taxi4ballet Posted November 22, 2012 Author Share Posted November 22, 2012 Those aggravating little bits of intricately folded paper bearing instructions etc that you get in packs of tablets. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiz Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 Oh, don't! They always uncurl and get in the way when you try to put the card of pills back inside 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTL Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 Those aggravating little bits of intricately folded paper bearing instructions etc that you get in packs of tablets. In very small print! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted November 23, 2012 Author Share Posted November 23, 2012 Where are my glasses? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Not that I particularly wanted to revive this thread, but ...  Mums (and occasionally dads, let's be fair) with pushchairs on buses who totally ignore the social niceties:  I was on a double-decker the other day, sitting in the seat facing the wheelchair space behind the stairs, feet on the ground and by no means sticking out particularly. Certainly there was ample room to manoeuvre a buggy into the wheelchair space. So why did the mum in question feel it necessary to run the buggy - hard - over not just my toes, but my entire instep. Twice? I can still feel the bruising. If I *was* in her way, she could simply have said "excuse me".  That's not to mention the several times I've seen people in wheelchairs being treated as completely inanimate objects by buggy owners. Apparently the fact that their feet have the temerity to protrude past the end of the wheelchair's footplates is quite enough to justify trying to slice their toes off (or just crush them) with any appropriate part of the buggy, The thought that there might not actually be enough room to put an unfolded buggy in the wheelchair space along with a wheelchair just doesn't seem to occur to them. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted March 21, 2013 Author Share Posted March 21, 2013 Anyone advertising their Easter event with the word: Â Eggs-travaganza. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 Moving house 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted April 22, 2013 Author Share Posted April 22, 2013 Cyclists who ignore red lights at roadworks. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porthesia Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 Cyclists who ignore red lights full stop! Also M40 on a Sunday - seen some of the most appalling driving yesterday. Can't believe everyone has a duff indicator and as for cutting people up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anjuli_Bai Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 Ok - I give up - what is a "duff indicator"? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swanprincess Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 i think its a car indicator light that doesnt work properly, so the driver just abruptly turns a corner without indicating- i may be wrong?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anjuli_Bai Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 A direction signal - like for a move to the right or left turn and/or change of lane? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 That's the one Anjuli! It is soooooo irritating when drivers do not bother to indicate and can be very dangerous. I had to do an emergency stop a couple of months back when a car who must have been in the wrong filter lane suddenly decided he could cut in front of me without warning.  Another bugbear of mine is driver who only have one headlight working - and it always seems to be set on full beam. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anjuli_Bai Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 I had a friend who, when someone failed to use the direction signal, would pull up alongside and say: "You might want to fix your left/right signal - it's not working - before an officer stops you and gives you a warning."  I thought that was very clever and got the point across without actually saying anything nasty - and even seeming to be helpful!.  However, - I wouldn't recommend it. No telling what kind of insane response one might get. But it was creative.  By the way...."filter lane" - interesting. I think we would call that a "merge lane" or an "exit lane/ramp" or "entrance merge/ramp" or even a "freeway split lane" where the freeway splits into two and  one decides to go here or there or (based on one's driving skills) "hither and yon."  Just kidding. No matter what it is called the most tangled mass of ramps/merges/splits, etc., is in Los Angeles where several interstate and local freeways come together. I usually just close my eyes and pray. Of course, I'm not driving - I would NEVER drive anywhere near Los Angeles. I don't even like thinking about it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 Last time I said that to a taxi driver I got a mouthful of abuse for my pains!  When I mentioned the filter lane I meant (although it wasn't a freeway - if that is a motorway?) the road was splitting in two.  I would call an "entrance merge/ramp" a slip road.  For me, a merge lane is where, eg, 3 lanes merge into 2. I particularly hate merge lanes around traffic lights. A couple of weeks ago a car came hurtling past me in the merge lane and I thought he was taking a bit of a chance trying to get past me. He did not stop at trying to get past me, he also nearly passed the lorry in front me me - the lorry had to veer into the inside lane to avoid him and the car in the inside lane had to brake very sharply to avoid going in to the back of the lorry!  Two nations divided by a common language! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anjuli_Bai Posted April 22, 2013 Share Posted April 22, 2013 Well, if you folks would kindly stop driving on the wrong side of the road.....it would certainly help the language. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porthesia Posted April 23, 2013 Share Posted April 23, 2013 People who hang around doctor's waiting rooms when they don't have an appointment. Yesterday there were 2 ladies with a double pushchair and a single pushchair and thus 3 children. The lady with one child actually had an appointment, the other lady with 2 children who ran all round the surgery was just there with the first lady. Then there was the mother and father with a small baby with yet another pushchair and then suddenly the grandma, auntie and some other randam child turned up to sit and wait with them! Last place I ever want to be is a doctor's surgery yet they willing went and sat there!  Fortunately I managed to get a seat as I seem to be have vertigo at the moment! Very unpleasant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted April 23, 2013 Author Share Posted April 23, 2013 Has anyone else noticed this - the larger, newer and more expensive the car, the more likely it is that their indicators don't work... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porthesia Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Now that you mention it taxi .... at one time it used to be a particular make of car that was prone to indicators not working, but it does seem to have spread, spooky ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porthesia Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Alison, hope the house move is .... moving! Joking aside hope it's going well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dance*is*life Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 It was I believe mentioned in passing, but the mobile phone mania is one that gets my goat! People sit in restaurants at the same table, but talk loudly (of course) on their mobiles to other people at the same time, or they walk along the street talking loudly or wait in queues talking loudly or cross streets without looking because they're talking loudly on their mobiles, but the worst one is the cars that pootle along in the middle lane and when you eventually manage to pass them, you can see they are texting whilst driving!  1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Pedestrians and cyclists wearing headphones that cut out so much noise they are completely unaware of their surroundings. As both a pedestrian and a motorist I have had some very near misses because of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anjuli_Bai Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Wearing headphones while either cycling or driving is illegal in California.  It is also illegal to be holding a cell phone while driving is illegal. I do believe it is ok to have the cell phone on a handset - but one cannot be texting or calling while driving.  Of course, this doesn't stop pedestrians.  When I was a child only old ladies walked around seemingly talking to themselves. Now that I am old - I am in good company as all the younger people have joined me. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2dancersmum Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 Its illegal to be on a cell phone while driving in the UK too but it doesn't stop people.  Add to my hates - joggers wearing headphones and running with their backs to traffic so that they can't see you either. People on horses riding 2 or 3 abreast so that they can chat, making it impossible to safey overtake and last but not least when the hunt comes off the fields and onto the country lane so you have loads of horses and masses of little dogs running around in front and behind you. I may sound like an impatient driver - I'm not but last time the hunt joined the road I was on it took 20 minutes (and was terrifying) before the cars caught up in the middle were able to drive away. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ann Williams Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 Re. Porthesia's posting about people in doctors' waiting-rooms, I couldn't agree more. Over the last year I've had to attend a local A&E department a few times  (leg-in-plaster syndrome..) and I've seen apparently entire families, including grandparents,  spending hours there waiting while one of their numbers gets seen to. - they appear to see it as an enjoyable excursion! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted April 25, 2013 Author Share Posted April 25, 2013 People who think that shop doorways are a good place to stand and have a chat with their friends. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted April 25, 2013 Share Posted April 25, 2013 Did I mention people who get off the end of an escalator and then just stop dead, leaving everyone else inevitably to run into them? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted April 26, 2013 Share Posted April 26, 2013 Especially when you are dashing down the escalator for the train standing at the platform ready to go! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa O`Brien Posted April 26, 2013 Share Posted April 26, 2013 If you`re in a cafe or restaurant, and you`ve got a mouthful of food or drink, when a waiter/ress walks past and asks if everything is alright. You have to just nod and grunt like a mad thing.Two minutes later, a different one comes along and asks you the same thing [while you`re stuffing your face again.].!!!! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anjuli_Bai Posted April 26, 2013 Share Posted April 26, 2013 Many years ago I saw a one block street that clearly ended at the Pacific Ocean. There was a sign on that street as one faced the ocean:  "Not A Through Street"  Duh 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted April 27, 2013 Author Share Posted April 27, 2013 Dodgy grammar in adverts.  A double glazing firm used to advertise every week in our local paper proclaiming:  "We use Pilkington K Glass, because we don't know any better"  I know what they were trying to say...! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dance*is*life Posted April 27, 2013 Share Posted April 27, 2013 (edited) Even worse than standing chatting in shop doorways is people standing and smoking in them, because legally they are outside the shop and can smoke. I won't go into the shop if I have to hold my breath in order to pass through the smoke. Edited April 27, 2013 by Dance*is*life 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted April 29, 2013 Author Share Posted April 29, 2013 Worse still - groups of teenagers standing just around the corner from the school gates at lunchtime, and smoking... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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