Driving in Tunbridge Wells is a nightmare even at the best of times, with traffic stacked up on one side of town in Pembury, and through Southborough on the other side.
But the motorists you come across on an everyday basis can make an already bad situation even worse.
From the impatient drivers who beep as soon as the Grosvenor Bridge lights turn green to the mums in large 4x4s they can't manage, traffic in town is full of annoyances.
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Here are the types of drivers you'll find around Tunbridge Wells.
The noisy motorbikes
We hear it from the Kent Live office windows every day – loud motorbikes screeching down Calverley Road, obviously on their way to somewhere very important.
It's not like we hate motorbikes, but could you tone it down, just a little bit?
(Let's be honest though, really we're all just jealous that you can zoom round the huge queues on St John's Road so quickly.)
The impatient ones…
Some people really are in a rush and you just can't move quickly enough for them.
We get that Tunbridge Wells is a busy town to drive through, a seasoned Sunny Tunny commuter really should have left more time for the journey, shouldn't they?
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But if you don't pull away from the green lights at Grosvenor Bridge within a millisecond, or you can't work out if a gap on Pembury Road is quite big enough for you to squeeze into, prepare yourself for some road rage.
… And the oblivious ones
But other times, you get the polar opposite. When, for once, you're feeling a little generous and decide that you're in no rush to get home, and you'll let someone out of a side road onto a forever queue in Pembury Road.
So you kindly wait… and it's like they never noticed you. Cue lots of beeping from the people waiting behind you, and you were only trying to be nice. Sigh.
Teenagers with overpriced, brand new cars
You've all come across them before – 18 year olds in shades who have just passed their tests, cruising around in a shiny new Jag with a '17 plate and Justin Bieber blaring out of the tinted windows.
They cut you up at roundabouts and stop in random places to pick up various girlfriends.
Don't allow your anger to show on the road though… they will soon whizz away from your direction, as you're driving too slow for the mean teens of Tunbridge Wells.
People who don't know what an indicator is
Funny isn't it, how people seem to forget indicators exist – particularly when turning left onto Grosvenor Bridge, which is just frustrating.
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And it's even worse when you're an unsuspecting foot passenger trying to cross a road and a car turns past you without warning. Terrifying.
Those who park on the pavement
There are the people driving around Tunbridge Wells who are so scared their car is going to be knocked they decide to park right up on the pavement.
All well and good when your road is double parked (like most residential areas in town), but there are some who take it too far and block the entire pavement.
Let's hope you aren't spotted by a mum with a buggy, or they won't be too happy…
People who stop on double yellow lines on Camden Road
Camden Road is busy enough as it is, but when you get vans, taxis and all sorts stopping on double yellow lines forcing you to drive round them in the most awkward of places, it can be infuriating.
People breaking the 20mph speed limit
It's a relatively new bugbear, but a bugbear nonetheless – it appears some people have completely ignored the new 20mph speed limit in the St John's area, and it's driving both residents and obedient motorists nuts.
Mums in 4x4s they can't manage
We've all had it – driving through the double-parked roads in Southborough you see a mum in a Range Rover hesitantly picking her way along.
You sigh, grit your teeth, and just pray there is a gap for you to move over into to make way for the car you could never afford… otherwise you're never getting out of there.
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