One single thing that makes you think "knob" Vol 2
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The woman today on the school run. I parked up in the co-op opposite the school while the missus drops the kids off. This woman pulls into the car park, turning across the path of an oncoming car and narrowly avoiding a head on. Then I notice one of the kids is standing up in the back, obviously unstrapped. If this duumvirate of knobbishness wasn't enough - she then leaves the youngest kid (who I'd put at around 2) in the back while exiting the car and taking the other one off to the school. After a good 20 minutes of being completely unsighted, having left a 2yr old locked in a car she returns triumphant, gets her bag out of the car, and once again locks her little treasure in while she goes shopping in the co-op.
The child wasn't even ginger. No excuse.
The child wasn't even ginger. No excuse.
numtumfutunch said:
Pedestrians defiantly using the road because the footpath is muddy/icy/whatever even on narrow sections leaving no room for 2 cars to pass
I walk in the road myself if appropriate but always get out of the way for traffic
Apart from the fact the highway code mentions you should give way to vunerable road users and there is no legal requirement to use the pavement I guess you're right ...I walk in the road myself if appropriate but always get out of the way for traffic
Me today I'm afraid.
I spent two minutes clearing snow from my car before setting off to the shop this morning. When another car braked and had to pull over because all the snow from the roof covered the windscreen I passed slowly enough for them to hear my laughter.
I didn't even offer to help.
I spent two minutes clearing snow from my car before setting off to the shop this morning. When another car braked and had to pull over because all the snow from the roof covered the windscreen I passed slowly enough for them to hear my laughter.
I didn't even offer to help.
Was following a learner this weekend, giving plenty of room etc and come to a stop at traffic lights, with the learner at the front..... inevitable happens and it stalls when the lights go green, about 5 seconds pass and the car behind me beeps, people in the back of the learner turn around to look at me.... top marks to the idiot in the soft roader sat behind me
+5 bellend points for you!
+5 bellend points for you!
playalistic said:
Liquid Knight said:
I hope the space was validated with a purchase.
Indeed. A rather fresh baguette, some reasonably decent bacon, and some pretty terrible coffee beans. 
playalistic said:
The woman today on the school run. I parked up in the co-op opposite the school while the missus drops the kids off. This woman pulls into the car park, turning across the path of an oncoming car and narrowly avoiding a head on. Then I notice one of the kids is standing up in the back, obviously unstrapped. If this duumvirate of knobbishness wasn't enough - she then leaves the youngest kid (who I'd put at around 2) in the back while exiting the car and taking the other one off to the school. After a good 20 minutes of being completely unsighted, having left a 2yr old locked in a car she returns triumphant, gets her bag out of the car, and once again locks her little treasure in while she goes shopping in the co-op.
The child wasn't even ginger. No excuse.
A note on the windscreen telling her that social services have been contacted The child wasn't even ginger. No excuse.
.masermartin said:
Liquid Knight said:
It's not just me then. Even if I only need to use the cash machine I still go in and buy something. By taking a space I'm taking their business. In theory anyway.
Only if you take the last space, surely?percymk4 said:
B.J.W said:
rambo19 said:
percymk4 said:
People who can't just accept they were in the wrong and apologise.
Me, on my way to a night-shift, driving through my village with parking spaces either side of the road, taxi parked up on the right and a car coming the opposite way waiting for me to pass so as he could get through.
Suddenly said knob decides to shoot out of his space on the right (behind the taxi) in reverse. He fails to see me and forces me to stop and use horn to show him I'm there.
He stops, glares for a few seconds, and mouths something like "f
k off". So I put the window down and ask him if he could move forward so I (and the car behind me) could get past. He then puts his window down and asks: "what the fk is your problem?"
"You nearly hit my car"
"what?"
"you nearly hit my car"
"..."
"Can I get past then?"
"Better hope I don't see you around here again mate"
"aye ok"
He then follows me out the village, right up my arse with the full beams on his diesel A3 blazing away.
If he'd have held his hands up in a "sorry for the mistake" way then it would've been a non event, rather than going straight for the aggressive "I'm right and fk everyone else" attitude that seems to be what you find a lot of on the roads now.
Knob.
I'm not a hard man or a fighter, but,Me, on my way to a night-shift, driving through my village with parking spaces either side of the road, taxi parked up on the right and a car coming the opposite way waiting for me to pass so as he could get through.
Suddenly said knob decides to shoot out of his space on the right (behind the taxi) in reverse. He fails to see me and forces me to stop and use horn to show him I'm there.
He stops, glares for a few seconds, and mouths something like "f
k off". So I put the window down and ask him if he could move forward so I (and the car behind me) could get past. He then puts his window down and asks: "what the fk is your problem?""You nearly hit my car"
"what?"
"you nearly hit my car"
"..."
"Can I get past then?"
"Better hope I don't see you around here again mate"
"aye ok"
He then follows me out the village, right up my arse with the full beams on his diesel A3 blazing away.
If he'd have held his hands up in a "sorry for the mistake" way then it would've been a non event, rather than going straight for the aggressive "I'm right and f
k everyone else" attitude that seems to be what you find a lot of on the roads now.Knob.
as soon as he said "better hope I don't see you around here again mate", I would of been out of my car and just said, "i'm here now, do what you have to do".
The benefits of being a bit rough looking and bald in a mud sodden Navarra - I very rarely get threatened (my booster seat gives me extra height)
Also, I have the opposite a muddy 4x4, a small red MX5, and I have noticed a difference in other drivers attitudes since buying the car a few months ago, but that's another story.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Heavy-Duty-Baseball-Bat-...
...has been used to secure my steering wheel ever since.
iva cosworth said:
"Creepers" at the front of traffic lights.
Had a Focus next to me at Hogarth roundabout earlier, creeping forward.
Some of the red phases are quite long there so what's to gain by creeping forward ?
Apart from needing a new clutch earlier than necessary.....
I've noticed this a lot more lately. People holding brakes and almost jumping a length over the line by the time the light changes. The car behind creeping forward as well so if the front car gets blue lights flashed at them they can not back up. Had a Focus next to me at Hogarth roundabout earlier, creeping forward.
Some of the red phases are quite long there so what's to gain by creeping forward ?
Apart from needing a new clutch earlier than necessary.....
Something else I find amusing; there's a set of traffic lights at the end of the road where I work. It's like a Mercedes pointed star with the main road a dog leg corner. It's up the road from the Police station, Hospital and the Fire station is a few corners away so when I get a green light I creep out making sure nobody is jumping the lights opposing me or there are any emergency service vehicles. The number of idiots who even though they are not at the front of the line decide to floor it and nearly run into the back of my car is stupid. One of these days I'll have to stop to avoid a cyclist or pedestrian who isn't paying attention and loose my car.
Talking of impatients at traffic lights I was once peeped at and shouted at for not pulling forward at lights into the Cyclists box. Quite why pulling forward another 3ft on a red light made a difference to him I don't know but he was rather red in the face by the time the lights change.
SistersofPercy said:
Talking of impatients at traffic lights I was once peeped at and shouted at for not pulling forward at lights into the Cyclists box. Quite why pulling forward another 3ft on a red light made a difference to him I don't know but he was rather red in the face by the time the lights change.
Who mentioned Busy Lizzies?SistersofPercy said:
Talking of impatients at traffic lights I was once peeped at and shouted at for not pulling forward at lights into the Cyclists box. Quite why pulling forward another 3ft on a red light made a difference to him I don't know but he was rather red in the face by the time the lights change.
Last week there was spotters in the centre of Wimbledon having a word with anybody in a cycle box.I nearly got my ear bent but I was in it due to not able to get round the left turn.
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