Stereotypes ...

[sunny-dave]

... are oh so often true :)

I spent most of Saturday and Sunday afternoons in a hi-viz jacket - directing traffic & sorting out parking, for friends who were opening their garden for the NGS. Not a trivial job, over 500 visitors across the two days, and a busyish road outside the house to keep moving.

In the whole time that I was invested with the (entirely spurious) authority that a hi-viz gives, virtually everyone was friendly, happy and co-operative ...

... but (you just saw that 'but' coming, didn't you) there were exactly two exceptions.

1. The Old Git who parallel parked on the pavement, neatly in the middle of a space that would take two cars :

"Please don't park on the pavement - it means that people will have to walk into the road to get past you"

"Sorry, I'm not risking my wing mirrors by parking on the road" (in a line of 30 or so cars, all neatly parked on the road)

"Please move forward so that someone can use the space behind you"

"I always take a big space so that non-one will bump me"


*** He was driving ..... a Volvo Estate :) ***


2. The person who waited until I was 50 yards away sorting something else & then moved a couple of cones so that they could park right outside the House entrance.

"Please don't park there it was coned off for a reason - the space is specifically kept clear to enable safe access to a couple of disabled parking spaces by the house. There is plenty of parking across the road in the field"

"I'm not taking my car into a field - and I don't see why I should walk that far anyway when there is room here" (there wasn't)

*** The car was a .... BMW soft top. The driver a (physically fit, albeit 'with work done') woman of about 40ish - bottle blonde hair, sunglasses - the whole bit ***


Karma was organised (I'm good like that) - the Volvo was effectively blocked in by two later arrivals - he could easily have got out of the space if he was on the road, but from the path it was a 98 iterations back/forward shuffle - with me watching that he didn't touch his precious bumpers on anything.

The BMW was totally blocked by the wheelchair adapted van I allowed to park in front of her ... it's amazing how long I took to find the keyholder :)


They are probably both wondering who folded their mirrors in too - actually they probably aren't because I can't see that either of them would ever use them.


Happy Days.


PS : We raised over £2,000 in the two days - and had a lot of fun too :)

[tonyav]

PS : We raised over £2,000 in the two days - and had a lot of fun too :)

Hey, well done dave, I bet that bloody beemer had no indicators either !.

[humbersloop]

well done with the dosh dave and good call on the special parking arrangements - a blue badge using colleague will cheerfully block people for ages

...and hefting a clog with narrowed eyes the stereotype of diminutive drivers of elderly Discos might be??...

[carrust]

I find Saab drivers absolute ar$eholes as well:-)

[tonyav]

oh gawd.

[tonyav]

LOL, guess what make of car dave has, carrust.

[sunny-dave]

sings (badly)

"I left my heart, in sloopy's Disco
Above the grey and windy sea"

[sunny-dave]

adds carrust's name to list

:+)

[tonyav]

he's already on mine, dave.

[carrust]

Yellowy greeny car owners need a slap as well:-)

[tonyav]

see what I mean, dave.

[humbersloop]

s'true though, when did they stop putting indicators on beemers?


..was the correct response moped boy, stand easy..;)

[murraymints]

All of which is precisely why I declined an entry in the yellow book..gardeners will know what I mean !

[sunny-dave]

On charmer yesterday even asked the Owner if she could borrow a knife to take a cutting, as she had forgotten her own penknife !!

[tonyav]

LOL, cheeky git.

[DaisyNonna]

Excellent Dave. Too bad I don't drive, would have enjoyed running interference for you.

[tonyav]

Hey Daisy, don't interfere with dave, he's a big lad you know !.

[DaisyNonna]

I should be so lucky!

[ChuckFickens]

Although I had an indicator bulb blow a little while ago.... I'll be buggered if I'm going to wear another one out!

[humbersloop]

and they're off! pure filth masquerading as horticulture

you can take a horticulture, but you can't make her...

..stop now sloopy, before you're in trouble

[tonyav]

LOL, it always happens for some reason, hippy chick.