Closing people's fuel caps

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slowmotion

slowmotion

Quite dreadful
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I would be delighted if someone was kind enough to point it out. I once drove off from a garage without closing the flap or the filler cap and left a certain amount of diesel on the road. Not good at all for other road users, including pedestrians. Fortunately, somebody alerted me within a few tens of yards.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn

SatNavSaysStraightOn

Changed hemispheres!
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Done the car door thing many a time, have even gotten out of my car in queuing traffic to let someone know about a flat tyre, and I am one of those buggers that will 'flash' people to let them know they don't have their lights on when it is totally dark, and have dropped a tactful hint in the past, that you can't shut a locking fuel cap cover once you have locked the car, because you have now locked it into the open position - but none as a cyclist.
 
defy-one

defy-one

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Cunobelin said:
The opposite side of the spectrum?

Trick I was told about when younger.

If you want to get your own back for a bad overtake, or "adverse" comment.... wait until you catch up in a stationary queue like traffic lights then open the rear kerbside door wide.

The driver has to then get out and walk round to close it!
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That is SO wrong, that it would feel SO RIGHT! :becool:
 
Leaway2

Leaway2

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Manchester (Sale)
ColinJ said:
Yes, one of those rare times when a suitable penalty was imposed! Mind you, this case was clearly not one that could be treated as a typical motoring 'incident'. (It took place about 1 km from where I grew up.)
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Agreed, it sounds as though the guy was a time bomb. It could have been anything, anyone.
 
Andrew_Culture

Andrew_Culture

Internet Marketing bod
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The People's Republic Of Suffolk.
You could be a cycling super hero... You already have the lycra!
 
Sheffield_Tiger

Sheffield_Tiger

Legendary Member
Arch said:
If someone is stupid enough to be driving with a mirror folded in, they're not worth asking.

Unless you can muster a really sarcastic patronising tone to ask "Shall I fold your mirror out so you can use it?"
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It's not outside the realms of possibility that the mirror is broken having been hit by another vehicle and the driver is on the way to get it repaired - in which case folding it out could cause more damage or cause it to fall/break off completely.

Unlikely, granted. But not impossible.
 
threebikesmcginty

threebikesmcginty

Corn Fed Hick...
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slowmotion said:
I would be delighted if someone was kind enough to point it out. I once drove off from a garage without closing the flap or the filler cap and left a certain amount of diesel on the road. Not good at all for other road users, including pedestrians. Fortunately, somebody alerted me within a few tens of yards.
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You're like a road going Exxon Valdez, slo-mo.
 
jonny jeez

jonny jeez

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Chislehurst, Kent, UK
I've opened a mirror for a driver, who seemed grateful but was probably more embarrassed to be driving with it folded in. I've done the rear door thing too when i noticed a chap with his door ajar (when is a door not a door...when its a jar... boom boom). He was very grateful when we stopped at the lights and I offered to close it.

that's it though just those two occasions that I can recall
 
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