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things I wish i'd said

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  1. SRD
    Moderator

    cycling up the hill to school. jacked up range rover needing a new muffler accelerates up behind us. then, of course, has to brake. he then winds his way through the secondary and primary kids to stop where he shouldn't and drop off kids.

    I ask if he realises that it's a 20 zone. he says he wasn't going more than 20. i then comment that in that case he needs a new muffler.

    what I should have said was 'why the hell were you accelerating up my rear-end, when you could see a car stopped ahead of you, and you had to brake 20 metres up the road anyway?'

    argh. of course, I had finished dropping my kid and was on my way long before he'd even gotten out of his car.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  2. DaveC
    Member

    Take the Reg and report to the police, School Head and Local Councillor. We do and they come round and regularly patrol the streets on approach to the school. Infact the street on aproach to the school routinely has Police Yellow Cones out to stop parents parking.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  3. steveo
    Member

    Die Rebel SCUM?

    The number of times I come away wishing I'd used more forceful, direct but less sweary language.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  4. recombodna
    Member

    I hate to be pedantic but it's a Jacked up Toyota Hilux Surf and beleive the term for the exhaust would be "Big Bore"...... You never know it may come up n the quiz... ;-)

    Posted 11 years ago #

  5. SRD
    Moderator

    is it really? I have seen a hilux with similar wheels as well, but the shape of this thing looked different. but i didn't check details. has toyota changed the shape recently?

    (a jacked-up pickup truck I understand (everyone drives pickup trucks where I come from). a rangerover struck me as really silly.)

    Posted 11 years ago #

  6. kaputnik
    Moderator

    Toyota Hilux. Perfect choice for the school run on narrow urban streets.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  7. Smudge
    Member

    Well it works for insurgents all over the planet..!
    Toyota pickups, the mid range MTB of the car world.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  8. steveo
    Member

    Only (other) vehicle I'd have after the zombie apocalypse!

    Posted 11 years ago #

  9. crowriver
    Member

    @Smudge, are you suggesting Edinburgh parents affix anti-aircraft guns, rocket launchers or heavy machine-guns to the back of their pickups as a kind of urban threat tactic to ensure they get the kids to school on time? Or maybe set up checkpoints to delay peds/cyclists out so drivers can get to school?

    Posted 11 years ago #

  10. SRD
    Moderator

    Awet n'hafash!

    Posted 11 years ago #

  11. recombodna
    Member

    "is it really" Assumng it's the same one I'm thinking about. It's the only jacked up 4x4 I've seen at the school ( and I notice these things coz secretly I would love one but I would drive it with respect Honest!!) There is a guy with a Landrover discovery that has a rattly pipe but it's not Jacked up. Anyway you think that's bad I heard some parent has been OPENING THE DOUBLE GATES!!!!! ;-) power indeed to the people!

    Posted 11 years ago #

  12. MeepMeep
    Member

    I wish I had more time and fore-thought to respond to those who insist on 'advising' me very loudly and aggressively through their open passenger windows that I should be on the cycle path/off the road/anywhere but having been in front of them with:

    "My safety is more important than ten seconds of your time especially since you don't look in full control of your vehicle mouthing off at other road users."

    I may start up this mantra in my head so it's automatically out of my mouth rather than the unladylike filth I normally go to for my retort.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  13. SRD
    Moderator

    I've definitely seen the jacked up Hilux. It maybe that the 4x4 just has monster tyres on.

    Acquaintance of mine - who lives well outside the catchment - was dropping off her kids and blocking the double gates this morning. she cycles sometimes too. I don't see why she can't park a little way off the entrance like most other sensible parents do.

    Posted 11 years ago #

  14. Smudge
    Member

    @Crowriver, they could... but on the other hand it wasn't a fleet of Toyota pickups that initially moved the stores down the Ho Chi Minh trail and helped defeat a well funded superpower!

    One should always try to select the most appropriate tool for the job ;-)

    Posted 11 years ago #

  15. Roibeard
    Member

    Something I did say - to an idiot in a convertible BMW who left hooked me to get into the left turning lane was "does your father know you drive his car like that?"

    He then burnt off at the lights, undertaking the traffic to go straight on...

    But I was grinning!

    Robert

    Posted 11 years ago #

  16. Roibeard
    Member

    @SRD - Tiocfaidh ár lá!

    I've got the balaclava, now where did I last see my ArmaLite?

    Roibeárd

    Posted 11 years ago #

  17. recombodna
    Member

    Ah the Noble art of verbal abuse.... http://youtu.be/JnPfgX82GmM

    Posted 11 years ago #

  18. SRD
    Moderator

    Who needs pickups when you have sandals made from tyres?

    Posted 11 years ago #

  19. crowriver
    Member

    @Roibeard, I thought you needed a ballot box to go along with your Armalite?

    Победа в партизаны !

    Posted 11 years ago #

  20. retrodirect
    Member

    That jacked up Hilux did a punishment pass on me on the cobbles on Eyre Place about a week ago. Was pretty scary having wheels that large coming so close.

    I wish I had had a witty comeback, I just called him a penis. It felt pretty accurate

    Posted 11 years ago #

  21. recombodna
    Member

    was it red or blue?

    Posted 11 years ago #

  22. SRD
    Moderator

    one i originally posted about was dark blue

    Posted 11 years ago #

  23. recombodna
    Member

    yeah there is a red one parked on easter road that is also jacked up. I sort of know the driver. Was wondering if that was the one that buzzed Mr Direct then I could have had a word.......

    Posted 11 years ago #

  24. TriFiona
    Member

    Hard to have witty comebacks when you're concentrating on avoiding cars and school kids with a trailer attached to the back of my bike (with toddler inside). I'm wishing for less icy mornings so I can go back to more offroad commuting!
    PS like the sandals!

    Posted 11 years ago #

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