Monday 11 January 2010

OK, it's Sunday, and the Sunday Drivers are about writ large...

What IS it about the weekend, and particularly Sundays, that seems to generate more complete ****wits on the roads? You know the sort I'm on about...

The 24mph merchant, looking for his flagwalker...

The meander, who can't decide what side of the dotted white line she wants to drive alongside...

The Sunday Shopper, (pictured left) who decides she's more important than everyone else, overtakes the bus, and then proceeds to park on a bus stop...

Yeah, they're about in the week as well, but there seem to be more of them on Sundays...

By the way, the clue to help you, the normal motorist, to avoiding this problem, is to notice that the box you're parking in is coloured RED, and bordered by a bloody big yellow dashed line. On, and it's also usually double yellow-line marked as well. Those are the clues to help you to avoid any future "why is the bus parked on top of my car?" issues!

The Five Finger Racer, who, in a queue of traffic, cannot abide being behind a bus, so in a fit of pique, guns his Vauxhall Nova's 1.2 litre sewing machine and, on the wrong side of the road, barges past everything to get past the bus - including, to their horror - the drivers of oncoming traffic (actually, this git's about pretty much everyday, normally after darkness falls)... oh, and why five finger racer? That's because of the very rude gestures he's making out of the drivers' side window.

The helpful idiot, whose lack of forethought borders on the jaw droppingly moronic - like this pair of twits, who, rather than push the failed car OFF the junction to a more suitable and safer place, proceeded to hook up a towing cable just over the stop line at a very busy set of traffic lights. Apologies for the blurred photo - I was in a bit of a hurry to snap these gits.

Now, thinking about the above, where the hell are the overworked, under-appreciated, much maligned Traffic Cops when you most want 'em?

Anyone with a decent answer, please let the Commissioner of the Met know, eh?

In the mean time, here's one that made me laugh. Not often you see a company with a decent sense of humour, but this coffee and tea merchant got it just right

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