Trapped by traffic, anyone else?

Shandy57

Having walked everywhere to save my diesel, I've just had to do a twelve mile round trip to take a poorly wood pigeon to the vets. I rang the closest vet to see if they could help - got an answering machine message 'sorry we can't answer at the moment, send us an email'? Glad I'm not with them.

I'm glad I still have half a tank, I have run out in the past because of a faulty gauge on a really dangerous fast country road. I'd picked up a hitchhiker, she wasn't happy!

Shandy47.
Did you walk or drive to get a wood pigeon to the vets?

If you drove, then I think you are foolish.
If you walked, then even more foolish.

I queued for over two hours (in South London) to fill up the car (which was nearly on empty). The entire road was blocked both ways from top to bottom. This lasted from 6am to 8pm, when the pumps ran dry again. It was marked up on the AA road map as road closed. It certainly was.

Shandy57 well done for taking the wood pigeon to the vet. Kindness to animals is never to be underestimated especially in these times where humans are busy trashing the environment.

Around us, edge of the Cotswolds, the roads are now permanently jammed and it's much worse since the supposed end of lockdown. Impossible to go anywhere, racing traffic down narrow lanes and grid locked main roads. No point trying to go anywhere!

I have seen not a single queue for petrol around here but we were trapped this morning on a narrow 60mph road by a car travelling at 30mph. Now I understand that if you are new to an area of narrow twisty roads with amazing scenery you might wish to tootle along at 30mph but if there is a queue of over 20 cars behind you why, oh why, not pull over to let everyone else past?

I walked into town earlier (about 25 mins) and was planning on getting the bus back. However there was such a queue at the petrol station down the hill, with a long tailback of traffic unable to get past, I thought the bus home would take forever, instead of 10 minutes max.

So I actually bought a book in The Works (v. cheap) to read on the way home, but as it happened the bus sensibly made a diversion to avoid the queue. PITA for anyone at the bus stops it missed though.

It’s rather a good book - so far, at least - by an author I’d never heard of. ?