ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Post your tales below.
The rules:
Ok, I'll start with a real jaw-dropper that I encountered on today's ride ...
I was heading down a narrow hilltop lane when I spotted a car coming towards me. There was room for us to safely pass each other only ... the driver could not see me. Her children could see me - they were looking out from the back seats and the passenger seat. The driver was busy staring into the screen of a laptop balanced on the dashboard behind the steering wheel! She was too short to see over the top of the screen so every now and then she popped her head up for a quick glance at the road ahead. In between glances the car meandered about the road. I decided that the best thing to do was to dive for the LHS of the road and keep out of her way!
I don't know if she was using the laptop as a SatNav, watching a movie with her kids, using Facebook, Twitter, etc. but whatever it was that she was doing, she certainly was NOT keeping her eyes or attention on the road!
The rules:
- You had to witness the imbecility and nobody should have been seriously injured or killed. I don't want to read endless tales of people being maimed or killed. They deserve threads of their own and this one would rapidly become very depressing if they featured here. I'm looking for 'Phew, that was close!' or 'Serves the idiot right!' NOT 'I will not be able to sleep after seeing that!' ...
- The driver has to have been a bit more stupid than usual. For example - driving 10 mph over the speed limit doesn't count. Getting a high vehicle stuck under a low barrier would!
Ok, I'll start with a real jaw-dropper that I encountered on today's ride ...
I was heading down a narrow hilltop lane when I spotted a car coming towards me. There was room for us to safely pass each other only ... the driver could not see me. Her children could see me - they were looking out from the back seats and the passenger seat. The driver was busy staring into the screen of a laptop balanced on the dashboard behind the steering wheel! She was too short to see over the top of the screen so every now and then she popped her head up for a quick glance at the road ahead. In between glances the car meandered about the road. I decided that the best thing to do was to dive for the LHS of the road and keep out of her way!
I don't know if she was using the laptop as a SatNav, watching a movie with her kids, using Facebook, Twitter, etc. but whatever it was that she was doing, she certainly was NOT keeping her eyes or attention on the road!