(22 Feb 2016, 4:53 pm)Andreos1 wrote My first nomination goes to the driving instructor getting his learner driver to practice parallel parking about 250yds down the road from St Leonards in Durham. At chucking out time.
(22 Feb 2016, 4:53 pm)Andreos1 wrote We haven't had a new thread for a while - so let's start one.
I imagine there will be lots of nominations, so will start it off.
My first nomination goes to the driving instructor getting his learner driver to practice parallel parking about 250yds down the road from St Leonards in Durham. At chucking out time.
(22 Feb 2016, 4:53 pm)Andreos1 wrote We haven't had a new thread for a while - so let's start one.
I imagine there will be lots of nominations, so will start it off.
My first nomination goes to the driving instructor getting his learner driver to practice parallel parking about 250yds down the road from St Leonards in Durham. At chucking out time.
(22 Feb 2016, 7:08 pm)Adrian wrote Brilliant. I appreciate that everyone needs to learn, but it's too unpredictable for kids weaving in and out of parked cars. I feel sorry for the learner to be put into that situation.
(22 Feb 2016, 7:24 pm)BusLoverMum wrote Oh, god, that poor learner driver. It'd be like driving through a herd of sarcastic sheep!
(22 Feb 2016, 7:29 pm)James101 wrote I endured a similar experience during my actual test! The pressure must have helped as I passed that attempt unlike the first one where I failed on a reverse-around-corner on a cul-de-sac.
(30 Mar 2016, 6:30 pm)Andreos1 wroteBloke on the train.Must have been sitting there 2 hours before he suddenly remembered about the Burger King in his rucksack.
He was looking gloomy and suddenly perked up, before rummaging and pulling out a soggy, brown bag.He devoured the 'sweaty' chips and disected his burger in minutes.
(02 Apr 2016, 8:45 pm)Jimmi wrote My contribution for this thread today, although it's technically numpties of the day:Happens all the time at the crossings by the university at Haymarket. I was amused, the other week, to discover that nothing whatsoever has changed in the
Had a short stopover in York this morning on my trip, decided to get some snaps of Transdev's new CityZap service during this time, got one shot which is the one on my Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/FuCWdC but I fancied another, so I walked a bit further up the road outside the rail station, there was another two enthusiast's getting photos of it so I walked a bit further up the road to where a pelican crossing was and there was two woman stood there in my way chatting away without a care in the world, after one minute I thought, they are going to stay there until the lights change, after two minutes I discovered that they hadn't pressed the button so I had to press it for them, had I not pressed it goodness knows how long they would have been there! Annoying when the lights changed they took their sweet time to cross and annoyingly the CityZap had pulled off the stand and was sat at the lights. Managed to get a shot, just!
I know this makes me come across as an arsehole but it amazes me how people will stand at a pelican crossing and not press the button and expect the lights to change for them!
(03 Apr 2016, 8:00 pm)GX03 SVC wrote They finished mid-morning
(06 Apr 2016, 10:44 am)BusLoverMum wrote The traffic on the a1 at Washington services is currently horrendous. I suspect our x21 driver wishes he'd gone through birtley.
Anyhow, just saw a true numpty somehow turn their car about 40 degrees and drive right into the big concrete central reservation, before righting themselves and driving off, a headlight down.
(06 Apr 2016, 11:31 am)NK53 TKT wrote Thanks for the info, I have just told my mam just I am heading north on the A1 to my house from London, I Am currently in the Newark area
(06 Apr 2016, 10:44 am)BusLoverMum wrote The traffic on the a1 at Washington services is currently horrendous. I suspect our x21 driver wishes he'd gone through birtley.
Anyhow, just saw a true numpty somehow turn their car about 40 degrees and drive right into the big concrete central reservation, before righting themselves and driving off, a headlight down.
(06 Apr 2016, 2:19 pm)BusLoverMum wrote Nowhere to make one. I couldn't work out how he'd done it without being drunk or half asleep. It's a completely straight section of road.
(05 Jul 2016, 6:56 pm)Jimmi wrote Me! - I went to the gym tonight but instead of taking my card to scan to enter the gym, I took my Railcard. Fortunately I realised as soon as I left the house, otherwise I would have felt a right prat wondering why my card won't scan. [emoji1]