Green Cross Code

[rogerzilla]

I don't think they teach it any more. Three times today, I had people step or (in one case) ride out into the road without even a single look. They're all going to be mown down by silent electric cars, aren't they?

A loud "WHOA!" always gets their attention but they all just froze like deer in headlights and in each case I had to cross the white line to go round them. Road safety seems to consist of "buy a car" these days!

 

[cyberknight]

about time we used someone to teach the green cross code

 

[Sharky]

It was a little rabbit that taught children in my day. My mum used to run the local Tufty Club.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

It was a little rabbit that taught children in my day. My mum used to run the local Tufty Club.

Rabbit? The Tufty I knew was a Squirrel

 

[Sharky]

Rabbit? The Tufty I knew was a Squirrel

Yes you're right. Having a grey moment.

 

[Slick]

It was a little rabbit that taught children in my day. My mum used to run the local Tufty Club.

Either way, the Tufty Club still lives more or less in the memory.

 

[rogerzilla]

It sounds like a deviant yiffy fraternity in these less innocent times!

 

[mjr]

I don't think they teach it any more. Three times today, I had people step or (in one case) ride out into the road without even a single look. They're all going to be mown down by silent electric cars, aren't they?

Drivers won't be as reluctant to sound the horn as you seem to be to use your bell!

 

[Fab Foodie]

Yes you're right. Having a grey moment.

He was a red squirrel....

 

[Fab Foodie]

Headphone zombies are quite an issue, bells are useless against 98db of Adele splitting your brain cells....

 

[Slick]

Schools went back here last week. They didn't need headphones to distract them, I was amazed at those wandering seemingly aimlessly staring at their screens.

 

[snorri]

He was a red squirrel....

Pffff, squirrels or rabbits?
It wasn't cars they taught us to look out for, it was the tyrannosaurus.

 

[Badger_Boom]

It was a little rabbit that taught children in my day. My mum used to run the local Tufty Club.

I accused my girlfriend of having the road safety skills of Willy Weasel earlier. It didn’t go down well.

 

[Slick]

I accused my girlfriend of having the road safety skills of Willy Weasel earlier. It didn’t go down well.

Context is critical before replying to this.

 

[Badger_Boom]

Headphone zombies are quite an issue, bells are useless against 98db of Adele splitting your brain cells....

I nearly took one out today.

I also wonder if the quiet roads of lockdown are what has led to a spate of zombies walking straight across side roads without looking. I seem to encounter someone doing this every time I turn into our street off the main road.