as it states on the actual road in big letters that is what that lane 2 is for).
So you cut me off mate, hence i beeped at you.
Then as soon as we were on the A13 i just overtook you again, i didn’t make eyecontact or show a fist or anything, despite beeing annoyed about beeing cut off.
Though i didn’t appreciate beeing shouted at when i wasn’t the one in the wrong.
I didn’t try to undertake you at the roundabout, you was in the wrong lane and cut me off. You should have been in lane 2 if you wanted to go onto that sliproad and not in lane 3.
Anyway, no hard feeling though i hope.
I’ll start uploading the photo’s from the meet and will post them up soon.
Karim