> Tony Dragon btinternet.com> wrote:
>

>> Steve Firth wrote:

>>> Peter Hill nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>>

>>>> I'd like to see them do all the people that reverse off their
>>>> driveways every damn morning. 10ft of car across pavement, boot
>>>> hanging into road and still can't see for the damn shrubbery they have
>>>> planted to block their view.

>>> Ooh yes, them as well.
>>>

>>>> How hard is it to give a cop a camera and put him on a street with
>>>> lots of cars parked front on in driveways for 2 hours in the morning?

>>> How hard is it for the morons in question to reverse into their drive? I
>>> used to have a house with a drive that was too narrow to turn around in,
>>> and needed to get a LWB Land Rover, a Citroen BX and a Mercedes onto the
>>> drive each day. It realy was child's play to reverse park all three and
>>> any of the drivers in the house could do it.
>>>
>>> Currently the ueber moron trick seems to be driving forwards into the
>>> drive then exiting in reverse and failing to turn the steering wheel
>>> while doing so. The car thus ends up blocking both sides of the road.
>>> The driver then usually pulls out the mobile and packet of fags, buckles
>>> up their seatbelt, lights a fag, initiates a phone call and lurches off,
>>> holding phone to right ear with left hand and trying to change gear with
>>> the right hand.
>>>
>>> The other increasingly common trick is cutting corners when turning
>>> right. Not a little bit, but often half a car length or so. Anyone
>>> waiting at the stop line is usually treated to abuse and gestures as the
>>> moron who is too lazy to turn the steering wheel looks up for the first
>>> time and finds the side road full of vehicle.

>> You might add, the ones who have to pull into the centre of the road to
>> turn left, with larger vehicles it may be necessary, but not with your
>> average car.

>
> Those too. I can only assume that about 90%% of Nissan Micra drivers
> drive a 44 tonne truck for their day job. It's the only thing that would
> explain their need to swerve 9ft to the right of the white line before
> turning left.
>