I'm too much of a wuss to speak to drivers who park with their engines running, because quite frankly you don't know what the response will be and l'm a delicate little soul .
I can get that you don't always want to approach a complete stranger - especially when you are complaining about their thoughtless behaviour. I don't rant and rave - start with the typical "English" approach along the lines of "Hi, how are you ? Are you stuck, got a problem with your vehicle ? or similar - you usually get a concerned look and a polite response whereby you then go on to say "it's just that your vehicle is so close to my house and garden that the noise and the stink of your exhaust is a problem so just wondered whether you could switch off whilst you are parked ?" In nearly every case, the driver apologises ( didn't think, didn't realise ) and either switches off or drives away. So far, I've only had 1 rude response - that from a Tesco delivery driver who parked whilst using his phone and engine running. When I approached him ( after some 10 minutes), he accused me of listening in to his private phone call ( me and everyone else in the vicinity it was so loud !! ). I was eventually allowed to speak and suggested he switch off - engine rather than brain as that was obviously already off. I did try complaining to Tesco but didn't get very far. As far as Coaches/buses are concerned, the companies themselves weren't over helpful either - it took a bit of prodding from the local council as well as myself to make them realise this was an issue that wasn't going to go away. I think most drivers aren't aware that they are possibly committing an offence under the traffic regs. A £20 fine I believe ? The cost of fuel doesn't seem to have quite as much impact as we are led to believe either. A somewhat different scenario in the likes of a SM car park but it's always worth asking to speak to the SM manager - how far you would actually get is anyone's guess but the more customers complain, it may eventually get thru. After all, the car park belongs to the SM and they can set the rules.
Sorry @AnniD - as you can probably tell it's something that T's me off no end.
We have some of the bang, bang twits round here too, even worse some of them have stickers with their names emblazoned on them. If there were any traffic cops any more, they would be such an easy pinch. On the other note someone my uncle knew had an old classic RR. He admitted once that he went home for lunchtime, getting ready to leave searched the house for car keys, as a last resort, went to the car. Sure enough not only were the keys in the ignition it was ticking over. It was so quiet he hadn't realised. Just as well petrol was cheap then, it only did about 12mpg when moving so lord knows how much it used ticking over for an hour on his driveway.
I bought some Jersey Royal spuds today. There were in a wrapper which meant you couldn't actually see them. I expected them to be quite small but a couple of them weren't far short of the size of maincrop. Not impressed.
The reason we moved away from the horse and cart was partly driven because of their pollution. Mountains of horse poo in cities and horse corpses on the streets...
I can actually remember gardeners being quite grateful for the horse manure - not so much the corpses I'll admit - unless you lived in France of course However, personally speaking I'd find it healthier and more useful to pick up the odd barrow load of horse shit ( it's a horsey area here ) than I would trying to capture the excess emissions and make use of it
My curmudgeon are. We have having plumbing issues with the downstairs toilet, AGAIN. Ndn has finally had an old derelict shed taken away. 2 days afterwards, my wife saw a large rat scurrying around the pots on our patio, in dull daylight too. Coincidence? I think not. 😡
One of my neighbours was a large bloke and very unhealthy. One cold day he came outside and started his car to defrost it and then went back inside the house. A couple of hours later the car was still running and he hadn't come back out. We were convinced he was dead. We had to draw lots on who was going to go and knock on his door to check. It turned out he'd just fallen asleep and wasn't very pleased about being woken up.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
BBC radio is currently airing a trailer ( if that's the right word ) for women's sport. " On podium and in stadiums" Surely the worlds foremost media organisation could use podia and stadia? Or maybe TV and Radio should called Mediums? Social mediums ? !
Folk would probably complain they’re being elitist if they did that @Hostafan1 … especially Nadine Dorries … don’t want to give her an excuse to stick her knife in again …
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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I think most drivers aren't aware that they are possibly committing an offence under the traffic regs. A £20 fine I believe ? The cost of fuel doesn't seem to have quite as much impact as we are led to believe either.
A somewhat different scenario in the likes of a SM car park but it's always worth asking to speak to the SM manager - how far you would actually get is anyone's guess but the more customers complain, it may eventually get thru. After all, the car park belongs to the SM and they can set the rules.
Sorry @AnniD - as you can probably tell it's something that T's me off no end.
On the other note someone my uncle knew had an old classic RR. He admitted once that he went home for lunchtime, getting ready to leave searched the house for car keys, as a last resort, went to the car. Sure enough not only were the keys in the ignition it was ticking over. It was so quiet he hadn't realised. Just as well petrol was cheap then, it only did about 12mpg when moving so lord knows how much it used ticking over for an hour on his driveway.
However, personally speaking I'd find it healthier and more useful to pick up the odd barrow load of horse shit ( it's a horsey area here ) than I would trying to capture the excess emissions and make use of it
We have having plumbing issues with the downstairs toilet, AGAIN.
Ndn has finally had an old derelict shed taken away. 2 days afterwards, my wife saw a large rat scurrying around the pots on our patio, in dull daylight too. Coincidence? I think not. 😡
" On podium and in stadiums"
Surely the worlds foremost media organisation could use podia and stadia?
Or maybe TV and Radio should called Mediums?
Social mediums ? !
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.