3 words about cabbies

I was just tagging in response to 6c old bird (henceforth 6COB, since he has never intro his own name) little comment about cab drivers.. and ... and I'm just so *arghs* about them that I HAVE to post about them. I've resisted so long against complaining abt cabbies.. but no more! ogay. again comments here are personal and general and of cse there may be exceptions k k so if ur fave bro/sis/mum/dad/uncle/aunty/granny/grandaddy happens to be a cab driver I dun mean to insult them ok!

For people who should have so much driving experience, they really have either bad driving skills or attitude!

1. Quite a few of them hog the right lane on major roads and expressways; they are going so slow why not just go on the middle lane and let the faster cars pass on the right lane?

2. Another important point is the way they change lanes. Quite a few cabs actually put me in situations of significant danger or inconvenience due to bad lane changing. either they dun care or have really bad speed + distance judgement,

For eg one time.. on an expressway.. i was cruising smoothly at quite a high speed on my own lane..there's no car in front or behind of me in my lane. All of a sudden this cab from the left, without signalling, switched into my lane, right in front of my car! And he was like crawling at 50 kmh!!! I was omg blare my horn, shine high beam lights, and jam my brakes all the way.. he did this abt 10m in front of me so there was barely enough time to react. I almost smashed right into him... what anIDIOT! it was so dangerous. I was going so fast, he shouldn't have cut out, without signalling somemore (even signal also cannot make it, our relative speeds are too different; driving sense tells you that you must match the speed of the cars on the lane you wanna change into).
And he should have seen me on his wing mirror (he prolly didn't check or didn't care, the stupid fool) he could have wait for me to pass since there were no cars behind me and he was way slower than me. idiot. As i driver i always look 10 cars ahead of and behind me when i drive and assess the situation properly, like who's fast who's slow and what their intentions are(like going to filter, turn left or right ahead etc etc)

many other incidence of this nature always happpen; eg another time on lornie road the exact same thing happened; i pressed my horn all the way as he happily swerved in front of my (rather fast)car while he was travelling so slowly. yes i could brake in time and slow down to avoid hitting him, but why'd he do that even when i was horning continuously at him? he can simply quit his lane changing and go back to the slower middle lane. and there's no car behind me so he can change out to the right lane when he's behind me. it makes sense cause i'm going fast and he's slow. I suspect that they have a bad attittude and just couldnt care. UGH. Anyways in this case I simply slowed down, and switch to middle and then to the left, accelerated again and overtook the vehicle on the middle lane and switched back to the right lane, IN FRONT OF THAT STUPID CAB. He's that slow. so why cause me that inconvenience? He should have let me pass before cutting out. And I was nice enough not to jam my own brakes and cause him the same inconvenience.

3. really bad spatial judgement. as i drive behind cabs , I noticed that on viaducts/ tunnels/anyplace with railings immediately on the left or right or the road, many cabs on either the right or left lane will begin to straddle lanes. Half the cab will be on the right lane, the other half on the centre. because the cabby is so scared of the tunnel/viaduct wall.
DUH what lousy drivers. the cab is a small vehicle that fits nicely into one lane (* with lotsa empty space on the left and right to boot) it isnt as if its a BMW 7, or a bus ( even a bus fits nicely into one lane) so if they keep to their own lane and drive PROPERLY, they will never hit the wall on the left or right! for the simple reason that the wall doesnt cut into their lane duh. I mean i can drive along curvy lornie road at 130kmh and keep my vehicle at an almost constant 5-10 cm from the right kerb(so i give more space to the lousy drivers on the centre lane), why cant they keep their cabs on the the proper position within a lane when they drive at a slow 70 kmh?
And since they are so scared or lack the skill, travel in the middle lane lah! they are already straddling half of it anyway, might as well be considerate and take the middle lane so I can speed on in my right lane

4. They have really bad attitude.
Ok the reckless lane changing and cutting into my path was bad, but in the last few years that I drove it wasn't that bad. I didn't have to use my horn all that much.
But recently, my bro just got his license. So I put some P plates on my car to let him drive. Heh so that when things got really worse.. many cabs try to cut into my lane and bully me on the road. DUH WHAT COMPLETE STUPIDITY. I've had abt 7 years experience and will NOT let these stupid cabbies do that...they wanna cut me? Forget it. and so since the P plate has been put up, i've had to use my horns very very often.. like at least once a day. This shows how the evil cabbies like to bully newbies.

I always give way to P plate and L plate drivers, cos they are new and need the space. Nowadays I never give way to cabbies.

5. the final straw is this hit on phoebe's bum. the errant cab driver actually refused to pay me a small amt of cash ( i was asking for just a small amt of abt 90$) to cover my costs if i let my super efficient and cheap mechanic do it. She(the cabby) was going like "aiyah xiao di(yes i always get that when i'm in t shirt and berms) its just a small scratch you pay your own repair costs ok, see my cab is also damaged(of course since my car is harder than teh cab.. it was more badly damaged)"

I was like ...why shd i pay if its not my fault?? The cabby was tailgating me on a rainy day, its too bad her reaction/brakes are bad. So my gas is that she thought I was young (looks young lah and got P plate somemore) so easy to bully. Ah well. so i simply went to claim against her insurance company. Now the appointed mechanic is so much more expensive.. and actually stripped the entire bumper (its just a small scratch actually) I think it will cost the cab co's (insurance co) about 10x more. and what my usual mechanic takes abt a day to do, they have already took about a whoole week!!!

my losses due to inconvenience.. i dun even wanna talk about it. what? like today is a saturday and i didnt even go out (no car) and just stayed at home to blog. ugh.

3 words for cabbies: CANNOT MAKE IT.