Naughty.... but nice

[Dave 123]

Riding home tonight past one of the posh schools an illegally parked yummy mummy pulled right out on me, I had to swerve to avoid her. Then 10 yds up the road another one pulls out without looking. Mummy number 1 slams on the anchors, and I very nearly go into the back of her...
So I swerved round the Audi 4x4 she was driving and banged the back of my gloved hand against the drivers window..... she jumped out of her skin! She may have stained the sumptuous upholstery.

I know it was silly, petty and totally out of order but I really enjoyed it! I will not apologise.

 

[campbellab]

Which one did you bang? The first one or the second one?

 

[defy-one]

^^^ naughty man .... but i like your thinking

 

[Arjimlad]

Riding past schools at dropping off or picking up time is truly awful.

At least you can predict that the mummies will do whatever seems to be most daft !

 

[Dave 123]

Which one did you bang? The first one or the second one?

the first was better looking......

 

[TonyEnjoyD]

So did you then ull out on her?

 

[defy-one]

..... or nudged it through,even though she resisted

 

[Glow worm]

Riding past schools at dropping off or picking up time is truly awful.

There's a school at the end of my road and some of the dumb antics the parents get up to is really quite astonishing. I got knocked off by one woman pulling out without looking a few years back - I was fine as it was a low speed impact, but was sprawled on the road next to my bike. What happened next was truly unbelievable, instead of stopping, she proceeded to drive over my previously untouched rear wheel!

School entrances and supermarket car parks are my two least favourite places to negotiate on a bike- it's like they give away free lobotomies for drivers on approach!

 

[ianrauk]

On my commute I cycle past a school and do have a problem with the 4x4 parents dropping kids off. They think nothing of stopping on crossings, zig-zags, in the middle of the road etc.
It really is utter selfishness.

 

[Miquel In De Rain]

On my commute I cycle past a school and do have a problem with the 4x4 parents dropping kids off. They think nothing of stopping on crossings, zig-zags, in the middle of the road etc.
It really is utter selfishness.

Reminds me of cab drivers.

 

[Andy_R]

On my commute I cycle past a school and do have a problem with the 4x4 parents dropping kids off. They think nothing of stopping on crossings, zig-zags, in the middle of the road etc.
It really is utter selfishness.

The use of 4x4s in urban areas is in itself an act of selfishness, IMHO.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

The use of 4x4s in urban areas is in itself an act of selfishness, IMHO.

Many years ago my wife had an old land rover, because she was a gardener it was insured as an agricultural vehicle. We can only afford to live in a crappy little terrace house in the middle of town, so my wife had little choice but to drive her 4x4 in an urban area.

I have no problem with real 4x4s, they're tools. My thoughts on luxury 4x4s are nicely summed up by this http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2005-05-16/

 

[Hip Priest]

I remember seeing Davina McCall on an episode of Top Gear. She said she drove some gargantuan wankertank like an X5 or a Q7 in order to protect her children. Obviously, any child she happened to hit in an accident was just collateral damage.

I don't just hate 4x4s because I'm a cyclist. I hate them as a driver. In the old days, you'd only have your long-range vision obstructed by a lorry or works van, which can't be helped, but now every other car is f-ing massive.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I remember seeing Davina McCall on an episode of Top Gear. She said she drove some gargantuan wankertank like an X5 or a Q7 in order to protect her children. Obviously, any child she happened to hit in an accident was just collateral damage.

I don't just hate 4x4s because I'm a cyclist. I hate them as a driver. In the old days, you'd only have your long-range vision obstructed by a lorry or works van, which can't be helped, but now every other car is f-ing massive.

I've heard several people use the 'won't somebody think of the children' excuse for owning envirocrushers, but if I remember correctly their not terribly safe, didn't the Freelander fail every Euro safety test?

 

[400bhp]

I've heard several people use the 'won't somebody think of the children' excuse for owning envirocrushers, but if I remember correctly their not terribly safe, didn't the Freelander fail every Euro safety test?

I think they are broadly relatively safe, from a crash protection perspective.

But, then again, so are many smaller cars.

Depends on what you class 4 x 4's as too. A lot of the car brands now have the smaller versions of the big 4 x 4s

By the way, ever seen a new (post 2005) range rover driven without a personalised plate?