I rode my motorbike to the train station this morning in thick mist/fog. Visibility was down to 50 yards, with lights. If ever there was a need to use fog lights, it was today (of course, being on a bike, I didn't have any so the full beam headlight had to do). There was so much of it I had to wipe the fine mist off my visor every 100m just so I didn't end up on the other side of a hedge, arse over tits.
And what did I see along the way?
Sure, one or two had the sense to put their fog lights on. Some of the cars coming the other way had their headlights on, but I just could not believe the number of cars who went by me with no lights on, probably still half asleep. Worst of all, I think, was the BMW driver who obviously got in his car, saw the conditions, stopped for a moment to consider that dense fog was potentially dangerous.....and decided to do the 'sensible' thing and put his sidelights on just to be on the safe side. Seriously? WTF?
There should be some sort of intelligence test before they let people drive, because you could train a chimp to drive better than some of these numpties.
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