Doug wrote:
> On 19 Sep, 08:59, Adrian
gmail.com> wrote:>> Tony Dragon
btinternet.com> gurgled happily, sounding
>> much like they were saying:
>>>>>>> Where are these overflowing pub car parks?
>>>> Most places on a Friday and Saturday evening.
>>> Open your eyes, & just because a car is in a pub car park does not
>>> mean the driver is drinking.
>>
>> Even if it does, it doesn't mean the car's going to be driven by a
>> drunken person - many pub car parks are still fairly full on a
>> Saturday or Sunday morning, with cars which have been left there
>> overnight. I'd have thought Duhg'd approve of that, since they're
>> not "road garaged"...
>>
> But the strong temptation to drink and drive is there. You can't tell
> me that someone who reels out of the pub drunk is going think
> carefully about leaving the car there and walking home instead.
Yes Doug, as suprising and incredible as it may be to you many people do
just that. Oh, it may help you to know that only a very small minority of
people "reel out of the pub drunk". The vast majority leave whilst still
sober.
>>> Where you & I live there is no problem with PT late at night, in
>>> other areas there aint no PT at night.
>>
>> Or in the day, in many places...
>>
>> But that - as we keep being reminded - is purely down to The Evil
>> Car. Nothing to do with economic reality, oh, no.
>>
> The Evil Car continues to be allowed to exist in massive quantities,
Because of people from your generation.
> and their drivers are allowed to kill with relative impunity, because
> of economics and short-sighted policies.
Evidence?
> If you engineer work/
> lifestyles around cars they will be become indispensable and that was
> the mistake made in the first place.
That mistake was made by people of your generation Doug.
