Things you'd like to say, but can't

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ColinJ

ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
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Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
"Do you really hate your little girl?"

I suppose that I could have said it, but your average parent wouldn't take kindly to a question like that. Mind you, your average parent wouldn't let their pre-school age toddler hurtle down a hill like this on their tiny pink bicycle! :eek:

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I was grovelling up in my (deliberately overgeared) 39/14 ratio and suddenly heard a child shouting "Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!". I looked up and saw the girl plummeting down the pavement. Mum (I assume that it was her) was hundreds of metres back up the hill, strolling along chatting to her young son.

I really hope that disaster didn't strike behind me! I came back down the hill 5 minutes later and couldn't see the family so I assume that all was well in the end...
 
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ebikeerwidnes

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Z’ha’dum
ColinJ said:
"Do you really hate your little girl?"

I suppose that I could have said it, but your average parent wouldn't take kindly to a question like that. Mind you, your average parent wouldn't let their pre-school age toddler hurtle down a hill like this on their tiny pink bicycle! :eek:

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I was grovelling up in my (deliberately overgeared) 39/14 ratio and suddenly heard a child shouting "Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!". I looked up and saw the girl plummeting down the pavement. Mum (I assume that it was her) was hundreds of metres back up the hill, strolling along chatting to her young son.

I really hope that disaster didn't strike behind me! I came back down the hill 5 minutes later and couldn't see the family so I assume that all was well in the end...
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You can;t always tell what they will do

My daughter was always a very sensible risk averse child
She had a decent bike when she was about 9 and when we went out with it she always had a death grip on the brakes when we went down the VERY steep hill leading to our road
It was all I could do to get her to go fast enough to keep up with me at walking speed!!!

Anyway - one day we got to the bottom of the hill and found we had forgotten something - so I started to go back up to get it while my (now ex) partner stayed at the bottom. My daughter wanted to come back up with me.

WHen we got to the top she asked if she could go back to her Mum while I looked for the missing thing
I checked she was OK with it and promised to go slow as usual - she di


I got to the bottom of the hill a couple of minutes later and a bloke met be coming up and said my daughter had crashed and broken her arm

Turns out that she had decided to try going down the hill without braking!!!
as she got near the corner (did I mention the sharp right and left chicane at the bottom???) she got worried and decided (her word) to close her eyes
She magically got round the corner but seems to have locked her wheels after it and crashed into a fence guarding an old staone arch and flown off and cleared the whole corner of teh fence and landed in a heap on the other side
(pretty impressive if you ask me)

She was very shocked but was fine


but all that was totally against her normal character - before or after
kids are unpredictable
 
Bazzer

Bazzer

Setting the controls for the heart of the sun.
Location
On the edge of reality
Substitute boy for girl and I had a similar one last night at Manchester Airport.
Mrs B and I were two of many passengers disgorged from an Airbus A330, who were stood around the baggage reclaim conveyor belt. As suitcases were being pulled from the belt by passengers at various stages of the belt travel, a 4 - 5 old boy decided he would like to stand alongside the conveyor belt running his hand over the rubber plates and suitcases. In order achieve this, he would join the many morons who stand right next to the belt looking towards the oncoming luggage. Does this some how magic your luggage arrival more quickly?
Anyway, the boy's father had no idea as he was there, as he was one of said people standing next to the belt and he had his back to the child. The mother meanwhile some 2.5 meters or so from the belt simply says "Toby don't stand there". The child heard her and choose to carry on running his hand over the plates and suitcases. This was followed by "Toby, please don't stand there."
What I really wanted to say was your child could get seriously injured unless you move him. What actually said was "Yes, that's going to work." Mrs B looked slightly embarrassed, mother ignored me and the child carried on ignoring his mother.
As it happened, rather than being injured by another passenger, the child was very nearly felled by his own father. The mother let the boy continue alongside the belt. The father snatched one of their cases from the belt a split second after it passed him and just as he further turned to drag the case over the lip of the conveyor he was faced with his son in the way.
 
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Alex321

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Location
South Wales
Bazzer said:
he would join the many morons who stand right next to the belt looking towards the oncoming luggage. Does this some how magic your luggage arrival more quickly?
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It gives you a fair chance of picking it up the first time round, rather than having to wait until it goes all the way around again.

I have no idea why you think that makes people "morons". It is clearly and obviously the most sensible thing to do unless you are not at all bothered about time.
 
T4tomo

T4tomo

Legendary Member
Alex321 said:
It gives you a fair chance of picking it up the first time round, rather than having to wait until it goes all the way around again.

I have no idea why you think that makes people "morons". It is clearly and obviously the most sensible thing to do unless you are not at all bothered about time.
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No, if everyone stood a meter or two back from the belt you could all see cases approaching more easily and then have the time and space to step forward and retrieve yours when it come, and then you wont risk being felled by a heavy suitcase not quite under control by its owner.

Being stood two or three inches from the belt edge is plain daft.
 
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Alex321

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Location
South Wales
T4tomo said:
No, if everyone stood a meter or two back from the belt you could all see cases approaching more easily and then have the time and space to step forward and retrieve yours when it come, and then you wont risk being felled by a heavy suitcase not quite under control by its owner.

Being stood two or three inches from the belt edge is plain daft.
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Two or three inches off it is pretty daft, yes. But if you stand a metre back, somebody else will move in front of you.

Yes, it would be better overall if everybody did that, but they won't. A foot to 18" back means people don't really have room to get in front of you, but gives you some space.
 
Andy in Germany

Andy in Germany

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Location
Rottenburg am Neckar
Bazzer said:
As it happened, rather than being injured by another passenger, the child was very nearly felled by his own father. The mother let the boy continue alongside the belt. The father snatched one of their cases from the belt a split second after it passed him and just as he further turned to drag the case over the lip of the conveyor he was faced with his son in the way.
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That is what we in the trade call a "learning experience".

Although I'm willing to bet that at the moment of impact it immediately became the Husband/Dad's fault...
 
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Alex321

Guru
Location
South Wales
matticus said:
So basically you only stand as close as the other morons do.

;-)
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If you want to call them that, go ahead. But there is no basis for it other than disliking what they do.

I want to get out of the airport as quickly as I can, particularly on the homeward journey. So I'm not going to stand so far back that I can't get my cases the first time they come round. I do stand as far back as I can consistent with that.

I really don't understand why anybody would think this "moronic".
 
Bazzer

Bazzer

Setting the controls for the heart of the sun.
Location
On the edge of reality
Alex321 said:
It gives you a fair chance of picking it up the first time round, rather than having to wait until it goes all the way around again.

I have no idea why you think that makes people "morons". It is clearly and obviously the most sensible thing to do unless you are not at all bothered about time.
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T4tomo said:
No, if everyone stood a meter or two back from the belt you could all see cases approaching more easily and then have the time and space to step forward and retrieve yours when it come, and then you wont risk being felled by a heavy suitcase not quite under control by its owner.

Being stood two or three inches from the belt edge is plain daft.
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^^^This^^^
Time is irrelevant. The suitcase/s is/are not going to arrive any faster with its owner standing by the belt. Indeed, if time was so precious, seconds could be saved by those for whom it was so, by seeing their case/s well in advance and walking ahead to meet the case and pull it from the belt.
Personally, it's one "excuse me" to the person closest to me standing by the belt who is not preparing to grab a nearby bag and if the message doesn't get through, my bag will create the space.
 
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