[2024-10-04] i got in trouble with my car [TbXvrVocdLo]

So I'm making a video today because as you

can tell, I'm still kind of sick.

I got really sick about a week ago, had a

temperature, fever, coughing, sore throat.

Everything's fine now, but I still feel

really dizzy, so I can't drive, which

means I can't go to work.

And I'm kind of upset today because I just

got one of these in the post.

It's a penalty charge notice because I was

driving in the bus lane apparently, and

I'm kind of— I'm annoyed with it.

So I thought I'd make a video, make some

money to pay off this stupid fine, which

is £30 actually.

So it's been about a month and a half

since I got my new car, which is my first

ever car.

And it's been about a month and a half of

driving the car almost every day.

And I finally picked up a penalty, not for

speeding, not for dangerous driving, but

for accidentally driving into a bus lane

for like 2 seconds.

I even have photos from the CCTV that

captured me committing the offence.

So in hindsight, yeah, it's kind of funny

because there's a massive buses only sign

which for some reason I managed to

completely miss because I remember going

to that Tesco's and I remember seeing like

a funny roundabout and I thought I could

go around the roundabout to turn the car

around and then when I was on the

roundabout I saw a bus and I realized, oh

wait, this is like a bus stop, like a bus

pickup terminus stop or whatever it's

called, and I honestly did not remember a

massive sign on the road saying buses

only.

So it says here, the vehicle identified

above was observed at 1 PM.

The authority believes that a penalty

charge is payable as the stated vehicle

was involved in the following bus lane

contravention: being in a bus lane.

And it says the penalty charge is £60, but

it was actually only £30 because if you

pay it quickly within 2 weeks, you get 50%

off the penalty charge, which is very

generous of them.

I actually didn't know that they had

cameras keeping an eye on bus lanes and

bus stops to make sure you don't drive

into it.

I just feel like it's so unfair.

It was literally just 2 or 3 seconds when

I enter the bus lane thing and then I come

straight back out.

I didn't park in the bus lane, I didn't

stop there, I didn't get out the car to do

some shopping and then get back in the

car, I didn't pick anyone up.

I just went in, realized my mistake, and

then came straight back out.

But still I get penalized by £30, which is

so unfair.

And the whole reason I'm going out in the

first place and getting a car and driving

is to go to work to make money, and then I

lose £30, which is like half a day of

work.

And it says I can appeal it if I don't

agree with the decision, but I feel like

it's just not worth going through the

entire process of trying to appeal just to

save £30.

And I guess I was in the wrong because I

can't deny that I did enter the bus lane

when it is clearly marked it is for buses

only.

I just didn't seem to notice or realize at

the time.

For some reason.

And now I'm feeling kind of scared.

What if I do some other kind of mistake

that ends up costing me more money, like

accidentally going too fast and not

noticing that the speed limit changes?

Because there's so many speed limit signs

that keep changing, going up and down as

you go down the road.

And there's all these different markings

on the road, like double yellow lines,

single yellow lines, zigzag lines, solid

lines, dashed lines.

I don't know what all these stupid lines

mean.

What if I accidentally not notice

something and it gets me another fine?

It just feels like sometimes you can be

trying so hard to be careful when you're

driving, and through no fault of your own,

you just accidentally do something or you

not notice something, and you end up

getting some kind of penalty, or you

damage your car, or you get in trouble, or

you upset someone, they yell at you.

There's just so many dangers of driving.

It's kind of not fun anymore.

It's kind of stressful.

And I feel like I don't know if getting

the car was a good idea in the first

place.

So here's the road, and as you can see,

you turn into here and then you are here.

And from this angle— so this angle is

already pretty high up because it's the

Google camera on top of the Google Maps

Google car.

And obviously I'm not sitting this high up

in my car because my car's not a big car,

it's like a small car.

So I'm pretty low down to the ground in my

car.

So when you pull into this road, you're

here and you can't really see that sign

that says buses only.

Really, they should have a sign, like a

road sign here maybe, that says buses

only, do not enter.

But they put a stupid sign On the road,

look, if you're here when you enter the

road, you can't see it.

And if your car's low down like mine, you

don't really have good viewpoints of the

road from high up if you're looking at

road signs.

So then you go closer, and obviously I'm

more looking at the buildings and which

way I can drive, not down at this road bit

here.

Still, even here, it doesn't look very

clear.

It's just like a brown mess on the floor.

I didn't know it was a big sign saying

buses only.

I wasn't paying attention to what's on the

road.

Right in front of me.

So by the time I'm here, the car— the

front of the car is probably blocking part

of this sign because I'm probably stopped

here

and I can't really see the buses only sign

because the front of the car is probably

covering it by then.

So I go in thinking, oh, this is like a

little roundabout, I can just go around

it, or maybe there's a car— I thought

maybe there's a car park where I can park

my car in here because it's a little

Tesco.

I can't even go around the road on Google

Street View because no cars allowed.

And then you've got this sign here, it

says bus terminus, no parking, parking

enforcement in operation.

So I didn't park there, I just went round

it, and there was a bus here at the time,

so I stopped for like 1 second to see if

it was going to go or not.

It wasn't going to go, so I decided to go

around it.

And then I go around it, I come back out

of the buses only lane, And I decide to

stop here and I park here on the corner,

which is where I should have parked.

I mean, there's plenty— I mean, there's a

massive car park here.

I could have parked there.

Didn't really notice that because you

can't— how do you get into that car park

from this side?

I don't know.

So I thought I could just go into that

little roundabout bit, but it's not a

roundabout.

So yeah, just by entering this bit for

like 4 seconds, it cost me £30.

I can't believe it.

And I don't even know where the camera is.

Because from the angle of that photograph,

it was obviously taken around here, like

kind of zoomed in like that, but I can't

see where the camera is.

Look, I thought maybe the camera's up

here, but there's no camera there.

I don't see any poles where a camera could

be.

Maybe up here?

I don't know, it's like they've hidden the

camera.

They should make it more obvious that

there's a camera.

Look, there's like a security camera here,

but surely that can't be the camera that's

filming down there because it's so far

away.

Such an annoying place.

There's not even a sign that says buses

only.

Look, no sign at all.

They should have like a big sign, big red

words Buses only.

Why do they put this stupid sign on the

road?

Yes, to catch people out so they can make

some money by fining them.

Stupid country, isn't it?

I want to show you what Rainbow Six Siege

looks like on my brand new 39-inch LG

UltraGear Ultra SuperWide gaming monitor

with 240Hz refresh rate.

It's pretty nice.

So if you look at this curve, it's very

immersive.

That's the word.

You feel very immersed in the game with

this monitor.

I mean, look at this thing, it's so wide,

and it's got ultra-wide support, so it

doesn't mean that everything's stretched.

It's actually like proper support for the

aspect ratio 21:9.

And it looks so good compared to my

previous monitor, which was just a 32-inch

curved 16:9 gaming monitor.

This one's a 21:9,

so vertically it's about the same space as

my previous monitor, but it's almost

double the width.

So it's a pretty wide monitor.

It looks so good, especially when you have

it pulled a bit closer towards your face,

so then it feels more like you're wearing

this VR goggle kind of experience when

you're gaming with it.

And it looks so good.

This game's old, it's like 10 years old

game, but it still looks really good.

Like the shadows, the lighting, the little

details on the printers, stuff like that.

Oh my God, I'm dead.

What?

Can't even appreciate the details on the

printers without getting shot in the back.

Look, I'm trying to show the printers and

get shot in the back.

Stupid game, isn't it?