The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

If anyone wants to know the record for driving without ever looking in your rear view mirror in a built-up area, this must be it! :rotfl:

Some people just seem to "switch off" once they are in a car, it's like they have been transported to their own little world.

The worst I saw was on the M74 once, luckily outside rush hour so the motorway was very quiet. There was a pl*nker cruising along at 50mph in Lane 2, whilst Lane 1 was completely empty apart from people who'd already overtaken him and pulled back in. several had passed in such a way to drop a very strong hint - i.e cutting back across very abruptly but the pl*nker was plainly oblivious to anything going on around them.

I passed them and after about 15 miles came to a services so pulled in for a break and a snack. After I continued my journey, I caught up with pl*nker again some ten miles later - and they were STILL in Lane 2 !!!!!

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

Some people just seem to "switch off" once they are in a car, it's like they have been transported to their own little world.

The worst I saw was on the M74 once, luckily outside rush hour so the motorway was very quiet. There was a pl*nker cruising along at 50mph in Lane 2, whilst Lane 1 was completely empty apart from people who'd already overtaken him and pulled back in. several had passed in such a way to drop a very strong hint - i.e cutting back across very abruptly but the pl*nker was plainly oblivious to anything going on around them.

I passed them and after about 15 miles came to a services so pulled in for a break and a snack. After I continued my journey, I caught up with pl*nker again some ten miles later - and they were STILL in Lane 2 !!!!!

:rotfl: :rotfl:
In the years when I was doing a lot of motorway driving, I used to call that my Skaters' Waltz Overtaking Method. (Swom).

It only really works on a sparsely-populated motorway.

You know the drill; you're in lane 1, up ahead is a car in lane 2, as you say, with no-one in lane 1. No-one in lane 3 either.

So, start singing the Skaters' Waltz........ Laaaaa laaa lalaaaaaaaaa, Laaaa laaa lalaaaaaaaaaaa, etc.......

Then skate into lane 2, still behind them, then skate into lane 3, overtake, then at a suitable distance skate back into lane 2, and then skate back into lane 1, having overtaken the lane hogger and sung a nice tune at the same time.

I never knew I could skate until I had to overtake a lane 2 hogger!
:rotfl: :rotfl:



If you're lucky, you can get to do again later!

michaels

silvercar wrote: »

I agree. Mine both did cubs, but lost interest after about a year. DS2 went to Judo for a short while. He also learnt the violin in yr 7 as it was compulsory to learn an instrument in his school. He did art club after school. They both played football at the weekend. DS1 had some religious lessons when he was 12/13. Think that was it. They both take a keen interest in politics/ current affairs, that was partly because they were home during the evenings rather than rushing around.

Don't think our house is the hotbed of learning and culture that yours was so unless they go out more their specialist knowledge in Mastermind will be British soaps 2015 - 2025.

Pyxis

michaels wrote: »

Don't think our house is the hotbed of learning and culture that yours was so unless they go out more their specialist knowledge in Mastermind will be British soaps 2015 - 2025.

Don't knock it!

A question about Eastenders might well have been the answer to a life-changing sum question on "Who wants to be a Millionaire"!

chris_m

PasturesNew wrote: »

I see though, it was discontinued in 2009 - and it's got a "deep boot", so the bottom of the rear door isn't flush with the boot space, which I like as you can sit in the back as if it were a seat, or load stuff easily if you've not got to lift things over a high boot lip.

If you're, say, trying to lift a sack of spuds from the rear, it's easier without a lip as you just slide it to the edge, get a grip and stagger it towards the house... having to reach down into a boot and lift/clear the lip doesn't give you the same chances of loading/unloading and getting a grip. Without a lip, too, makes it a car you can sit in the back and picnic in if you ever wished to do so... with legs dangling out the back.

The only drawback with no boot lip is that if you have to park facing uphill you can end up wearing all the contents when you open the boot

My Duster has a completely flat boot floor with no lip, so I get around that problem, plus the one of everything rolling/sliding around when I'm driving, with half a dozen plastic crates which fit perfectly in the boot. Most stuff can go in the crates (a further advantage being it makes it easy to carry loose stuff indoors) but, if I want to get something in which won't fit in a crate, the crates are stackable.
If I'm going to get something specific (for example, some bags of compost) then I leave the crates at home for that trip.

chris_m

Well, that's another 2 day's good work done.
I've now got 1½ more of my semi-raised veggie beds completed. I say 1½ because they are meant to be 4m long but my brussels sprouts are still occupying half the area of one bed, so I've split that bed into two halves, done one half and left the one with the sprouts in to do later. The boards are all fitted around the sprouts, it'll just(*) need digging out, lining and refilling when the sprouts are finished.

(*) Just? While I was digging out the 2m half bed it occurred to me that I'm glad I didn't decide on a career change, instead of just retiring, to become a grave digger. Doing these beds has been hard enough and I was only going half as deep as they do

Pyxis

Why is it called a Duster?

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

Why is it called a Duster?

Dunno - it's what Dacia, in some markets including the UK, and Renault, in the rest of the world, chose to call it.

They obviously haven't got a sense of humour though - it's not available (in the UK at least) in yellow :rotfl:

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

It would have to also be affordable ....

Looked at those, odd thing - I bet that'd take somebody's head off once it gets a bit old and in the "wrong sort of wind".

Google imaging ... shows a 1007 that looks interesting.

It'll probably turn out to be bigger than it looks, rare, expensive, not available in this country.

Another quick google shows that it might just be "rare"
http://www.parkers.co.uk/peugeot/1007/

I see though, it was discontinued in 2009 - and it's got a "deep boot", so the bottom of the rear door isn't flush with the boot space, which I like as you can sit in the back as if it were a seat, or load stuff easily if you've not got to lift things over a high boot lip.

If you're, say, trying to lift a sack of spuds from the rear, it's easier without a lip as you just slide it to the edge, get a grip and stagger it towards the house... having to reach down into a boot and lift/clear the lip doesn't give you the same chances of loading/unloading and getting a grip. Without a lip, too, makes it a car you can sit in the back and picnic in if you ever wished to do so... with legs dangling out the back.

You are correct, it was the 1007 I was thinking of. Didn't realise they stopped making them 10 years ago.

SingleSue

michaels wrote: »

Don't think our house is the hotbed of learning and culture that yours was so unless they go out more their specialist knowledge in Mastermind will be British soaps 2015 - 2025.

Neither was ours until we had the time to actually sit down, talk and debate. We were all too busy running around like headless chickens to actually know before though....