Rant number 164
I get up every morning feeling far from cheerful about a journey to work. I've already talked about commenting in general - and the fact that it sucks.
Like always though, people seem to be trying their very hardest to piss me off in the morning.
Now, for those of you reading from outside of the UK (of which, according to the stats, there are some!) a lot of our roads are rather narrow. Now don't get me wrong, this isn't really a problem in general. The roads are plenty for 2 cars to pass safely - often with a bit of room left over to dodge cyclists, pedestrians and potholes.
The problem is though, that the roads are intended to be 2 abreast, not 2 & a bit a breast and most certainly not 3 abreast.
Which is what has been pissing me off today.
You see, people seem to think that by putting on their magic hazard lights or by just putting their wheels slightly on the curb, they can leave their car bloody anywhere.
Literally, this morning I had to wait for around 5 selfish bastards who had just left their bloody cars, vans and buses in the road. Each time, there was traffic coming the other way- meaning I had to pull in and wait for 3 or 4 cars each bloody time. Time stolen and wasted early in the morning!
Why can't people just park somewhere out of the bloody way. It's really not that bloody difficult! It's also got to increase the change of something going wrong - or an accident. Bloody people!
Just because there aren't double yellow lines, it doesn't mean its a good idea to park there. Have people not a modicum of common bloody sense!
Rant over.
Yellow lines do not make the slightest bit of difference when people have no concept of others. The part of this that really annoys me is roads like Long Lane (Jude will know it). A fairly narrow road with buses using at as part of their routes. Every house on the road has a driveway, yet a lot of the residents insist on parking on the road and causing massive tailbacks. If I had a driveway, I would make sure I used it!
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