Two wrongs make a big smash-up
A'noon, bloggardes! It's Saturday, I dont have to go to work and I'm enjoying this immensely. Instead, I've been cleaning up my flat ready for property look-over next week. Bathroom and bedroom are all done, I just face the horror of my main room. Nah, shouldn't be too bad, just tedious.
But more interesting, and back to a favourite theme of mine, was the utterly horrible bits of driving I just witnessed returning home from getting my food in. First of all was by myself, and more about maneuvers than driving. Parked in the bike spaces (which are far too narrow for anything sensible - and mine isn't that big a steed) I had to do about a 500-pt turn to get back out! Not helped by everyone else parked up the accessible front end, making it a very nice and narrow gap to get through backwards. Still, managed it in the end, but hardly graceful. At least I had my luminous bits on to make sure everyone saw me (:-)
More interesting to tell, is the bad bit of work by a moped rider and a BMW driver. My opinions on beemer drivers are well known, and have been confirmed again. So, there's a queue of traffic moving steadily at just under the speed limit, so the moped (probably owing to lack of experience - L-plate) undertakes the BMW, but not the whole queue, and ends up just in front of the beemer in a bit of space. Not the most sensible thing to be doing. Anyway, heading up to lights the road widens to incorporate the right-turn lane, and the queue has cleared a bit. Mope is turning right, moves into lane. Beemer is also turning right, but right before the lights, undertakes the mope and screehces to a halt just in front of it at the red lights. What was the point? Just for the sake of 10' of ground, and almost causing a collision into his rear end? Even more pointless when you consider that mope immediately filters straight past and in front of him again, as is allowed. So he's back in exactly the same situation. Idiot. But the mope wasnt exactly the best rider either.
Anyhow, back to the cleaning!
But more interesting, and back to a favourite theme of mine, was the utterly horrible bits of driving I just witnessed returning home from getting my food in. First of all was by myself, and more about maneuvers than driving. Parked in the bike spaces (which are far too narrow for anything sensible - and mine isn't that big a steed) I had to do about a 500-pt turn to get back out! Not helped by everyone else parked up the accessible front end, making it a very nice and narrow gap to get through backwards. Still, managed it in the end, but hardly graceful. At least I had my luminous bits on to make sure everyone saw me (:-)
More interesting to tell, is the bad bit of work by a moped rider and a BMW driver. My opinions on beemer drivers are well known, and have been confirmed again. So, there's a queue of traffic moving steadily at just under the speed limit, so the moped (probably owing to lack of experience - L-plate) undertakes the BMW, but not the whole queue, and ends up just in front of the beemer in a bit of space. Not the most sensible thing to be doing. Anyway, heading up to lights the road widens to incorporate the right-turn lane, and the queue has cleared a bit. Mope is turning right, moves into lane. Beemer is also turning right, but right before the lights, undertakes the mope and screehces to a halt just in front of it at the red lights. What was the point? Just for the sake of 10' of ground, and almost causing a collision into his rear end? Even more pointless when you consider that mope immediately filters straight past and in front of him again, as is allowed. So he's back in exactly the same situation. Idiot. But the mope wasnt exactly the best rider either.
Anyhow, back to the cleaning!
posted by J at 1:53 PM
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