View Poll Results: what you do when an elderly person does the hand waive thing through a village at you
flick em
32
26.23%
slow down
8
6.56%
just waive and smile
66
54.10%
speed up
16
13.11%
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elderly people doing the slow down hand waive through the village?
09 January 2012, 08:58 PM
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have u considered that they might be trying to warn u of a speed trap ?!?! -- i've done it like that when on foot.
i'm old as well, so maybe it was me
-- did u ever get that speeding ticket ?
i'm old as well, so maybe it was me
-- did u ever get that speeding ticket ?
09 January 2012, 09:04 PM
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I had "the wave" on Saturday going through a village. I was doing 25 as there were parked cars etc. I could see them in my mirror, staring at me so as soon I dropped it in 2nd, waited for the no-limit signs and gave them the Flat 4 Concerto!
09 January 2012, 09:17 PM
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old people need to keep there little noses out, as long as we are not speeding its nothing to do with them, after all they probably cause more accidents with there slow driving and cutting people up. drive safe
09 January 2012, 10:12 PM
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i bet you half the people who posted do over the speed limit through the village but they just wont admit it haha dont worry your secret is safe with me!
dont worry your secret is safe with me!
09 January 2012, 10:15 PM
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Thanks
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09 January 2012, 10:24 PM
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make sure you are wearing a long black, baggy sleeved, full length, huge hooded coat, white face and hand make up.
Simply stop, get out, remove your wheat scythe from the boot, and stand and point at them.
Simply stop, get out, remove your wheat scythe from the boot, and stand and point at them.
10 January 2012, 10:02 AM
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The reality is that kids driving like idiots in built up areas or anywhere in their souped up 'sheds' that pose as motor vehicles and sound like a farm tractor are just as likely to have an early appointment with their maker.
10 January 2012, 05:54 PM
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Saw a kid knocked down by a van in our village; he survived because the local van driver was going under 30. Funny thing was that I had waved the boy`s father down a few weeks before, when I was walking along with my 6 year old. He had the nerve to reverse back and tell me that he had slowed down when he had seen us. As I told him, kids don`t always give you warning ( in less than polite words ) Then his own kid cycled straight out into the wing of the van. If you had seen this accident you would`nt be seeing this poll as just a laugh, especially those of you who have polled speed up. Unbelievable.
10 January 2012, 06:12 PM
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I dont live in a village, but while driving up my street if theres someone walking by most of the time they will stare at you or they even stop and stare till im in my carpark even while creeping up at 20ish or below.
Dont even need to be in the impreza either
Dont even need to be in the impreza either
10 January 2012, 06:28 PM
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Drive an impreza and they automatically think you're driving too fast 
One of my neighbours is an absolute tosser and he stopped me driving my sister's Impreza about 18 months ago and told me he was going to call the police and get Impreza's banned from our road 
For the record I was driving down the street at 10mph and the ***** in my area come through at 50mph in their saxo's etc
One of my neighbours is an absolute tosser and he stopped me driving my sister's Impreza about 18 months ago and told me he was going to call the police and get Impreza's banned from our road For the record I was driving down the street at 10mph and the ***** in my area come through at 50mph in their saxo's etc
10 January 2012, 06:30 PM
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Saw a kid knocked down by a van in our village; he survived because the local van driver was going under 30. Funny thing was that I had waved the boy`s father down a few weeks before, when I was walking along with my 6 year old. He had the nerve to reverse back and tell me that he had slowed down when he had seen us. As I told him, kids don`t always give you warning ( in less than polite words ) Then his own kid cycled straight out into the wing of the van. If you had seen this accident you would`nt be seeing this poll as just a laugh, especially those of you who have polled speed up. Unbelievable.
I hope you like prison food, a death on your conscience for the rest of your life and not being able to insure anything more powerful than an 1100 Mk1 Escort. EVER!
I also live in the New Forest and you should see the state of the cars around these parts that have hit horses or cows!
When you hit an animal you can't blame anyone but yourself.
10 January 2012, 06:36 PM
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10 January 2012, 06:44 PM
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Live in a Village and they do it when I`m driving at 25mph, so "I shout I`m doing 25", but they carry on.
So I kind of realised they aren`t telling me to slow down, but to say that they aren`t worthy!!!
So I kind of realised they aren`t telling me to slow down, but to say that they aren`t worthy!!!
10 January 2012, 06:54 PM
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Ah the old I'm going to wave insanely at you either because:
a. I'm jealous of your car
b. I'm jealous you can afford the fuel for that car
c. I'm old and have facked eyesight and hearing or no appreciation of speed
d. I'm an overly protective parent with uncontrollable kids
Ok so this happened to me last week with an old woman with a stick. On each occasion I was under the 30 limit in my village, but my scoob is quite loud, not overly, but noticeable. The 1st time she waved her arms at me, I felt some rage building but shrugged it off. The 5th time it happened I stopped in front of her and gave her a right good old ear bashing n to be fair she held her own until the rage inside me could take it no more and I ended up smashin her crinkly old face in with the blunt end of her own stick
no that didnt happen but she did end up in floods of tears.
Now I feel bad for being innocent
Then theres the morons who say the car is "unecessary" Those ***** really get on my goat.
a. I'm jealous of your car
b. I'm jealous you can afford the fuel for that car
c. I'm old and have facked eyesight and hearing or no appreciation of speed
d. I'm an overly protective parent with uncontrollable kids
Ok so this happened to me last week with an old woman with a stick. On each occasion I was under the 30 limit in my village, but my scoob is quite loud, not overly, but noticeable. The 1st time she waved her arms at me, I felt some rage building but shrugged it off. The 5th time it happened I stopped in front of her and gave her a right good old ear bashing n to be fair she held her own until the rage inside me could take it no more and I ended up smashin her crinkly old face in with the blunt end of her own stick
no that didnt happen but she did end up in floods of tears.Now I feel bad for being innocent
Then theres the morons who say the car is "unecessary" Those ***** really get on my goat.
10 January 2012, 07:12 PM
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if your driving slow enough to see them do it your not trying, so may as well buy a skoda,,,,,,,,
Funnily enough i was driving my Fab towards my parents house (residential area) and having slowed down to let someone turn into a road end i gave it a quick boot full to get back upto (and not over) my 30mph cruising speed - the next thing i know some Dick walking with his daughter on his shoulders and wife by his side stepped into the road and pretended to shoot me with his imaginary gun. Naturally as i was within the speed limit i made sure he got both middle fingers - ****
10 January 2012, 07:58 PM
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ok, bollax to it, if i do go past an old granny and they do the hand jive, i do purposely speed up, there i said it! lol
now everyone else fess up lol
now everyone else fess up lol
12 January 2012, 04:47 PM
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Hmmmmm.............then he woke up, and was still wearing his "Rory The Racing Car" pajamas!
12 January 2012, 05:05 PM
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Why 'fess' up to something I don't do. My wife-to-be's cousin was run over and killed by a speeding driver in her parents village. Driver was doing approx 40 in the 30 zone. His name was (cousin not the driver - he was jailed) Darren and he was only 7 years old.
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I think he needs to get a life
12 January 2012, 05:09 PM
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There was a mad old woman in a village outside Aberdeen on the road to the Lecht ski center that used to stand with a high vis vest, a hairdryer, and a notepad pretending she was a trafic cop with a radar gun, she used to write all the reg numbers of cars suposedly speeding according to her highly accurate hair dryer/ radar gun and call the cops and report them lol
12 January 2012, 05:12 PM
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Why 'fess' up to something I don't do. My wife-to-be's cousin was run over and killed by a speeding driver in her parents village. Driver was doing approx 40 in the 30 zone. His name was (cousin not the driver - he was jailed) Darren and he was only 7 years old.
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12 January 2012, 05:39 PM
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There's a time and a place to put your foot down. Unfortunately the moron driving that day ignored the limit enforced for a reason. And yes, at 25-30mph like most others do in the village (tight road), he would most probably have lived (maybe severely injured but lived).
You don't joke about that sort of thing IMHO
And please,it's Andy not Brian - we're all friends in here
Long story.
12 January 2012, 05:58 PM
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Moley put it best earlier in this thread...
There's a time and a place to put your foot down. Unfortunately the moron driving that day ignored the limit enforced for a reason. And yes, at 25-30mph like most others do in the village (tight road), he would most probably have lived (maybe severely injured but lived).
You don't joke about that sort of thing IMHO
And please,it's Andy not Brian - we're all friends in here Long story.
There's a time and a place to put your foot down. Unfortunately the moron driving that day ignored the limit enforced for a reason. And yes, at 25-30mph like most others do in the village (tight road), he would most probably have lived (maybe severely injured but lived).
You don't joke about that sort of thing IMHO
And please,it's Andy not Brian - we're all friends in here
Long story.I was driving through a leafy Surrey suburb in my rep mobile a few years ago and I was only doing about 30mph, when a little girl ran out of the driveway of a big house. I slammed on the brakes, causing everything I had in the car to fly forward into the dash and foot wells. I had a Toyota Carina 'e' that had ABS and although it was a dry sunny day it still came into force before I stopped.
A split second after I had stopped still, the little girl, who couldn't stop ran into the passenger wing of my car, shortly followed by a very irate grandmother, who grabbed the little girl by the arm and pulled her back in the direction of the house.
You should have seen the filthy look that women gave me, if looks could kill.
I'm not quite sure she realised how close I had come to killing her granddaughter, but I did and it haunts me to this very day!
How different all our lives would have been if I had been going faster and not been able to stop in time.
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12 January 2012, 06:18 PM
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The thing thats gets me is when im driving in the 30/built up areas whare there could be young children playing and im doing 30 or slightly under. i am constantly tailgated by mpv's or chelsea tractors and guess what?? they have all there children inside them.
So they are quite happy to drive over 30 when there children are safe in there cars but are also quite happy to mow someone elses child down. I just sit there and hold them up and make them all do 30
. I haven't got any children but I respect other peoples children and there right to be safe whilst playing .Or another thing is the drivers who do 40 in a 60 or 40 in a 30 grrrrrrrr
.or the drivers who cant stick to there own side of the road i live on a drivers road with lots of lovely corners fab done at 60mph but the amount of people who do 40mph then cut the corners even on tight blind bends is soooo scary and not nessasary for them to cut as they driving so slow to begin with its just down to laziness whilst driving and no need for it
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12 January 2012, 06:33 PM
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The thing thats gets me is when im driving in the 30/built up areas whare there could be young children playing and im doing 30 or slightly under. i am constantly tailgated by mpv's or chelsea tractors and guess what?? they have all there children inside them.
So they are quite happy to drive over 30 when there children are safe in there cars but are also quite happy to mow someone elses child down. I just sit there and hold them up and make them all do 30
. I haven't got any children but I respect other peoples children and there right to be safe whilst playing .Or another thing is the drivers who do 40 in a 60 or 40 in a 30 grrrrrrrr
.or the drivers who cant stick to there own side of the road i live on a drivers road with lots of lovely corners fab done at 60mph but the amount of people who do 40mph then cut the corners even on tight blind bends is soooo scary and not nessasary for them to cut as they driving so slow to begin with its just down to laziness whilst driving and no need for it
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