The Anonymous Widower

Flash Cars Drive Me Crazy

This is the title of a piece by Nick Curtis in today’s Standard. Here’s an extract.

Why do people who own the most expensive cars not know how to drive? On the way to the Standard’s Kensington offices

I run the gauntlet of bankers’ wives in Chelsea tractors who make the morning commute feel like a video game as they mow down pedestrians, street furniture and small buildings.

This week I was on a bus that was held up three times by executive saloons performing kerb-crunching, bumper-nudging three-point turns.

I know the feeling. My bus today nearly had a serious altercation with a Mercedes 4×4 with the registration number, WF08 ATY. Let’s hope that when the driver wants to sell it, possible buyers see this and feel they don’t want to buy a car that’s been driven and possibly looked after badly.

Nick’s suggestion was a new wealth tax, whereby anybody seen driving  badly in a big expensive car should have to buy a Smart or a Skoda and give the price difference to the Exchequer.

it might be a deterrent to bad driving though, if when you got say six points on your licence, you had to drive round in a car say yellow with purple stripes, so that other drivers would know the twats to avoid. You’d certainly see them when crossing the road.

August 31, 2012 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel | Cars, Driving, Tax