Holidays - A warning

[LoftyLottie]

It's the start of the school holidays and I live in a holiday area. All I have heard on the roads today are police cars and ambulances. The grockles are coming down in their droves.

Just a reminder - just because it's the holidays and you and the kids are happy and perhaps going away, please please don't drive in silly holiday mode.

It's the same here every year.

Take care! PLEASE

[piggynose]

what the feck are grockles?

[redcrx]

the roads around there are terrible at the best of times, but i know what you mean, people do pull some silly stunts in holiday times.

[mrs_overall]

It's the same where I live Lottie, only we don't call them grockles, we call them Comforts

(Ah've come for t'day)

[LoftyLottie]

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/page/192

[LoftyLottie]

Just in a rush to get away, they leave their driving sense back at home. Our roads are country roads, we don't have a single motorway. Country roads have the worse record for serious accidents and road deaths.

(And please don't throw your rubbish out of your car windows into my driveway!!)

I love grockles really!!

[recordman]

So I assume the collective noun for holiday trippers is a drove. What part of the country are you alluding to as I live down in Poole in Dorset and we have hordes of Grockles .

[evedawn]

ohhhh -----so thats what a grockle is....

[LoftyLottie]

I'm in Norfolk but am southern by birth. I have always known tourists as Grockles!

[hc4361]

All the cafe owners and chip shops are rubbing their hands in glee at this annual opportunity to rip off the tourists.

[Count-A-Strong]

You must have known it was a tourist area when you moved there lottie.

[LoftyLottie]

Yep, true. It's mainly this weekend and bank holidays that the sirens are constant though. We are actually removed from the masses, but the roads down come very near.

[Theranged]

(And please don't throw your rubbish out of your car windows into my driveway!!)

Maybe your drive looks like a tip? (joke)

[Prudie]

Me too LL, tourists are Grockles or 'the Augs'

[LoftyLottie]

You can always tell grockles because they have special holiday clothes - brand new and they wear them whatever the whether. Shorts and cagoules (sp). And they clog up the supermarkets! But they are a main source of employment.

[LoftyLottie]

They use my entrance as a layby and empty their ashtrays. We have had dirty nappies left for us too and a coach driver once knocked at the door to ask if his passengers could use our toilet facilites!! I said some rude words.

[netibiza]

We call them "girries" over here, and please parents do not overdrink, already this year we've had deaths, and abuse of kids just through drink, take it easy here in Spain too. Funny enough they usually drive OK here.

[netibiza]

... oh and please cover up when walking through our lovely towns and villages and in shops!!

[boxtops]

We are expecting the ferry queues to grow this weekend, and the caravans to emerge from the gloom...

[LoftyLottie]

Why do people take on new I.D.'s on holiday Neti. I can never understand the need for a new load of holiday type clothes. And it's horrible when tourists come into the towns and shops in shorts and swimwear.

[boxtops]

we'd be glad to see any tourists in our shops, most of them just whizz straight through on their way to somewhere else.