Everyone has at some point been a victim of the cursed middle lane driver.

(If you are that middle lane driver, please pull over to the lane closest to the hard shoulder. It really is the best place to drive and if, heaven forbid, you actually need to overtake someone, your car probably has a wonderful gadget called an indicator or a turn signal. You can use the indicator, pull out into the middle lane and then pull back again when you have finished overtaking.)

Anyway, some middle lane drivers are so obsessed with the middle lane that they even choose to stop in the middle lane when they break down. I was fortunate enough yesterday to get stuck in a traffic jam caused by someone who managed to break down in the middle lane. I’m not sure how they managed this because there wasn’t a huge amount of traffic in front of the car so the car hadn’t just overheated and died. No, this wonderful example of middle lane mentality had realised that the car was starting to give up and rather than using the indicator to pull over onto the hard shoulder had just stopped in the middle and turned on the hazard lights!

Brilliant.

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