Trivial things that make you annoyed beyond expectations?

[Accy cyclist]

Talking to a young lad who works on a local supermarket's check out the other day, we got on the topic of cars and the insurance rates. I pay about £230 a year for my insurance. He told me he's is the same, but monthly not yearly! And that's for a mere 1.0 Vauxhall Corsa with a speed controlling black box fitted. He pays £2760 a year! You could buy a decent run around for that much money.


Edit...Just remembered. He also told me his car is 10 years old, so I'd say his annual insurance is probably more than the value of the car it covers.

 

[Oldhippy]

Talking to a young lad who works on a local supermarket's check out the other day, we got on the topic of cars and the insurance rates. I pay about £230 a year for my insurance. He told me he's is the same, but monthly not yearly! And that's for a mere 1.0 Vauxhall Corsa with a speed controlling black box fitted. He pays £2760 a year! You could buy a decent run around for that much money.


Edit...Just remembered. He also told me his car is 10 years old, so I'd say his annual insurance is probably more than the value of the car it covers.

Good maybe he will consider a more ecological form of transport as a consequence.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Good maybe he will consider a more ecological form of transport as a consequence.

A good point: his insurance is about the same as my Bakfiets cost nine years ago, and the Bakfiets still works.

 

[youngoldbloke]

Being told gleefully by weather forecasters that we are in the midst of a heatwave when there's hardly a glimpse of sun, and the temperature struggles to reach 20'C. We don't all live in London and the south east

 

[Asa Post]

Being told gleefully by weather forecasters that we are in the midst of a heatwave when there's hardly a glimpse of sun, and the temperature struggles to reach 20'C. We don't all live in London and the south east

You've been watching the HCBC*

*Home Counties Broadcasting Corporation

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Being told gleefully by weather forecasters that we are in the midst of a heatwave when there's hardly a glimpse of sun, and the temperature struggles to reach 20'C. We don't all live in London and the south east

But 20C is heatwave on this island!

 

[PeteXXX]

Any use of the word 'Simply'.
From that point on you know it will be anything but..

 

[Accy cyclist]

Good maybe he will consider a more ecological form of transport as a consequence.

Do you work and if so is it 10 miles or more from home? This lad told me that he lives 10 miles away, when we talked about how much fuel costs and how much we spend on it each week. He leaves the supermarket at 11pm when it closes. Do you think it's safe to say cycle or maybe use a horse and cart to get home, especially that late at night? His car has a small engine, with limited speed. My car has a small engine and very low emissions, hence the £30 'road tax' a year. I had to make a 14 mile journey yesterday. Yes, I could've spent £7.50 on a return bus ticket, but instead I put the £7.50 in my fuel tank, which will get me about 35 miles. The bus only runs every hour and stops running at 5pm. 'Ecological' transport sounds ok, but it isn't practical for most of us.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Being told gleefully by weather forecasters that we are in the midst of a heatwave when there's hardly a glimpse of sun, and the temperature struggles to reach 20'C. We don't all live in London and the south east

Where do you live? According to the forecast, in Northern Ireland and Scotland it's wet and windy. Here in east Lancashire it was very warm yesterday, but we didn't get that 'killer heat' the media have warned us about.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Do you work and if so is it 10 miles or more from home? This lad told me that he lives 10 miles away, when we talked about how much fuel costs and how much we spend on it each week. He leaves the supermarket at 11pm when it closes. Do you think it's safe to say cycle or maybe use a horse and cart to get home, especially that late at night? His car has a small engine, with limited speed. My car has a small engine and very low emissions, hence the £30 'road tax' a year. I had to make a 14 mile journey yesterday. Yes, I could've spent £7.50 on a return bus ticket, but instead I put the £7.50 in my fuel tank, which will get me about 35 miles. The bus only runs every hour and stops running at 5pm. 'Ecological' transport sounds ok, but it isn't practical for most of us.

I understand this is the case for some people, ironically especially for people with low incomes like your cashier who really would benefit from being able to cycle to work.

However, I think often people assume it's harder than it really is, or want to live in a way that requires them to have a car, and then claim it's "impractical" to live any other way.

 

[DCBassman]

Mis-use of 'carbon'. Your bike is carbon-reinforced plastic. Your 'zero carbon' is zero carbon dioxide. Makes as much sense as calling water dihydrogen...
I know, REALLY trivial.

 

[Threevok]

People's idea that stainless steel is just "one thing" and that it's not magnetic

 

[Accy cyclist]

I understand this is the case for some people, ironically especially for people with low incomes like your cashier who really would benefit from being able to cycle to work.

However, I think often people assume it's harder than it really is, or want to live in a way that requires them to have a car, and then claim it's "impractical" to live any other way.

That doesn't answer my question though, does it!

 

[Andy in Germany]

That doesn't answer my question though, does it!

I didn't realise your question was aimed at me, or that I had to answer it in order to make another point.

However, until about 6 months ago I worked in a physically demanding job about 10 miles from home and I cycled to work.

I've just spent a long time looking for an apartment within 10k (6 ish miles) of work; it took longer to find an apartment because I limited myself to this radius because of commuting; that was my choice so I can't complain about it.

This is my point; many people assume living car free is "impractical" because they make other decisions that force them to use a car. As someone else said: "People saying it's "impossible" to live without a car usually haven't tried it and found to be too difficult, they've assumed it's too difficult and never tried."

Not everyone has the choice, but I think a lot more people have a choice but believe, or choose to believe they don't because it's easier, or what they've been told, and blame the "situation". I think this is a problem in a number of areas, not just car use: people follow the easier path and then blame external factors for their life choices.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I didn't realise your question was aimed at me

It was aimed at @Oldhippy, who seems to think that no matter how small cars are and how 'eco friendly' they are they are all bad!