Youâre right @Lyn ... very few townies (Forkers excepted of course) know how to reverse properly ... but they canât possibly admit that and apologise so they just sit there and look arrogantly at folk expecting everyone else to reverse and that gets right up everyoneâs nose ... doesnât it @Hostafan1 ? đÂ
Growing up on a farm and living in the country for most of my life Iâm quite happy to slip into reverse gear and show them how to do it đ ... if white-haired retirees can do it that easily it makes them look such plonkers in front of their family đ€ŁÂ
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Youâre right @Lyn ... very few townies (Forkers excepted of course) know how to reverse properly ... but they canât possibly admit that and apologise so they just sit there and look arrogantly at folk expecting everyone else to reverse and that gets right up everyoneâs nose ... doesnât it @Hostafan1 ? đÂ
Growing up on a farm and living in the country for most of my life Iâm quite happy to slip into reverse gear and show them how to do it đ ... if white-haired retirees can do it that easily it makes them look such plonkers in front of their family đ€ŁÂ
it's the " I'm just going to sit here , staring straight ahead, avoiding eye contact " types who get on my tits. Almost as if , "if I don't look at you, then you're not there" , kinda thing.
Yes @Hostafan1 ... thatâs my point. ... if youâre unsure/diffident about reversing on narrow roads with high hedgebanks and a lot of foliage then put your hand up, acknowledge that itâs not your right of way but that you know youâre rubbish at reversing, so please would you mind doing it ... and thank you very much.
Donât think that would get up noses half as muchÂ
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Yes @Hostafan1 ... thatâs my point. ... if youâre unsure/diffident about reversing on narrow roads with high hedgebanks and a lot of foliage then put your hand up, acknowledge that itâs not your right of way but that you know youâre rubbish at reversing, so please would you mind doing it ... and thank you very much.
Donât think that would get up noses half as muchÂ
but some folk just can not admit such failings, so they pretend you're not there.
I love the story my SiL tells. She was driving across a single track country causeway going to drop something off her mumâs house, with a steep drop either side and no passing places. She had right of way and was more than three quarters of the way across when an arrogant tourist drove up to her front bumper at speed, beeping and yelling, then insisted she reverse. She rightly refused and told the idiot to back up a few yards. He refused and there was a stand-off. As mumâs house was just across the field, she got out, abandoned her car and walked. Idiot then had to reverse said few yards then circumnavigate the village the long wayÂ
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I'm sure I've told it before here but my aunt marched up to a refusnik's car, opened his door, ordered him out, got in, reversed it back a few feet and then left him sitting rather shamefaced while she and the half dozen cars behind her swept past him sitting in a passing place (staring straight ahead and pretending he couldn't see them all). That was back in the 70s, before central locking and everyone having a video camera in their pocket. I wouldn't advise it now - you'd get done for taking a car without permission or some such.
I reverse using my wing mirrors @Lyn - years of driving estate cars with dogs in the back who generally stand up when I stop and block the rear view. I find it easier. I do often meet people who simply can't drive backwards more than a car length without veering into a hedge - and there aren't many tourists round here.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
âIt's still magic even if you know how it's done.âÂ
Never trust a person who drives a car who's roof is higher than shoulder level. They think the size of the car will compensate for their driving inadequacy.
If a person in a high vehicle indicates, it tells you that their indicators are working - nothing more.
Speaking of inadequacy, the louder the exhaust the bigger the need for 'companionship '
Some townies can drive reasonably well without scaring the four legged or even the two legged rural types.
Town or country - avoid the school run at all costs. Even your high perch phaeton with JCB tyres will not protect you from the helicopter yummy mummy.
Scaring cyclists that insist on riding 2 or 3 abreast on narrow lanes is a good pastime. My son in his delivery van goes mad at them, He says...while theyâre on their bikes saving the planet heâs chugging along in 2nd gear puffing out black smoke.Â
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.Â
I do my best to avoid the local resorts in July and August and stay off the roads that go in that direction but I do still go to the market at Les Sables d'Olonne - endless points opportunities for people out on bikes, hiring those 4 wheeler 4 seater pedal thingies, jogging, walking, crossing without looking, often with pushchairs, not sticking to clearly marked pavements and cycle lanes........
Scaring cyclists that insist on riding 2 or 3 abreast on narrow lanes is a good pastime. Â
Not scaring cyclists, but just a much fun - back in the late 50's my father was in the RAF and we based in Germany just across the border from Holland. Whenever we went into Holland dad got annoyed that cyclists would all put their hands on the car at traffic lights.
One day he'd had enough, so as the lights changed he drove off quickly and had the satisfying sight of a bunch of cyclists in a heap on the road behind him. Satisfying that is until he was pulled over by the police and told he wasn't allowed to do that and not to do it again. To be fair to the police officer, he was having great difficulty keeping a straight face whilst telling Dad off. Very different world in those days, just a few years really after WW2, and British servicemen could do no wrong in the eyes of the Dutch.
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Growing up on a farm and living in the country for most of my life Iâm quite happy to slip into reverse gear and show them how to do it đ ... if white-haired retirees can do it that easily it makes them look such plonkers in front of their family đ€ŁÂ
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Almost as if , "if I don't look at you, then you're not there" , kinda thing.
Donât think that would get up noses half as muchÂ
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I reverse using my wing mirrors @Lyn - years of driving estate cars with dogs in the back who generally stand up when I stop and block the rear view. I find it easier. I do often meet people who simply can't drive backwards more than a car length without veering into a hedge - and there aren't many tourists round here.
âIt's still magic even if you know how it's done.âÂ
My son in his delivery van goes mad at them, He says...while theyâre on their bikes saving the planet heâs chugging along in 2nd gear puffing out black smoke.Â