Too early I'm afraid, Trisha, you will have to wait until January.
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It's all right for some! Here in England it's about 10 and there's plenty of cloud in the sky .... and it's dropping water!
.... and it's dropping water! 
There are a few terms i use for some drivers i have met over the years , most i cannot use here because they will be
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, but a tamer one is prat, met a prat driver in the car park at a well known local supermarket as i was trying to find a space , i drive a old Fiesta mainly because it's easy to park anywhere , spied a space and turned towards it , as i did the following happened.
A BMW 5 series nearly chopped my nose of to get in that parking space , now i don't do road rage just sat there and watched this prat drive into the space which i knew looking at it was not really big enough for that car, but prat didn't so he got in then could not get out of his car either side , so what does prat do starts playing the game of shunt he tried to get close to the car on his left , could not get out then to the right could not get out , went forward could not get out .
By this time there were a few bermused shoppers watching this prat , so in fury he reversed with tyre's smoking into a trolly with shopping in , obviously knocking it over then pulled forward and hit the car in the bay to his right.
Things then got interesting as prat decided to get out of his car , not to help the lady whose shopping was over the tarmac but to start waving his arms about and started shouting , at this point i had a decision to make do i get out of my car and go and assist luckily i did not have to as other people had by now gathered including the chap who,s car prat had hit .
Behind me there were other cars waiting to get past , and low and behold up came two security men , one was built like the preverbial S house door , now prat started having a go at them at the same time as the lady whose shopping was all over the deck was having a go at him as well as the chap who,s car prat had hit , and it got even better prat took a swing at the S house door , who did not respond as all of a sudden you could hear the siren coming and into the car park the wrong way came the blue's and two,s in fact 2 cars .
Now there was a heated discussion it seemed between everybody as prat was now arging with the police , not a wise move , by this time the cars had reversed behind me and i thought bugger this time to get out of here , as i reversed my last thoughts as i looked at the mele was blimey i only came out to get bread and milk and why did i have to arrive at the same time as king prat.
A BMW 5 series nearly chopped my nose of to get in that parking space , now i don't do road rage just sat there and watched this prat drive into the space which i knew looking at it was not really big enough for that car, but prat didn't so he got in then could not get out of his car either side , so what does prat do starts playing the game of shunt he tried to get close to the car on his left , could not get out then to the right could not get out , went forward could not get out .
By this time there were a few bermused shoppers watching this prat , so in fury he reversed with tyre's smoking into a trolly with shopping in , obviously knocking it over then pulled forward and hit the car in the bay to his right.
Things then got interesting as prat decided to get out of his car , not to help the lady whose shopping was over the tarmac but to start waving his arms about and started shouting , at this point i had a decision to make do i get out of my car and go and assist luckily i did not have to as other people had by now gathered including the chap who,s car prat had hit .
Behind me there were other cars waiting to get past , and low and behold up came two security men , one was built like the preverbial S house door , now prat started having a go at them at the same time as the lady whose shopping was all over the deck was having a go at him as well as the chap who,s car prat had hit , and it got even better prat took a swing at the S house door , who did not respond as all of a sudden you could hear the siren coming and into the car park the wrong way came the blue's and two,s in fact 2 cars .
Now there was a heated discussion it seemed between everybody as prat was now arging with the police , not a wise move , by this time the cars had reversed behind me and i thought bugger this time to get out of here , as i reversed my last thoughts as i looked at the mele was blimey i only came out to get bread and milk and why did i have to arrive at the same time as king prat.
One of my college days transports was a 1951 Chrysler Imperial convertible - the first of the "Hemi" V-8s. It was a formidable piece of machinery:
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~ 20' long and 5500 lbs. (note, for purposes of the following, the size of the front bumper)
One day I observed the following:
The car was parked on the street in front of our house. A gentleman decided to parallel park in the space in front of it. After several failed attempts, it was clear that the space was to small. Undeterred, the driver decided to enlarge the space by backing slowly into contact with my car and pushing it back a bit! Not surprisingly, give the size of the Chrysler, this did not work. Frustrated, he pulled forward and reversed quickly, evidently intent on "bumping" a bit more space. At this point I was rousing myself from the front stairs on which I had been sitting and observing. The error of his ways was soon apparent. His rear bumper slid under the Chrysler's front armor and locked the two cars together. He got out of his car, looked, and ignoring my call to wait, got back into his car and applied full throttle in an attempt to disengage and depart. The sound of spinning tires was briefly drowned out by the sound of tortured metal, his car lurched forward and, with a loud report, his now detached rear bumper fell to the ground!
I inspected my car and, seeing no evidence of any damage, watched without comment as he once more exited his vehicle and screaming at me to look at what I had done to his car, retrieved his bumper, threw it into the rear seat and drove away.
EM
~ 20' long and 5500 lbs. (note, for purposes of the following, the size of the front bumper)
One day I observed the following:
The car was parked on the street in front of our house. A gentleman decided to parallel park in the space in front of it. After several failed attempts, it was clear that the space was to small. Undeterred, the driver decided to enlarge the space by backing slowly into contact with my car and pushing it back a bit! Not surprisingly, give the size of the Chrysler, this did not work. Frustrated, he pulled forward and reversed quickly, evidently intent on "bumping" a bit more space. At this point I was rousing myself from the front stairs on which I had been sitting and observing. The error of his ways was soon apparent. His rear bumper slid under the Chrysler's front armor and locked the two cars together. He got out of his car, looked, and ignoring my call to wait, got back into his car and applied full throttle in an attempt to disengage and depart. The sound of spinning tires was briefly drowned out by the sound of tortured metal, his car lurched forward and, with a loud report, his now detached rear bumper fell to the ground!
I inspected my car and, seeing no evidence of any damage, watched without comment as he once more exited his vehicle and screaming at me to look at what I had done to his car, retrieved his bumper, threw it into the rear seat and drove away.
EM
Lucky he didn't have a gun on him ........
Childhood trauma's? In the "good old" days when I was nasty or didn't obey to my parents they would correct that with a bit of spanking. Nothing wrong with me nowadays so I didn't traumatize me
Now by law, at least in the Netherlands, it is forbidden to spank a child. So the little buggers are completely unhandable, flew 12 hours to Singapore with a couple of those in the plane. I think half of the people in the plane were relieved when then finally got tired and felt to sleep. The parents could do nothing about it and you could see from their faces they were so ashamed they were not able to stop this.
In Singapore I saw the only solution was to hand them a phone or tablet. Really? 2 to 3 year old kids in a pram with a device in their hands? Wonder what kind of people these kids will grow up to?
Now by law, at least in the Netherlands, it is forbidden to spank a child. So the little buggers are completely unhandable, flew 12 hours to Singapore with a couple of those in the plane. I think half of the people in the plane were relieved when then finally got tired and felt to sleep. The parents could do nothing about it and you could see from their faces they were so ashamed they were not able to stop this.
In Singapore I saw the only solution was to hand them a phone or tablet. Really? 2 to 3 year old kids in a pram with a device in their hands? Wonder what kind of people these kids will grow up to?
It came up in a model boat forum of which I'm a member and it almost reached swapping blows levels! Crazy.
School Crossing Patrols........
When I learned to drive (in the mid-'70s) I was told that the Lollipop Person should keep the children at the crossing point until there's a small group gathered, then have them all cross at the same time. Also, the crossing patrol was in place for children, not adults.
Since I've begun regularly driving at school times, I've noticed two things:-
1) One parent with child will trigger the Lollipop Person stopping the traffic for them both to cross. Then as soon as LP is back on the pavement, another parent with child (or children) is approaching and the whole cycle starts again after just a couple of vehicles have been allowed past.
2) (and this one really boils my water....) After school has started, LP is still there and stopping traffic to let parents cross back after depositing their lovelies at school. The same rule as above applies - a couple of vehicles pass, LP stops traffic for 1 - or at best 2 - parent(s) to cross.
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When I learned to drive (in the mid-'70s) I was told that the Lollipop Person should keep the children at the crossing point until there's a small group gathered, then have them all cross at the same time. Also, the crossing patrol was in place for children, not adults.
Since I've begun regularly driving at school times, I've noticed two things:-
1) One parent with child will trigger the Lollipop Person stopping the traffic for them both to cross. Then as soon as LP is back on the pavement, another parent with child (or children) is approaching and the whole cycle starts again after just a couple of vehicles have been allowed past.
2) (and this one really boils my water....) After school has started, LP is still there and stopping traffic to let parents cross back after depositing their lovelies at school. The same rule as above applies - a couple of vehicles pass, LP stops traffic for 1 - or at best 2 - parent(s) to cross.
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