P plater, double lines, school zone - perfect for overtaking

[waynemorgan]

Hey,

Had a young lady P plater decide to overtake me in Luddenham this afternoon - on double unbroken lines - in a school zone around 3pm and then decide that half-way past me was far enough and a great time to move back into my lane. About 100meters later she brakes hard and turns right into a driveway - no indicators.

Is it just me or does a P plate add something to your driving skills that I missed out on? Invincibility? Seperate set of road rules? I know it adds about 50kph to your car but I didn't know about the additional extra benefits.

Good reminder to keep my eyes open and expect the unexpected.

Cheers,
Wayne

[robracer]

Yup, get used to it Wayne & allways......ALLWAYS be on gaurd

[Cwidova]

Yup, get used to it Wayne & allways......ALLWAYS be on gaurd

+1

[seiko1]

Was it in a suburb like Toorak? Was it a Volvo? Mercedes? BMW?
P is short for psychotic
Dunno what it's like now but in the Eighties that would have cost her a wingmirror

[zx-10r]

bloody red P platers! hehehe. Yes apparently if they cant see you by looking the other way, you will magically disappear (the girls are the worst imo )

[P4nza]

if only we were like the USA people... free to bear arms... then i would carry a double barrelled shotgun and blow the P platers shitty rims right off!! THEN TRY AND PASS ME AGAIN YOU BASTARGE!! lol!!

[6maniac]

Nurse !! Mr. P4nza's med's please !!!!!

[P4nza]

lol no meds required... its the sugar rush atm lol!!

[zx6rider]

"P" plates add a number of skills to a young drivers ability.
Skills such as "Stupidity" and "Invicibility", these 2 skills work together, the first allowing the "P" plate driver to do almost anything, and the second allowing them to have no fear of any damage occuring to them or their vehicle.

Another skill that is consistently found in "P" plate drivers is the "I Dont give a flying F#@K about anybody else because I am more important", this allows the operator of the vehicle to cut off, pull out in front of & overtake other vehicles in dangerous locations.

It is a well known fact that as we get older, these skills disapear, some times they disapear sooner than later and in other rare cases, they dont disapear at all!!!

[Ratmick]

Whilst tootling along at 80km/h in road works on the Princes Highway in Laverton years ago I was once overtaken by a p-plater who zoomed past speeding in the emergency breakdown lane during rush hour. I didn't see them coming and that was the last time I regarded the breakdown lane as safe territory.

...sorry to say it was a young woman with a pony tail, in a hurry with an aggressive attitude .

Normally stupidity in traffic is the young man's domain. I was saw a hero on a green ZX-9R on his back wheel in traffic on the same part of the Princes Highway.

Mick

[Strika]

A fuck off ya bunch of hypocrites! All kids drive like twats at that age! Think back to when you first got your licences! I bet you were no better! I know I wasn't! I was way worse! if it wasn't sideways it was parked!

[tim]

some idiot P-plater once overtook a HOUSE!! It was being moved on a huge truck, and he went onto the wrong side for a few hundred meters at about 3am on a major sydney road...... oh. ..... oh yeah, that idiot was me

[Ratmick]

I had Olympic Steelflex tyres on my first car, a Datsun 200B. As well as the most gutless car ever made (apart from the 120Y) they were the hardest tyres known to man. I did 50,000km on a set and they still looked new (on the other hand I just got rid of a set of Yokohamas last weekend that looked like they'd done more than that but actually had only done half that distance). They weren't bad in the dry but they were effing lethal in the wet. I went around a roundabout in Hoppers Crossing sideways years ago and neatly parked it in between two bushes on the exit. I did the same thing on Sydney Road in Brunswick hitting wet tram tracks and got some sideways action in between two parked cars. More arse than class in both situations...

Mick

[kevindinho]

phew luckily i'm still a L-plater.... we are the safest on the road muhahah

[Saki]

you cant just leave it to the P platers although i agree, but i see full licence people just doing queer shit all the time, cutting across roads and just cutting in, overtaking in car parks with people coming out, then they stick there hands up like its everyone elses fault.

That just makes me angry when people are impatient and swerving around, so i usually gives them an ear full!