Driving Pet Peeves

[lapsedhibee]

Could you not have a taken another photo until you got one he liked?

:faf:

[O'Rourke3]

Could you not have a taken another photo until you got one he liked?

:not worth

[Jones28]

Could you not have a taken another photo until you got one he liked?

:faf::faf::faf:

[silverhibee]

Could you not have a taken another photo until you got one he liked?

:thumbsup:

[hibee_girl]

I’ll start this by saying absolutely everyone on the roads annoyed me today but specifically people who don’t understand traffic lights.

I was on salamander court turning left onto salamander street when the car in front of me slams their brakes on because they thought the traffic lights as they turned were for them.

Also the roadworks that appeared today at Albion Road and Brunswick Road can do one. 15 minutes it took me to get down St Claire Street earlier.

Rant over, for now :greengrin

[J-C]

I’ll start this by saying absolutely everyone on the roads annoyed me today but specifically people who don’t understand traffic lights.

I was on salamander court turning left onto salamander street when the car in front of me slams their brakes on because they thought the traffic lights as they turned were for them.

Also the roadworks that appeared today at Albion Road and Brunswick Road can do one. 15 minutes it took me to get down St Claire Street earlier.

Rant over, for now :greengrin

This is happening all too often, cars turning right or left and seeing the lights for the cars coming the other way and thinking it's for them, bloody dangerous.

[RyeSloan]

This is happening all too often, cars turning right or left and seeing the lights for the cars coming the other way and thinking it's for them, bloody dangerous.

I don’t know where this has came from. Never seen it until a few years ago and now appears to be relatively common.

It’s so dumb it’s almost incomprehensible.

[Wembley67]

I don’t know where this has came from. Never seen it until a few years ago and now appears to be relatively common.

It’s so dumb it’s almost incomprehensible.

I've seen loads of cars being caught out by this coming from the M9 slip onto New bridge....quite frightening!

[hibee_girl]

This is happening all too often, cars turning right or left and seeing the lights for the cars coming the other way and thinking it's for them, bloody dangerous.


I don’t know where this has came from. Never seen it until a few years ago and now appears to be relatively common.

It’s so dumb it’s almost incomprehensible.


I've seen loads of cars being caught out by this coming from the M9 slip onto New bridge....quite frightening!

I’m so glad it’s not just me that comes across these people 😄

[McD]

Watched an idiot drive onto a roundabout this evening, then proceeded to stop completely to fiddle with his phone whilst still on the roundabout, as traffic tried to navigate around him, then just started driving off without even checking for other moving traffic around his car

[Smartie]

There’s something in the water at the minute. I had to drive a very short journey after walking to pick up my partner and kids and on d 5 minute journey there were 3 absolute imbeciles of various descriptions.

My mate cycles in from Gullane to his work in Edinburgh and has taken to having a camera on the front of his bike. He puts the worst of what he encounters in compilations on Facebook and some of what he has to put up with is staggering.

I know I wouldn’t be putting up with it and he’s almost certainly going to be killed making that journey one of these days imo.

[speedy_gonzales]

I know I shouldn't get "raging" at such behaviour, but I really do wonder what people are thinking about when they drive like a character from the Mad Max franchise.
Coming home from a nightshift, 6am, roads are quiet and I'm crossing north-south on Gillespie crossroads, notice a car coming from Juniper Green that almosts goes through a red light, as I head towards Colinton he's up my tail, he's definitely jumped that red.
Going in to Colinton village, I slow to the posted 20 and they're all over my backside before recklessly pulling out as another car is coming towards us and tears off up the hill past the Colly Inn.
Guesstimate, he's doing 40/50 through the lights.

Why?

[Hibrandenburg]

I know I shouldn't get "raging" at such behaviour, but I really do wonder what people are thinking about when they drive like a character from the Mad Max franchise.
Coming home from a nightshift, 6am, roads are quiet and I'm crossing north-south on Gillespie crossroads, notice a car coming from Juniper Green that almosts goes through a red light, as I head towards Colinton he's up my tail, he's definitely jumped that red.
Going in to Colinton village, I slow to the posted 20 and they're all over my backside before recklessly pulling out as another car is coming towards us and tears off up the hill past the Colly Inn.
Guesstimate, he's doing 40/50 through the lights.

Why?

Could be suffering from Microphallus Syndrome :dunno:

[Wembley67]

It would be great if we could arrange a track day or something with the main contributors of this thread and be officially assessed for our skills 😲

[hibee_girl]

Someone was driving up the wrong way in the car park at ocean terminal today. How difficult is it to follow arrows?

[overdrive]

Someone was driving up the wrong way in the car park at ocean terminal today. How difficult is it to follow arrows?

I genuinely think a lot of people don't think signage applies in car parks.

[Speedy]

Someone was driving up the wrong way in the car park at ocean terminal today. How difficult is it to follow arrows?

There were dozens of them when I was there :greengrin

[McD]

I genuinely think a lot of people don't think signage applies in car parks.


I’d tweak your response to say a lot of people don’t think signage applies to them

[Wilson]

There were dozens of them when I was there :greengrin

🤣

[hibsbollah]

Not intending to victim blame - PB was clearly in the right - and not excusing drivers ignoring rules of the road, just saying it's a fact that drivers often don't see cyclists, and a good strategy for dealing with the fact that some drivers sometimes don't see cyclists is to assume that all drivers may or will not see you. PB and you and I are perched on maybe 15kg of metal, drivers are safe inside 2 tonnes of it. It's not a question of anyone being out to get anyone else, it's just self preservation in a hostile (15 v 2000) environment.

I just caught up with this and agree completely. I cycle through town into work 30 mins each way and in that hour I am constantly expecting mad behaviour, parked car doors opening without warning, electric bikes and deliveroo ***** coming past at high speed. I go way slower than i need to and my bike is capable of. Being ultradefensive is the only way to do it. Never speak too soon of course, but i feel safe most of the time and i cycle at the busiest times of the day, and id encourage anyone to do it really. The cycle lanes are a game changer. The city is broken for cars.

Goes without saying theres always a chance that what happened to PB will happen, whatever the situation, and no blame is attached.

[Pretty Boy]

To go back to traffic lights how bad are people for jumping red lights now?

You always got the old 'amber gambler' but it seems amber now just means go or speed up to make sure you get through rather than only go if you have passed the stop line or it's safer to continue. Red now seems to mean stop unless you are behind the guy who has just tore through on amber then you can continue as well.

I don't drive home often but when I do I have to use the Wisp crossroads. The traffic coming from Duddingston Road South is a joke: at least 2 cars jump the red light on every cycle. No wonder there is an accident every few weeks. Someone is going to be killed before long, nothing surer.

[O'Rourke3]

To go back to traffic lights how bad are people for jumping red lights now?

You always got the old 'amber gambler' but it seems amber now just means go or speed up to make sure you get through rather than only go if you have passed the stop line or it's safer to continue. Red now seems to mean stop unless you are behind the guy who has just tore through on amber then you can continue as well.

I don't drive home often but when I do I have to use the Wisp crossroads. The traffic coming from Duddingston Road South is a joke: at least 2 cars jump the red light on every cycle. No wonder there is an accident every few weeks. Someone is going to be killed before long, nothing surer.

That Junction should be changed to one at a time rather than alternate direction traffic. It's nearly impossible for cars to turn left or right in any direction hence all the jumping.

[Keith_M]

To go back to traffic lights how bad are people for jumping red lights now?

You always got the old 'amber gambler' but it seems amber now just means go or speed up to make sure you get through rather than only go if you have passed the stop line or it's safer to continue. Red now seems to mean stop unless you are behind the guy who has just tore through on amber then you can continue as well.

I don't drive home often but when I do I have to use the Wisp crossroads. The traffic coming from Duddingston Road South is a joke: at least 2 cars jump the red light on every cycle. No wonder there is an accident every few weeks. Someone is going to be killed before long, nothing surer.


I was driving in the west end in Glasgow on Sunday, slowed down to stop at a traffic light, and some maniac overtook us on the wrong side of the road. He flew through the lights, narrowly missing the cars that, by then, were going through the green light at the other junction.

That was one of the worst of recent cases but, IMO, driving in general seems to have got a lot worse since the end of lockdown.

[Gatecrasher]

I done something that I'm not necessarily proud of today, I was driving along lower Granton road and the car in front was driving 10 ish mph the whole way, stopping nearly every time a car was approaching the opposite direction to let them by, I got so frustrated I overtook when a safe opportunity presented it's self. I know I shouldn't have on a road like that but it was just soo slow!

[speedy_gonzales]

I done something that I'm not necessarily proud of today, I was driving along lower Granton road and the car in front was driving 10 ish mph the whole way, stopping nearly every time a car was approaching the opposite direction to let them by, I got so frustrated I overtook when a safe opportunity presented it's self. I know I shouldn't have on a road like that but it was just soo slow!
I don't think you've done anything wrong there, broken white lines so you're allowed to overtake. As long as you didn't breach the posted max limit then what's the issue?
Both my car and motorbike instructors instilled in me that safe "progress" is what it's all about.

[Gatecrasher]

I don't think you've done anything wrong there, broken white lines so you're allowed to overtake. As long as you didn't breach the posted max limit then what's the issue?
Both my car and motorbike instructors instilled in me that safe "progress" is what it's all about.

I think because it was done out of frustration and on a tight road, I would have no issue doing this on a Country road. But in the city felt wrong. I would have done the same to a cyclist so I think it's ok.

[overdrive]

I think because it was done out of frustration and on a tight road, I would have no issue doing this on a Country road. But in the city felt wrong. I would have done the same to a cyclist so I think it's ok.

Its perfectly fine.

My current peeve is folk sticking to the outside lane in queued up traffic and then not allowing anyone in the inside lane in when a bus lane starts.

I live near the roundabout at the South Gyle Access road and the South Gyle Industrial Estate. If I'm going out between 5 and 6 Mon-Thu, the traffic is queued right back from the lights at Bankhead, over the roundabout and back towards the Gyle. Turning left from South Gyle towards Bankhead (really second left due to the small road that goes into the school/Nova Scotia Way), I go into the inside lane which is completely empty and is a normal lane for a reasonable distance up to roughly the rugby club where the bus lane starts for the remainder of the stretch to the lights at Bankhead. Then it is a pain in the backside to get into the outside lane as hardly anyone wants to let you in as it seems to them that you've just been a dick to bypass the queue. It is what you are meant to do! Even if I didn't do that and waited to try get into the outside lane right from the off at the roundabout, I'd be waiting even longer as even less people let you in.

Which brings me to another issue. The amount of people who block a roundabout in such instances. If I want to instead turn right at the roundabout to go towards West Gate Farm/the Gyle (or straight on into the industrial estate), I can't because everyone blocks the roundabout queuing to go towards Bankhead and nobody lets you through.

[matty_f]

To go back to traffic lights how bad are people for jumping red lights now?

You always got the old 'amber gambler' but it seems amber now just means go or speed up to make sure you get through rather than only go if you have passed the stop line or it's safer to continue. Red now seems to mean stop unless you are behind the guy who has just tore through on amber then you can continue as well.

I don't drive home often but when I do I have to use the Wisp crossroads. The traffic coming from Duddingston Road South is a joke: at least 2 cars jump the red light on every cycle. No wonder there is an accident every few weeks. Someone is going to be killed before long, nothing surer.

Driving standards have undoubtedly gotten worse - you’re spot on with the red light jumpers, I see it virtually every day now.
Speeding, ignoring incoming traffic priority signs, just going at give way junctions and roundabouts when it’s patently not safe to do so, speeding, parking.

I think a fair bit of this comes from the rise of professional drivers in the big economy world - Uber/Uber Eats etc who rely on quantity of orders completed to earn a living.

I was coming down Clermiston Brae the other night and the lights changed to green for cyclists heading down the hill (which were the lights I was waiting at) which meant that the lights for traffic coming from the left must be on red, and a woman came speeding out the junction. Thankfully there was no cyclist there, but had there been they’d have stood no chance.

[O'Rourke3]

Not a peeve so much as joining in. Walking the dog earlier and nearing a railway bridge. Said bridge has a priority direction as you can't get two cars through at the same time. The big van who wasn't about to give the correct priority slammed on the brakes when he realised the car with priority was already coming through. Thankfully there's a "lay by" for him to almost hit the bollards. I don't think we were far off from being swerved into from behind. There was no way he was diving at the posted 30 either.

[CropleyWasGod]

Chesser Avenue.

[overdrive]

The state of road markings in the city. In particular, the bit of the West Approach Road going westbound just after Lothian Road, the road markings are just about non-existent. I'm surprised there's not more wee accidents due to it. Quite a few examples elsewhere as well.

[McD]

Selfish drivers: approaching a 90ish degree left hand curve, with a council truck parked partly on the opposite kerb, one side of the vehicle still on the road. A double decker bus was approaching from the opposite direction, the obstruction (truck) is on his side of the road, but he just piled on through, on my side of the road, forcing me to brake hard to avoid crashing into him.

[Just Alf]

The state of road markings in the city. In particular, the bit of the West Approach Road going westbound just after Lothian Raod, the road markings are just about non-existent. I'm surprised there's not more wee accidents due to it. Quite a few examples elsewhere as well.Funnily enough I had a near miss a few weeks ago there and a girl at my work actually had a wee bump , they decided it was t cutttable so didn't rake it further.
It's bad enough on 'normal' roads but the secton we're talking about has the lanes moving over to allow for a bus stop then a cycle lane then cuts back over once the cylcel lane ends :-/

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[patch1875]

The state of road markings in the city. In particular, the bit of the West Approach Road going westbound just after Lothian Raod, the road markings are just about non-existent. I'm surprised there's not more wee accidents due to it. Quite a few examples elsewhere as well.

Yeah no one has a clue where the lanes are.

Queen street at Fredrick street is bad as well not helped by the lane changing direction.

[matty_f]

Yeah no one has a clue where the lanes are.

Queen street at Fredrick street is bad as well not helped by the lane changing direction.

The state of the roads across Edinburgh is a nightmare for that. I thought it was me at first, maybe just my eyesight getting worse as I’m getting older but I can see a difference on properly marked roads.

[Wembley67]

The road markings at Newbridge were a nightmare until they were redone maybe a year or so ago. Felt drivers just closed their eyes and moved forward half the time 😭

[Just Alf]

In the great scheme of things surely road markings are 'relatively' cheap for the benefits in traffic flow?

I did think when the lines were all redone on lothian road at the end of the approach road it was only a matter of time until that was done too, especially as it seemed like it needed it more in the first place! :rofl:

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[lapsedhibee]

Selfish drivers: approaching a 90ish degree left hand curve, with a council truck parked partly on the opposite kerb, one side of the vehicle still on the road. A double decker bus was approaching from the opposite direction, the obstruction (truck) is on his side of the road, but he just piled on through, on my side of the road, forcing me to brake hard to avoid crashing into him.

'Might is right.'

[Scouse Hibee]

These idiots cutting about on the Quad bike and electric bikes around Edinburgh. Just saw them on the Glasgow Road, came out of the side road by the BBQ chippy and deliberately crossed the traffic to head towards Corstorphine in the wrong side of the road into oncoming traffic. WTF are they all about.

[Jim44]

Tossers who refuse to acknowledge 20 mph restrictions and have a go at folk who do. I understand their frustration but their behaviour is unbelievable. I was driving through Howgate towards Edinburgh at 20 mph and there’s a woman behind, who can’t overtake because of oncoming traffic and clearly wants me to speed up. She is literally two yards from my rear bumper and I can see her shaking her head and glaring at me. She gives me a couple of toots for good measure. As we pass the end of speed restriction sign, she’s still up my arse as I begin to pick up speed. She still can’t overtake right away, but when she can, she gives me the flashing lights and puts the foot down to overtake. There’s a car turning right at the wee road out of Penicuik. The driver gauges my speed and correctly sees he has time to safely exit. He doesn’t see the lunatic behind me who is now tearing up the road on the wrong side. Fortunately there is just about time for her to brake heavily and slow down but it was really hairy.

[matty_f]

Tossers who refuse to acknowledge 20 mph restrictions and have a go at folk who do. I understand their frustration but their behaviour is unbelievable. I was driving through Howgate towards Edinburgh at 20 mph and there’s a woman behind, who can’t overtake because of oncoming traffic and clearly wants me to speed up. She is literally two yards from my rear bumper and I can see her shaking her head and glaring at me. She gives me a couple of toots for good measure. As we pass the end of speed restriction sign, she’s still up my arse as I begin to pick up speed. She still can’t overtake right away, but when she can, she gives me the flashing lights and puts the foot down to overtake. There’s a car turning right at the wee road out of Penicuik. The driver gauges my speed and correctly sees he has time to safely exit. He doesn’t see the lunatic behind me who is now tearing up the road on the wrong side. Fortunately there is just about time for her to brake heavily and slow down but it was really hairy.

I sometimes use my daughter’s car, she’s 18 so to get insured at a semi reasonable cost she had a black box fitted, which means I have to be really careful with speed limits when I’m borrowing it.

20 limit roads are horrendous for folk being impatient and getting frustrated but you would be amazed at how many repeat that behaviour at 30,40,50,60, and 70 limits. We’re almost at the point that, for a very high proportion of drivers, most of the rules of the road simply get ignored with speed limits being completely redundant in some areas.

[Since90+2]

Id say the majority of drivers ignore the 20mph limit to be honest.

At a guess most are going along at 25ish on them.

Don't agree that it's the same for the higher limits though, I'm my experience 30/40/50 ect are, for the most part, adhered to.

[Jim44]

Id say the majority of drivers ignore the 20mph limit to be honest.

At a guess most are going along at 25ish on them.

Don't agree that it's the same for the higher limits though, I'm my experience 30/40/50 ect are, for the most part, adhered to.

I would agree but this is more about the idiots who lose the plot with 20mph.

[J-C]

2 gripes in 1 here, people turning right at a crossroads.
A) not going far enough right so no one can pass on the inside.
B) going too far past the turn and then having to do an almost u turn to turn right.

[overdrive]

I got stuck behind a guy at the lights at Corstorphine Tesco the other night - on Meadow Place Road heading towards the Drumbrae Roundabout. The lights changed several times and he didn't move despite me beeping the horn at him. Eventually lights changed again and he edged forward, only to stop at which point I twigged this guy doesn't know how junctions with multiple different lights work. He thought the red light for the right turn meant he couldn't go - I could see him point to the red light. He eventually moved when everyone was aggressively beeping their horns. I often wonder how some folk pass their test.

[AltheHibby]

I got stuck behind a guy at the lights at Corstorphine Tesco the other night - on Meadow Place Road heading towards the Drumbrae Roundabout. The lights changed several times and he didn't move despite me beeping the horn at him. Eventually lights changed again and he edged forward, only to stop at which point I twigged this guy doesn't know how junctions with multiple different lights work. He thought the red light for the right turn meant he couldn't go - I could see him point to the red light. He eventually moved when everyone was aggressively beeping their horns. I often wonder how some folk pass their test.

I'm wondering if he's even passed a test.

[Jim44]

Driving in general just now. This is generally a bad time of the year for driving as disruptions are common as councils try to use up their remaining budget for the year. But the present is really past a joke. No matter where you go there are temporary traffic lights, ( many which don’t function properly ) diversions and road closures, often without prior warning. Nightmare.

[lapsedhibee]

The rollercoaster ride going downhill on Hope Park Terrace towards the Meadows.

[silverhibee]

These idiots cutting about on the Quad bike and electric bikes around Edinburgh. Just saw them on the Glasgow Road, came out of the side road by the BBQ chippy and deliberately crossed the traffic to head towards Corstorphine in the wrong side of the road into oncoming traffic. WTF are they all about.

They now use the cycle/pathways to get about, they can get from Muirhouse to Broomhouse in a few minutes, maybe time the council put up more barriers at entrances to stop them from getting the bikes and quad bikes on to pathways, it seems to be a losing battle though as there seems to be hundreds of them now.

[Scouse Hibee]

They now use the cycle/pathways to get about, they can get from Muirhouse to Broomhouse in a few minutes, maybe time the council put up more barriers at entrances to stop them from getting the bikes and quad bikes on to pathways, it seems to be a losing battle though as there seems to be hundreds of them now.

I knew those drums of steel cable would come in handy one day!

[tamig]

2 gripes in 1 here, people turning right at a crossroads.
A) not going far enough right so no one can pass on the inside.
B) going too far past the turn and then having to do an almost u turn to turn right.

Related. Junction of Craigentinny Road/Craigentinny Avenue travelling east. The number of folk coming up from Seafield who totally ignore the give way at the junction is unreal. I’m always extra careful when I’m turning right at that junction to head towards Porty Road. Always cars coming up and turning right having ignored the give way. Surprised there haven’t been more serious accidents.

[hibee_girl]

People who can’t drive in ocean terminal car park properly. It’s not hard., one side for going up the other for going down.

[overdrive]

Folk ignoring the one way system at the Western General, specifically at the multi-storey car park. I've been almost every day visiting my dad who has been in the Western for the past three weeks and the amount of times I've seen someone that must have gone into either the top or lower deck, not found a space, exited but turned right and driven the wrong way up the one way street to re-enter the car park on the other floor is insane. I appreciate its a badly designed car park in that you can't freely drive between the two floors but is it that much of an imposition to just drive round the block again?

Mind you that car park is a peeve in its own right. The above mentioned inability to move between the two levels; cars parked/abandoned not in an actual space; the low number of spaces to begin with; the fact that people just queue and wait once in, meaning if you are behind and realise there's no space you can't actually exit for ages to go park on the street somewhere instead; the inexplicable fear that the exit barrier is going to come crashing down on you when you are exiting one floor at the same time as someone is exiting the other floor :greengrin

[overdrive]

Not a peeve but just an absolute idiot of a driver the other night.

I was driving down Telford Road and waiting to turn into the Western. There was a car waiting to turn right out of the Western onto Telford Road. Traffic coming in the other direction cleared so I started to cross the carriageway to turn into the road into Western. Just then a car behind the car that was waiting to turn right on Telford Road but was obviously wanting to turn left onto Telford Road must have decided he couldn't be arsed waiting so overtook the car, blocking my path. I had to slam on the brakes and traffic heading up from the roundabout was oncoming again at speed who also had to stop. That's the most I've shat it driving since I crashed a car and wrote it off 20 years ago.

[BILLYHIBS]

A peeve and a warning

Being a hot day yesterday 18 degrees decided to take the grand kids to Burntisland for day on the beach

Came off the By Pass at the Cowdenbeath Burntisland turnoff only to be met by a tail back

We sat for 20 minutes in a roasting car waiting for the traffic lights to change but no luck

Turned out there were no lights but traffic was being controlled slowly by an escort vehicle

Thinking about the long delay and the journey back with tired kids we decided to cut our losses and head for Pittencrieff Park

I am sure there were other beach route options but we do not know the area

Delays expected to last for at least another 2 weeks

[pollution]

A peeve and a warning

Being a hot day yesterday 18 degrees decided to take the grand kids to Burntisland for day on the beach

Came off the By Pass at the Cowdenbeath Burntisland turnoff only to be met by a tail back

We sat for 20 minutes in a roasting car waiting for the traffic lights to change but no luck

Turned out there were no lights but traffic was being controlled slowly by an escort vehicle

Thinking about the long delay and the journey back with tired kids we decided to cut our losses and head for Pittencrieff Park

I am sure there were other beach route options but we do not know the area

Delays expected to last for at least another 2 weeks


Silver Sands beach at Aberdour is worth it. Easy to get to and park and you can see Easter Road, at a stretch

[bringbackbenny]

Silver Sands beach at Aberdour is worth it. Easy to get to and park and you can see Easter Road, at a stretch

Advise to check live traffic before heading to Silver Sands - certainly wasn't easy to park yesterday as the overflow car park hasn't yet been opened ny council, chaos 😔

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/chaos-on-scots-beach-as-police-block-road-after-hundreds-of-revellers-flock-to-coast/ar-AA1CGBzg

[BILLYHIBS]

Silver Sands beach at Aberdour is worth it. Easy to get to and park and you can see Easter Road, at a stretch

Cheers will check it out

[BILLYHIBS]

Advise to check live traffic before heading to Silver Sands - certainly wasn't easy to park yesterday as the overflow car park hasn't yet been opened ny council, chaos 😔

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/chaos-on-scots-beach-as-police-block-road-after-hundreds-of-revellers-flock-to-coast/ar-AA1CGBzg
:thumbsup:

[WoreTheGreen]

Cheers will check it out

Used to go there for our summer holidays
every year to the same b&b
As a daft kid it seemed so far away

[BILLYHIBS]

Used to go there for our summer holidays
every year to the same b&b
As a daft kid it seemed so far away

Same ( Burntisland) Rothesay and Butlins tae

Can still mind the gong for breakfast real orange juice toast and marmalade

Happy days

[WoreTheGreen]

Same ( Burntisland) Rothesay and Butlins tae

Can still mind the gong for breakfast real orange juice toast and marmalade

Happy days

Aye the land lady gave me and my brother shots each at ringing the gong
And she left us a bar six chocolate biscuit for our supper
Indeed happy days

[BILLYHIBS]

Aye the land lady gave me and my brother shots each at ringing the gong
And she left us a bar six chocolate biscuit for our supper
Indeed happy days

A bar six ?

Heaven

Bar seven better

[GreenNWhiteArmy]

The number of people that park in the parent and child bays at shops with no sign of kids or pregnancy

Mostly laziness and wanting wider parking space, imo

[O'Rourke3]

The number of people that park in the parent and child bays at shops with no sign of kids or pregnancy

Mostly laziness and wanting wider parking space, imo

As a new Dad (30 odd years back) I once had a go at a couple who had parked in the P/C space because they had two boys in the car (aged about 8 & 10). "We've got children" - "yes but I've got an infant, buggy and your children can walk. I need the space to bring a F***** buggy in." I hope they learned the lesson.... I've calmed down a bit since.

[Pretty Boy]

The number of people that park in the parent and child bays at shops with no sign of kids or pregnancy

Mostly laziness and wanting wider parking space, imo

I genuinely hate those people. When I don't have my kids I wouldn't even dream of doing it. Even when I have my daughter with me, who is 7, I don't bother if spaces are few because it's of far more use to someone with a toddler or baby and I'd rather leave a space free if it's down to the last couple.

I always thought it was one of those things people did that they were a bit ashamed about and they would try to be furtive but they are so brazen. They just don't care. It's a huge range of demographics I have seen doing it as well so it's not just a case of 'young folk' or 'middle aged men' or whatever.

[AltheHibby]

I'm one of those people who have parked in those spaces, but only because all the blue badge spaces are full of cars without badges and I need to be able to open my door wide.

[McD]

I genuinely hate those people. When I don't have my kids I wouldn't even dream of doing it. Even when I have my daughter with me, who is 7, I don't bother if spaces are few because it's of far more use to someone with a toddler or baby and I'd rather leave a space free if it's down to the last couple.

I always thought it was one of those things people did that they were a bit ashamed about and they would try to be furtive but they are so brazen. They just don't care. It's a huge range of demographics I have seen doing it as well so it's not just a case of 'young folk' or 'middle aged men' or whatever.



It’s just selfishness and laziness from the vast majority. Like you I never even consider those spaces when I don’t have my daughter with me, it’s infuriating when you see lazy pricks using them

[Just_Jimmy]

As a new Dad (30 odd years back) I once had a go at a couple who had parked in the P/C space because they had two boys in the car (aged about 8 & 10). "We've got children" - "yes but I've got an infant, buggy and your children can walk. I need the space to bring a F***** buggy in." I hope they learned the lesson.... I've calmed down a bit since.As soon as the kids can get in and out without much more than opening the door, it should be stopped.

Its so infuriating with a baby.

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[overdrive]

The number of people that park in the parent and child bays at shops with no sign of kids or pregnancy

Mostly laziness and wanting wider parking space, imo

My opinion of one particular Hibs cup winning legend dropped after seeing him do this more than once in the Tesco car park. Not the sort you'd expect it of either.

[silverhibee]

The number of people that park in the parent and child bays at shops with no sign of kids or pregnancy

Mostly laziness and wanting wider parking space, imo

Mainly Audi and bmw drivers

[silverhibee]

I genuinely hate those people. When I don't have my kids I wouldn't even dream of doing it. Even when I have my daughter with me, who is 7, I don't bother if spaces are few because it's of far more use to someone with a toddler or baby and I'd rather leave a space free if it's down to the last couple.

I always thought it was one of those things people did that they were a bit ashamed about and they would try to be furtive but they are so brazen. They just don't care. It's a huge range of demographics I have seen doing it as well so it's not just a case of 'young folk' or 'middle aged men' or whatever.

Will also add work vans and camper vans as they fit into the bigger spaces

[Jones28]

I genuinely hate those people. When I don't have my kids I wouldn't even dream of doing it. Even when I have my daughter with me, who is 7, I don't bother if spaces are few because it's of far more use to someone with a toddler or baby and I'd rather leave a space free if it's down to the last couple.

I always thought it was one of those things people did that they were a bit ashamed about and they would try to be furtive but they are so brazen. They just don't care. It's a huge range of demographics I have seen doing it as well so it's not just a case of 'young folk' or 'middle aged men' or whatever.

Likewise here, parents going in to lidl. Dad stays in the car, engine running, vaping, while mum goes in and 13 year old daughter sits in the back.

[RyeSloan]

Mainly Audi and bmw drivers

This is defo a pet peeve of mine…somehow defining a ‘type’ of driver because of the brand of car they drove!

And when doing so use brands that are in the top 5 of the most sold brand of car in the U.K. and thus somehow categorising millions of people as likely to do the same thing even when the only thing that connects them is the brand of car. Weird.

[Wilson]

This is defo a pet peeve of mine…somehow defining a ‘type’ of driver because of the brand of car they drove!

And when doing so use brands that are in the top 5 of the most sold brand of car in the U.K. and thus somehow categorising millions of people as likely to do the same thing even when the only thing that connects them is the brand of car. Weird.

There will be more that connects them. Their choice of car and that persistent cramp in their wrists for one.

[Pretty Boy]

This is defo a pet peeve of mine…somehow defining a ‘type’ of driver because of the brand of car they drove!

And when doing so use brands that are in the top 5 of the most sold brand of car in the U.K. and thus somehow categorising millions of people as likely to do the same thing even when the only thing that connects them is the brand of car. Weird.

I would argue that while it is obviously ridiculous to say all Audi/BMW etc. drivers are a certain type, it is fair to say that within those who choose such cars there is definitely a type who are attracted to the brands.

A bit like not everyone who owns a Staffie (great wee dogs btw) is a total bonehead but a certain type is more inclined to make them their breed of choice.

[lapsedhibee]

And when doing so use brands that are in the top 5 of the most sold brand of car in the U.K. and thus somehow categorising millions of people as likely to do the same thing even when the only thing that connects them is the brand of car. Weird.

Can you do a quick list of UK brand sales among 'German' makes? I would like to know if it's statistically normal for the sorts of abuse described here to so frequently involve (in my perception) BMW and Audi cars, and to so infrequently involve (in my perception) VW cars.

[RyeSloan]

Can you do a quick list of UK brand sales among 'German' makes? I would like to know if it's statistically normal for the sorts of abuse described here to so frequently involve (in my perception) BMW and Audi cars, and to so infrequently involve (in my perception) VW cars.

Hee hee it’s a pet peeve…not sure it requires my excellent, but costly, analysis skills to be deployed at your behest [emoji1787]

[McD]

Drivers who think flicking an indicator on as the firm the wheel to change lanes gives them right of way to the drivers already in the other lane, especially those who then get pissy because you don’t brake hard to just let them into your lane.



And, drivers who insist on sitting in the outside lane going slower than the inside lane on a dual carriageway, and are apparently unaware of the many vehicles undertaking them, due to leaving several hundred yards of open space in front of them to the next car up the road.

[lapsedhibee]

Hee hee it’s a pet peeve…not sure it requires my excellent, but costly, analysis skills to be deployed at your behest [emoji1787]

Ok I've no analysis skills at all, never mind costly and excellent ones, but it seems on the internet that VW have sold more than Audi who've sold more than BMW in the last few years in the UK. In my perception that split is definitely not reflected in what you see going on in child spaces (etc). IF there are actually more VWs on the road than Audi or BMW then isn't it at least a bit likely that there's something going on with the drivers of the different brands with regard to rules of the road?

https://heycar.com/uk/news/car-sales-statistics

[silverhibee]

The idiots racing on St John’s Road the last couple of nights in there high performance cars, came back from airport about 12 last night and it was ridiculous, a bit cardboard over the speed camera, and the noise, deary me.