This morning's commute and other commuting stories

Lol I passed right through but all the motorists were pissed yes

I guess the argument could be that yes you have to deliver / collect skip but apologise about temporarily blocking the road not tell everyone that questions your behaviour to fuck off?

motorists
to fuck off?

yes

I'm guessing it's because they've tried being nice and just get abuse anyway, so they may as well short cut straight to the abuse.

I've had good experiences with this kind of thing by saying something like "How long are you going to be? If it's a few minutes I'll wait, if it's longer I'll reverse back and go another way." You generally get a civil/honest response to that.

If you (not you specifically obviously) approach it with "Get out of the way. YoU aRe MaKiNg Me LaTe FoR wOrK!!!!one!!" you're going to get the FO/wanker response, and they WILL take longer to finish the delivery and get moving again.

yellow car!

yellow car! bin ...... go

my kids punch me in the arm every time we see one. is this a thing now?

all the motorists were pissed yes

fuck em

apologise about temporarily blocking the road

isn't the apology kind of implied in this situation?
the delivery guys have good reason to be there.

As long as his blinking apology lights are on then it's fine no?

I used to help out with the local school street by my daughter's primary school. There were clear signs up to tell the cars that the road was closed for ~30 mins in the morning and the same in the afternoon. Yet cars would still try and push through me and my big red/white barrier.

For a good few weeks, every morning, there were near constant deliveries to a house on the road that was being renovated. Similar lorries to the above delivering 40+ sheets of drywall or 2 pallets of bricks, etc.

I took great glee in letting them through the barriers into the road so they could park up and block the road for a full 20 minutes at a time. Some motons would still try to push past my barrier only to then find a large lorry parked up with a driver that far less polite than I would normally be.

According to Professor J Bulmanovich of the University of South-West Sussex, the game can trace its origins back to Britain in the 1600s and the Cotswolds region where the harvest of rapeseed provided the inspiration.

https://www.drive.com.au/caradvice/the-400-year-old-history-of-spotto-the-yellow-car-game/

Apparently not a new thing

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Cycling along getting annoyed with a moped I felt was encroaching on me. Got shat on by a pigeon. Either a coincidence or I had engaged in a mind fight with a telepath who controls birds.

Idiot motorbike/scooter turned left across the front of me on lea bridge road. He stopped in the middle of the cycle path about 1 or 2 metres in front of me, so I hit him side on, at full pelt & whet flying through him. Now in whipps Cross A&E with a probable broken wrist, a cut head and a fooked knee. Several other cycling casualties here.be careful out there kids

Crikey! Take it easy. GWS.

Shit, that’s grim, heal up soon

Hey Mr RAC van driver…
…passing me tonight in the gloom on a narrow double-blind bend
Then driving up close next to me with the passenger-side window wound down to call me names when I’d try and wave-stop you, knowing walkers, cyclists, runners, dog walkers etc. use this lane…
Well I’ve your reg no. so good luck with the career appeal YOU FUCKIN DANGEROUS CUNT

Catch it on camera?

No but time and place and first part of the reg plate should suffice, at least for a start

Fingers crossed, report back when you know and glad you didn't get hurt.

:)

No video, no whitenesses. Genuine best of luck to you chap.

Sorry but nothing will come from this. Matey will just say it never happened and you've got nothing to prove it.

Hello to Lawrence if your on here. nice chat from Stockwell lights down Brixton road. Had a shit day at work and our little chat cheered me up. All the best if your on here👍

Cycling along getting annoyed with a moped I felt was encroaching on me. Got shat on by a pigeon. Either a coincidence or I had engaged in a mind fight with a telepath who controls birds.

Yeah, sorry that was me (not the moped, or the bird). I have recently been experimenting with mind-control on various avian subjects with some limited success.
Whilst it's fairly straightforward initialising the telepathic link, and flying them around and what-not, it's actually very difficult to know what their bodily functions are up to! Unfortunately, the struggle with telepathic incontinence for most practitioners of this art is real. In all honesty, however, not really a major issue so far as I'm nowhere near the birds when they defecate, it's usually over a car, or a cyclist or a pensioner. It's meant to be good luck, after all.