The car as a freedom-of-choice transport means

[Wedg1e]

Worst drivers round here are (in order)
The distantly retired (top speed 20mph)
Anyone driving anything agricultural (no one else exists and often they take up 1/2 my lane also due to width)
Council workers just pre-lousing time (how slow and how much of a roundabout road can we take back to the depot)
Recently retired / "the economisers" - max speed 40mph and they will do their damndest to stop anyone overtaking inc swerving...
Mothers with kids (no one else exists again, "touch parkers" and maneuvre at random
Reps / Middle managers - I need be there yesterday and I drive big powerful car so I'll do 100mph everywhere and run with main beams constantly on)
New car drivers (is no dealership capable of aiming headlights anymore? Seemingly not given that most cars fail the first MOT on "clearly wrongly aimed headlights - BOTH too high") too worried about their paintwork and will swerve to avoid the slightest bit of moisture on the road..

Oh come on, surely you must have...

Scooter riders, foot out for no reason on every corner like they're riding speedway (at 22mph )

Taxi drivers with their fog lights on for no reason other than Asians like bling

People (90% of them women) who do 60 through a 50 on a busy dual carriageway then refuse to do more than 65 when it opens up to a 70

People who manage to take up two parking spaces with the smallest cars

People who go right round roundabouts in the outside lane, usually without indicating

Any driver of a German car who specified the model with non-functioning indicators

People who think they can get their family saloon off the lights faster than my company van

 

[Wedg1e]

furthest I care to do work is less than 5 miles --radius any further and I'm selective to what the job is . on cal;louts I'm well paid and will travel 70 miles

70 miles...!? I wish we had any clients CLOSER than that!

 

[Spark plug]

Oh come on, surely you must have...

Scooter riders, foot out for no reason on every corner like they're riding speedway (at 22mph )

Taxi drivers with their fog lights on for no reason other than Asians like bling

People (90% of them women) who do 60 through a 50 on a busy dual carriageway then refuse to do more than 65 when it opens up to a 70

People who manage to take up two parking spaces with the smallest cars

People who go right round roundabouts in the outside lane, usually without indicating

Any driver of a German car who specified the model with non-functioning indicators

People who think they can get their family saloon off the lights faster than my company van

Indicators, what them old fashioned things.

 

[brightspark]

70 miles...!? I wish we had any clients CLOSER than that!

only because I get 50 quid for 1st hour and 25 after that

 

[Wedg1e]

Its a shame some drivers don't realise this when they sit in traffic getting angry with everything and every body in their vicinity.

One of the women I work with admitted that if she's stuck in a queue and a motorcycle filters down the gap between the cars (leaving aside the risks, rights and wrongs of doing it) she will deliberately move across to try and block the bike.
I have warned her that if she does it to me she'll be needing a new mirror... in which to reflect on her stupidity and arrogance in preventing someone else from making progress just because she can't

 

[Wedg1e]

only because I get 50 quid for 1st hour and 25 after that

Sounds like I need to work for you

 

[skotl]

Edinburgh Council, they who paid £1bn for a 7 mile single-line tram line (or "network", if you work for the council) announced yesterday that the majority of the city would be restricted to 20MPH by July.

Certainly not much fun driving in the city...

 

[Wedg1e]

Don't forget the golf drivers.

When cycling dose anyone else experiance drivers with the mindset:

"Cyclist, must overtake, must overtake"

Even whilst navigating a junction or roundabout even if this means under takeing.

In a hazardous spot (like a roundabout) I'll deliberately position the van to try to protect the cyclist; however one day I had some twunt in an Impreza boot it round me... and almost totalled the cyclist.

 

[skotl]

...Even Aberdeen verges on too large for my tastes...

I remember doing a 2 week gig at a Brown & Root (Halliburton) site in Aberdeen.
Every morning, the same guy would come in and say "Ah was stuck at the roondaboot fur almost five meenits. This place is gittin more like London ivry day!"

 

[Seadog]

Hence why I avoid Edinburgh like the plague....
Only 2 reasons I'm there
1) Airport run
2) Wifey has dragged me to see the zoo (last time I was there some middle aged ned wanted a fight...now he would have got his head flushed down the nearest toilet for his lip.. / some gallery or other / some sculptures...

No one can blooming drive, too much traffic, takes forever and a day to get out of the centre...yuck - ditto for glasgow..

Even Aberdeen verges on too large for my tastes...

Dundee I tolerate in small doses...hence why I shop online for near everything...

You'd love London then

 

[skotl]

You'd love London then

I loathe London

To be clear, I am ok with Londoners but I hate the city...

 

[Seadog]

It's an acquired taste. To be honest I'd sooner be in a more rural environment.

 

[bump]

It's an acquired taste. To be honest I'd sooner be in a more rural environment.

Work keeping you here then? It is for us.

To solve the problem structural economic concentration needs to be broken up and companies need to become more accepting of remote working.

 

[Seadog]

Work keeping you here then? It is for us.

To solve the problem structural economic concentration needs to be broken up and companies need to become more accepting of remote working.

No, I've been retired for a while, just too set in my ways. I've lived here all my life.

 

[Robotstar5]

I would love to use the bus for work, the stop is almost outside the house and it would drop me at the factory gates, problem is it would get me there 5 minutes after my shift start time