People Who Annoy me!!

It would be even better if they were sticky-backed so that you could position them on the windscreen at just the place to shall we say, impede the vision of the dirver so he couldn't drive away?

Shall I send you some of my notices anno? The downside is, of course, that you have to make a quick get-away just in case the driver catches you doing the deed.

The half-on-the-pavement thing happens a lot on the road where I live. Cars park all the way down my side where the pavement is very narrow and in shocking condition. There are lots of people coming up and down with mobility scooters and mums with buggies who have to negotiate the parkers. Occasionally we see a PCSO taking an interest. Not often enough.

Now that's annoying, my message is floating around in the ether somewhere.

I admitted to leaving Spike's poo bag occasionally - he will poo first thing and if I get distracted and go back a different way I forget. I apologize particularly to Bourton Bradstock last weekend. I unashamedly drive a large 4.4, with consequent parking issues. I leave my shopping trolley in the nearest available space on the premise that some poor soul is paid to collect them up and if we were all good people he would be jobless. I have no problems with street preachers, or door knockers - if they want to indulge in a complete waste of time activity, let them.

In fact an all round very, very bad person but can't be helped.

And this second version isn't nearly as good as I remember the first.

I keep a supply of A4 size notes in my glove compartment telling drivers off for parking half on the pavement. I leave the notes under the wipers of the offending car. It really gets my goat - should have had that in my post too.

Elegran You might have been in a legally correct position but if the b*****r had started nudging his car forwards or backwards, you might have been in quite a precarious position. Some car drivers have a visceral contempt for pedestrians. (I hope their legs drop off.)

What an a*****le! It is scary enough even on a pavement with tinies (and dogs), and I often have to walk round cars when I am out with Grace, fortunately there is next to no traffic in the village, but I still resent it.

I thought of a whole lot of suitable (and unsuitable) answers later, but he drove off so I did not have time to get any answer in. If the woman with the pram had waited with me, as I suggested, we could have stood one in front of his car and one behind, quite legally on "our" pavement, and kept him waiting as long as we had to wait. I don't think she wanted a confrontation, so she just pushed her baby out into the road, with a toddler clinging to her hand.

Oh Elegran I would have loved to say "It actually took you that long then ?"

Do I have a right to stand in the road for five minutes chatting to friends while motorists can't drive past me?

I ask that because I waited for a motorist to return to his car, which was parked half onto a narrow pavement so that someone with a pram and a toddler had to walk in the road to get round it. His reply when I pointed this out, politely, to him. "I was only five f***ing minutes."

The "I'm all right Jack" fraternity annoy me intensely.

Rights involve responsibilities - I am not aware of the rights you mentioned being enshrined in any ethos I have ever heard of. You sound very angry today - hope I never end up behind you at a petrol pump - as I would probably have to leave without fuel I canlt imagine the owners of the petrol station would be too happy! And as for umbrellas, as I am quite small - watch out for your eyes

York46

People have the right to use any size umbrellas they want and people just have to get out of the way.
People also have the right to leave their car on a petrol pump while they do a years shopping if they want. The people behind them will just have to wait.

Gerry

Drivers who don't appear to know what their indicators are for.
People (usually men!!) who use oversized umbrellas on small, crowded pavements.
Motorists who fill up at the petrol station and then proceed to do a the equivalent of a week's shopping in the kiosk before paying and going back to their car - meanwhile a large queue is building up waiting to reach the pumps!

DH who reminds me to do something I am about to do!!!

Who ever keeps phoning his phone offering him PPI 5 times a day.

People who don't slot their shopping trolley properly in the others.

And me quite often when I forget simple things.

Cold callers who disregard the TPS option and who phone just as you've sat down on the lavatory!

Frank - there is never a policeman around when this happens or they just ignore it. I think I've only seen a policeman chastise or fine a cyclist on about two occasions.

janthea

I know in London the police issued penalty tickets to cyclists who run red lights and ride on the pavement.
The only problem was somebody in the office I worked was chased for non payment of a penalty ticket.
At the time of the offence he was in New York on business and he did not ride a bike.
It would be best if police took photographs of the riders when the tickets are issued.

Frank

But we are not like this though, are we??

I wish I loved the Human Race;
I wish I loved its silly face;
I wish I liked the way it walks;
I wish I liked the way it talks;
And when I'm introduced to one
I wish I thought What Jolly Fun!
Raleigh, Sir Walter

People who use the 'Pay with card' petrol pump and then go and pay at the kiosk. Acceptable when the forecourt is busy of course, but otherwise....why? People who use sarcasm during differences of opinion, especially when the sarcasm is being aimed at a person who has left the group. Mums/Grans/Carers on the School Run who seem to think that because it IS the School Run normal rules of the road do not apply.

4 x 4 owners who drive as if there car is made of glass. I drove down a local road with speed bumps last week and the 4 x 4 driver in front of me slowed down for each bump and tried to drive across it diagonally so only one wheel crossed it at a time, and it was not for the first time.

Likewise 4 x 4s driven by terrified women, mainly mums, who use the family wagon on weekdays to drive the children to and from school and the supermarket. They sit there terrified, hands gripping the steering wheel tightly, as whenim says, they park over two spaces, again usually diagonally, have great difficulty backing out because they have no feel for where the corners of the vehicle are and hog the centre of the road when driving.

Men (usually opposite you on a train) who pick their nose/ears and study the contents.

Cyclists who ride on the pavement, even though the road is empty! Cyclists who run red lights and ignore No Entry signs!

Ditherers of any persuasion!

grace

Call Centre callers especially those who put the phone down when you answer or speak with an accent that is difficult to understand.