Dangerous horse riders again

[brokenflipflop]

Went for a ride with the wife this morning. Cool. On a steep uphill stretch of a country lane we saw two young riders side by side coming towards us down the hill. When we were about 20 yards away I noticed a WVM waiting behind the horses when the youngster on the horse nearest the middle of the road waved the WVM through and into our path so me and the misses had to dive onto the pavement.

I shouted at the girl to the effect "you stupid little cow" - not very nice but then she tried her best to have us plastered onto the front of a tranny van. The gormless cow didn't reply but I was too concerned for the wife who ended up on her arse on the pavement.

Firstly these two idiots are two abreast going over a brow of a hill and then they disregard our presence by waving a van through which underlines what I already knew: large beasts like horses being ridden by kids on public roads are a bloody nuisance at best and lethal at worst.

The wife is Ok, a bit shook up but I hope it doesn't put her off biking. At least next time she comes across kids on horseback she will be on her guard.

 

[MontyVeda]

blimey BFF, do we have to spell everything out to you?

thats... s. p. e. l. l. e. v. e. r. y. t. h. i. n. g. o. u. t. t. o. y. o. u.

they have been looking for you ever since they read the texting on a horse and your bin men threads. The riders, possibly Tabitha and a friend, having the higher vantage point, but not the weight and muscle of a white transit van were on the lookout for you... as soon as you were spotted and within range, their other friends in the white van, who, incidentally work for the local council as refuse techs, were alerted to take action, and they did.

I'm sure they're all having a ruddy good laugh at the look on your face as you hid behind your wife, crying like a baby... whilst mourning the fact that they missed you.


ps.... can we stop using the term 'tranny van' as it's offensive to transsexual community, god bless 'em.

pps... unless of course, it's a van full of transsexuals, then it's ok i guess.

 

[Muddyfox]

Cracking response Monty ...

 

[G-Zero]

Surely the bulk of the blame there is with WVM ?

If you can see him, he should see you and irrespective of being waved through by the young girl, who possibly isn't even a driver, he should never have forced you off the road.

 

[brokenflipflop]

Surely the bulk of the blame there is with WVM ?

If you can see him, he should see you and irrespective of being waved through by the young girl, who possibly isn't even a driver, he should never have forced you off the road.

Well I'm not so sure - the WVM was coming up behind the horses over the brow of the hill and the horses may have obscured us a bit from his view and the fact that he was just arriving over the brow of the hill didn't help but the riders could see us quite clearly and the silly girl waved the van to pass as though we didn't exist. The wvm probably assumed she's waving him through because the coast is clear which clearly it wasn't.

The point you raise about the rider not being a driver has been exactly my point - a bit of a kid with no training and possibly no knowledge of the highway code, riding a horse two abreast over the brow of a hill. That's exactly why something should be done about the situation in the interests of safety.

 

[400bhp]

Aren't horseriders round your way just gypsies?

 

[Lisa21]

" Buy your troll food here everybody.....pound a bag........."

 

[400bhp]

I shouted at the girl to the effect "you stupid little cow" - not very nice but then she tried her best to have us plastered onto the front of a tranny van. The gormless cow didn't reply but I was too concerned for the wife who ended up on her arse on the pavement.

You miserable excuse for a human being.

See what I did there.

 

[Linford]

I much prefer Monty's version that the van was full of transexuals

I think you need to move to a place with less horses BFF. In fact I think that you have given me some inspiration for my new avatar. May the horse be with you

 

[MontyVeda]

I much prefer Monty's version that the van was full of transexuals

transsexual bin men!

 

[Jezston]

'Tranny' is short for 'transvestite', not 'transexual'.

 

[Linford]

I stand corrected - If BFF was a true gentleman, he would have given way for the girls on the horses , and the trans gender binmen

 

[Andy84]

The two girls could just have easily been riding bicycles two abreast and made the same mistake.
The WVM was an idiot for overtaking when he couldn't see if the road ahead was clear.

If your that bothered about safety issues regarding the young horse riders, you could have explained to them what they had done wrong, instead of shouting abuse at them.

 

[Bicycle]

Went for a ride with the wife this morning. Cool. On a steep uphill stretch of a country lane we saw two young riders side by side coming towards us down the hill. When we were about 20 yards away I noticed a WVM waiting behind the horses when the youngster on the horse nearer the middle of the road waved the WVM through and into our path so the misses and I had to dive onto the pavement.

I see Trollery writ large on this one, but I'm a fool for these obvious bear traps. My thoughts , as follows:

1. I made a couple of changes to your first paragraph, BFF. There are other areas where a little more attention to meaning and syntax would be beneficial, but I've addressed only the two real howlers. I know you feel awkward about your written English and have said so in other threads, so I thought this would be helpful. The changes are in bold type.

2. The WVM is as culpapble as the equestrians or more so. If he can't see the way is clear, he has to stay behind Anaesthesia and Fibula, whether they wave him on or not.

3. Certainly it is unwise to ride horses two-abreast over the brow of a hill on a road. However, it doesn't follow from this that kids oughtn't ride horses on public roads.

4. Horses on the highway are only a bloody nuisance only if you see them as one. They were riding on them when the Q7 was just a twinkle in the tear duct of August Horch's great grandfather.

5. Do you mean pavement as in a paved area for pedestrians, or pavement as in a metalled road surface? If the former, you are very unlucky to find a lane with pavements. None of the lanes around here has pavements. We have lovely, soft, green verges to leap onto.

I'm sorry you had a rum old ride. I hope nothing hurts too much. I also hope it hasn't put Mrs BFF off cycling.

On a positive note, I bet it looked hilarious to the equestrians and the WVM!

 

[snorri]

The point you raise about the rider not being a driver has been exactly my point - a bit of a kid with no training and possibly no knowledge of the highway code, riding a horse two abreast over the brow of a hill. That's exactly why something should be done about the situation in the interests of safety.

Are you telling us that the outside horse rider was in Primary position and the inside in Secondary? That's just outrageous, sounds as if these young idiots thought their cycle training could be transferred to horse riding. ​