Gormless Tourists

[mrs_overall]

This lunchtime I went out to run a few errands. I had a letter to post and briefly parked my car by a post box. Mine was the only car in the street and standing by it was a family of tourists (backpacks, cagoules, southern accents, pointing at things etc). I got back in my car, started the engine, indicated, and just as I started to pull out, the whole family stepped into the road in front of my car. I actually clipped the father with my nearside wing. Let me remind you again, I was the only car in the street! I jumped out and gave them a mouthful and fortunately for them the father had the good grace to apologise and then said "We are here on holiday, we wouldn't have done that at home."
Eh?

[boxtops]

Der, we're not all like that here in the South!

[sandyRoe]

They must have left their wits at home when they went away. You and the car are undamaged, Mrs O?

[Zacs-Master]

No, you go north to do it. ;-)

[mrs_overall]

Yes, thanks, me and the car are undamaged. I didn't even bother to ask if the father was OK as I was so angry at them

[237SJ]

We get a lot of those in the South West. They usually save their gormlessness for when they are driving, particularly when they are towing a caravan.

[anneasquith]

tourists in Whitby ?

[sandyRoe]

The place where Dracula's ship grounded must be a big attraction.

[EcclesCake]

Us Southerners would expect you Northerners to be able to afford motor vehicles. We'd be listening out for the sound of a pony's hooves on cobble stones......

[Baldric]

Down this way they're 'Piles'
They arrive in bunches,
They go Red,
And they're a pain in the Butt!

[mrs_overall]

lol @ Eccles

[The Builder]

Madame Eau, seeing 237SJ's post reminded me of a big roundabout near where she was brought up. Known locally as The Big Doughnut.

Great fun for the locals, watching caravans repeatedly circling the roundabout looking for the Woolcacombe outlet

[mrs_overall]

Oh and the number of times I have been merrily tootling along a one way street to find myself facing a head-on with some idiot towing a caravan. They always have the same excuse - "I am not from round here."
Is my town the only place in the country with one way streets?

[tonyav]

We have enough problems with gormless locals, glad we don't get the tourist type of gormless as well.

[EcclesCake]

I suspect I got away with an LOL from Mrs O instead of her red pen for not using the word 'not' in my first sentence,

[mrs_overall]

I did wonder Eccles.....

[Svejk]

Did the road have strange black and white stripes on it, MrsO?

[tonyav]

LOL ^^^^^^

[mrs_overall]

Sweaty, not that I noticed.
BTW what are those orange flashing lights on black & white poles for?

[Zacs-Master]

They're to indicate that there may be stupid people around.

[SlackAlice]

mrs_o

Be honest, you dropped the clutch @ 6000rpm and did a burnout away from the post box. The tourists couldn't see you for tyre smoke.