Car owning idiocy thread ×341

[Drago]

Another piece of car idiocy observed this morning.

While walking muttley I tend to bimble past the village shop. Of course, motorists being lazy tend to drive there, and then I often see them driving the 200 metres home again.

Anyway, parking isn't a real problem. Its a fairly Q main drag through the village. One car pulls away from the kerb, and eventually another fills the gap. No real problem there per se beyond laziness.

The idiocy comes in when a car comes along and instead of parallel parking neatly into the space the driver decides to drive in (or dive in) front first. This nececessitates driving the front of the car up onto the path outside the door to the shop in order to access the space.

Aside from being unlawful, dangerous, and injurious to the cars mechanical health, it's an obscenely stupid and antisocial thing to do, but I guess laziness overrides other considerations.

 

[gavroche]

Should be be driving at all if she cannot perform a basic manoeuvre?

Luckily, all her driving is about going forward. She very rarely uses reverse gear.

 

[Brandane]

Luckily, all her driving is about going forward. She very rarely uses reverse gear.

Do you know of any driving instructors (maybe even a retired one) who could perhaps teach her how to reverse?

 

[mjr]

Luckily, all her driving is about going forward. She very rarely uses reverse gear.

Can't be French, then. From what I've seem, they reverse around whole car parks, at speed, with gay abandon.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Another piece of car idiocy observed this morning.

The idiocy comes in when a car comes along and instead of parallel parking neatly into the space the driver decides to drive in (or dive in) front first. This nececessitates driving the front of the car up onto the path outside the door to the shop in order to access the space.

Aside from being unlawful, dangerous, and injurious to the cars mechanical health, it's an obscenely stupid and antisocial thing to do, but I guess laziness overrides other considerations.

Makes life extremely difficult for anyone in a wheelchair too. The standard response is "But I don't see anyone in a wheelchair" as if that makes the point void.

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

Had one wednesday dropping off his mate, that stopped beside a gap in the middle of a row of parked cars on his right just to right hand side of the white line. His mate in the passenger side then threw the door open directly into traffic, and got out, then had a bit of a chat before closing the door and allowing the road to reopen.
There's a free and unmonitored car park 10 feet to his left.

 

[Poacher]

Makes life extremely difficult for anyone in a wheelchair too. The standard response is "But I don't see anyone in a wheelchair" as if that makes the point void.

Exactly the same logic as I've heard from drivers occupying the advanced stop zone at traffic lights when I've pointed out the error of their ways: "There wasn't a bike here when I arrived".

 

[Andy in Germany]

Exactly the same logic as I've heard from drivers occupying the advanced stop zone at traffic lights when I've pointed out the error of their ways: "There wasn't a bike here when I arrived".

I had the same when I asked a driver to slow down to the required 7km/h on a 'Play Street'.
"I don't see any children here"
I pointed out that was because their parents were afreid they'd get hurt by the speeding cars.
I then cycled in front of him for the length of the street at 7km/h, just in case he didn't know what that meant. I'm sure he appreciated this.

 

[gavroche]

Can't be French, then. From what I've seem, they reverse around whole car parks, at speed, with gay abandon.

My wife is from Yorkshire and was never taught French driving style.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Car driving encourages sloth (to a degree). The gym I used to go to had the crossfit machines by the big windows on the second floor and I used to watch the hilarious car parking as I exercised. Despite a big car park beside the gym and a very large car park for the football stadium right beside that I watched people parking in motorbike bays, on the pavement, in disabled bays, loading bays, drop off areas and so on - I swear if the doors had been wide enough, someone would have parked in the foyer.

And this was people going to the gym to exercise!

 

[mjr]

Car driving encourages sloth (to a degree). The gym I used to go to had the crossfit machines by the big windows on the second floor and I used to watch the hilarious car parking as I exercised. Despite a big car park beside the gym and a very large car park for the football stadium right beside that I watched people parking in motorbike bays, on the pavement, in disabled bays, loading bays, drop off areas and so on - I swear if the doors had been wide enough, someone would have parked in the foyer.

And this was people going to the gym to exercise!

Reminds me of the local gym and leisure centre. About 50 cycle parking spaces, often nearly full despite ¾ of them being close-fitting things unusable by any slightly deviant bicycle, and about 250 car parking spaces, rarely all used, with two-fifths being used as extra parking by the nearby college. So what did they do? Built another 241 car parking spaces and 6 (yes, six - I think that was the policy minimum for the extra building they were doing) more cycle parking spaces nowhere near the entrance. Great way for the gym to encourage exercise, eh?

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

How many motorists does it take to change a light bulb?

Don't know. Can't get the buggers to stop!

 

[Mugshot]

[QUOTE 5448775, member: 9609"]And as for scraping in days when you are in a desperate hurry, you only need do a letter box size patch then you can have extra fun pretending you're driving a tank in some winter warfare scenario.[/QUOTE]
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-46309322

 

[nickyboy]

Cars don't rust if you leave them outside these days. So the purpose of the garage, to protect a vehicle from the elements, is irrelevant

So garages are useful dry storage for all sorts of stuff. And why bother putting a car in a garage when you will only have to open it up again to get it out? I'll put up with a few frosty days scraping in return for hundreds of times I don't need to faff about unlocking and locking garage doors

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Cycle to gym, don't go in, cycle back - cut the middle man and costs.