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?
12 January 2012, 07:00 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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Or another thing is the drivers who do 40 in a 60 THEN do 40 in a 30
12 January 2012, 09:02 PM
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12 January 2012, 09:45 PM
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Think it is just the Image/noise of an Impreza I drive through a village on my way to take my little lad to school at well under the speed limit as theres kIds everywhere that time of day and the lollipop lady looks disgusted at me everytime she's see the car then stares at us all the way up the road but the lollipop man on the end of the road sees us that much he now nods at us think he likes to see the car in a mornin rather than all the people carriers maybe he's a Scooby owner and forgets he's in a bright yellow jacket and not a scoob
13 January 2012, 11:22 AM
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Noisy exhaust plus tottering in 2nd gear. WILL cause complaints because you have an engine buzzing at 3000rpm.
Drop it into 4th or 5th instead and you won't get the same issue. Oh hang on, scoobs don't have enough torque to pull at 25mph in 4th. tsk tsk.
As for the 40mph everywhere brigade...shoot them at dawn!
Drop it into 4th or 5th instead and you won't get the same issue. Oh hang on, scoobs don't have enough torque to pull at 25mph in 4th.
tsk tsk.As for the 40mph everywhere brigade...shoot them at dawn!
13 January 2012, 07:58 PM
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I get the token old people in the village waving, head shaking or even praying to my car all because of the noise. Something that seems to particularly enrage them is if you blip the throttle on a downshift. This is all whilst doing 30mph or less!
On a different note, I was driving down a single track road in the lakes, had good cross views due to a low dry stone wall so I opened the scoob up a bit. Whilst driving towards a 90 degree right hand bend an old woman dressed in full hiking gear (sticks and all) jumped out of the bush to my nearside and started to shout "SLOW DOWN" which I could actually hear over the top of my scoob. She had even enlisted the help of a local farmer who was stood near her shaking his head. The poor sods must have heard me coming for miles! I had to stop in the nearest passing place just to contain my laughter. The piece of road in question was a national limit and when they jumped out I was doing around 30 mph
On a different note, I was driving down a single track road in the lakes, had good cross views due to a low dry stone wall so I opened the scoob up a bit. Whilst driving towards a 90 degree right hand bend an old woman dressed in full hiking gear (sticks and all) jumped out of the bush to my nearside and started to shout "SLOW DOWN" which I could actually hear over the top of my scoob. She had even enlisted the help of a local farmer who was stood near her shaking his head. The poor sods must have heard me coming for miles! I had to stop in the nearest passing place just to contain my laughter. The piece of road in question was a national limit and when they jumped out I was doing around 30 mph
13 January 2012, 08:06 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.
, but at the end of the day, i am who i am, and i drive in a way i feel comfortable with. and yes i hope to god i never, ever hit anyone.
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