Gaz FFC Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 28 minutes ago, IainMorton said: Car adverts on TV. Every one shows a new car driving along a stretch of motorway or country road in nice weather with no other traffic around. You never see them advertise a car that is sitting in a three mile traffic jam due to roadworks in the pissing rain which is a lot more realistic. Or avoiding the millions of shite drivers out there and foreigners who think they're still driving back home. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Raccoon Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 11 minutes ago, Gaz FFC said: Or avoiding the millions of shite drivers out there and foreigners who think they're still driving back home. How would you know they're foreigners? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz FFC Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 1 minute ago, Bert Raccoon said: How would you know they're foreigners? Foreign plates. My work is right next to a massive warehouse full of Eastern Europeans. The standard of driving from them is a sight to behold. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthernJambo Posted September 18, 2016 Share Posted September 18, 2016 The boss would have told him to take a running jump but as the guy had an artificial leg he was a bit more diplomatic about it. Take a limp and hop? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightswoodBear Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 Took the kids to Edinburgh Zoo yesterday. Anyone that has been and used the car park will be familiar with the fact that the entrance is on a fairly steep hill. There was a car in front paying to get in and I pulled up behind. As she's going to pull away I can see her talking to the boy and gesturing back at me. He comes back and says that she's worried that she'll roll back into me and could I move back. I've left loads of space, but as there is nothing behind me I roll back a bit. She then starts trying to pull away, engine fucking howling and as soon as she releases the handbrake starts rolling back towards me. There's now a couple of cars behind me and she's telling the boy that I need to move back more. He's very apologetic and I can move back a bit, but not much as the queue of traffic is now about 6 or 7 cars long. Same thing happens and she rolls back towards me again. He's now asking everyone to move back, but I've pointed out that she's had two goes that this and moved back about 20 feet, and would she like us to reverse right back out onto Corstorphine Road to give her a proper run at it? Luckily there is enough room for me to bounce up onto the pavement and get round her and into the car park. I've already shown the boy my parking pass so decide I'm not fucking about any longer. The look that she gave me as I drove up by her was priceless, as if i'm at fault for either; a: Her driving a piece of shit with a burnt out clutch or b: Her being utterly incapable of performing a hill start and being unsafe to be on the road. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz FFC Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 Not often you see a woman driver actually stick to the cliché that women can't drive. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 That sounds pretty stressful KB. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightswoodBear Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 5 minutes ago, throbber said: That sounds pretty stressful KB. It was a bit, we're getting a new car in a week or so and this one is being traded in, the last thing I need is some daft arsehole reversing into it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz FFC Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 14 minutes ago, KnightswoodBear said: It was a bit, we're getting a new car in a week or so and this one is being traded in, the last thing I need is some daft arsehole reversing into it. When I was selling my last motor I had a woman reverse into the side of it. Had it parked outside my mates house and some mental bint reversed out her drive and right into the side of my car. To be fair to her she could very easily have fled the scene as I was inside my mates house and didn't even hear her. I had only just paid for a wax job to take away minor scratches too. They gave me a crappy Peugeot as a courtesy car too. Thing sounded like an aircraft. To make things worse the woman had her car picked up by the garage and returned fixed before mine even got collected. I was raging. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugster Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 49 minutes ago, KnightswoodBear said: Took the kids to Edinburgh Zoo yesterday. Anyone that has been and used the car park will be familiar with the fact that the entrance is on a fairly steep hill. There was a car in front paying to get in and I pulled up behind. As she's going to pull away I can see her talking to the boy and gesturing back at me. He comes back and says that she's worried that she'll roll back into me and could I move back. I've left loads of space, but as there is nothing behind me I roll back a bit. She then starts trying to pull away, engine fucking howling and as soon as she releases the handbrake starts rolling back towards me. There's now a couple of cars behind me and she's telling the boy that I need to move back more. He's very apologetic and I can move back a bit, but not much as the queue of traffic is now about 6 or 7 cars long. Same thing happens and she rolls back towards me again. He's now asking everyone to move back, but I've pointed out that she's had two goes that this and moved back about 20 feet, and would she like us to reverse right back out onto Corstorphine Road to give her a proper run at it? Luckily there is enough room for me to bounce up onto the pavement and get round her and into the car park. I've already shown the boy my parking pass so decide I'm not fucking about any longer. The look that she gave me as I drove up by her was priceless, as if i'm at fault for either; a: Her driving a piece of shit with a burnt out clutch or b: Her being utterly incapable of performing a hill start and being unsafe to be on the road. What did you think of the Zoo? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightswoodBear Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 Just now, Rugster said: What did you think of the Zoo? That I wish the lions were nearer the bottom of the hill. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugster Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 7 minutes ago, KnightswoodBear said: That I wish the lions were nearer the bottom of the hill. What, so that woman could roll into them? Cecil's only been dead a year or so, have you absolutely no compassion? Far too soon! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightswoodBear Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 2 minutes ago, Rugster said: What, so that woman could roll into them? Cecil's only been dead a year or so, have you absolutely no compassion? Far too soon! I was hoping they'd eat her. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugster Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 It is a fairly steep hill but it sounds like this woman should have her licence revoked. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
endieinreekie Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 I hate the hill on the way into the zoo, especially because our car has a shonky handbrake at the best of times. My PTTGOYN is having to prepare for an interview when I'm off on a public holiday 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightswoodBear Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 2 minutes ago, endieinreekie said: I hate the hill on the way into the zoo, especially because our car has a shonky handbrake at the best of times. My PTTGOYN is having to prepare for an interview when I'm off on a public holiday There was no need for the dirty look you gave me yesterday. It's not my fault you drive a clown car. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
endieinreekie Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 1 minute ago, KnightswoodBear said: There was no need for the dirty look you gave me yesterday. It's not my fault you drive a clown car. Had your chauffeur been driving it wouldn't have been a problem 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightswoodBear Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 5 minutes ago, endieinreekie said: Had your chauffeur been driving it wouldn't have been a problem I could have sent him over to show you how to drive up a hill. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
endieinreekie Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 2 minutes ago, KnightswoodBear said: I could have sent him over to show you how to drive up a hill. I'll buy an automatic instead of suffering that ignominy 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted September 19, 2016 Share Posted September 19, 2016 21 hours ago, Adam said: I've led an OK life tbh. I'm ready to go. Bagsy the baby sick yellow jacket 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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