Seeing red .... a moment of good citizenship?

[grahame]

People whilst on driving on the phone get a telling off too.

I have gotten out of my car at lights to tell people. :twisted:

Again I have to agree with you.

Last summer a bint in a BMW convertible nearly killed whilst I was cycling. She was talking on her mobile and pulled out of a sideroad without looking.

Fortunately, she had to stop at the traffic lights a few hundred yards later. So I reached in, grabbed her 'phone and told the person at the other end that "She can't talk, she's trying to drive." and hungup the call.

I then got an earfull of abuse from her about how she was talking to her boss and wanted her phone back. My response was to tell her that I wanted to stay alive and not be killed by people driving without due care and attention, and would she like me to call her boss back and explain why I'd terminated the call?

 

[cyfa2809]

wow grahame! nice work
you got balls to do that

 

[grahame]

wow grahame! nice work
you got balls to do that

Not really. It was an instant reaction, fuelled by adrenaline and stupidity. and could have got me killed if she'd chosen to chase me after the lights changed. I did resort to diving down the next available side road to get out of her way.

What I should have done is taken her car keys to immobilise her car on the grounds that she was endangering other road users.

 

[cyfa2809]

still crazy!
i bet she just looked at you dumb founded
as they do

 

[IDB1]

People whilst on driving on the phone get a telling off too.

I have gotten out of my car at lights to tell people. :twisted:

My Brother is a nightmare for this..
We were in the car with him and the bloke in front was on the phone.. so he sits on his bumper, flashing his light and tooting him up.. fella pulls over to carry on the call so Brother pulls in behind him and continues to harass him.
My kids thought it hilarious..

It sort of all started when a woman on the phone nearly wiped him out on the road (he would have been on his m/bike).. she had to stop in traffic so he pulled alongside her to tell her the error of her ways.. she responded with abuse so he grabbed her phone and threw it.

She reported him to the police (for shouting at her, it's assault )... no action taken though..... surprisingly.

 

[cyfa2809]

im shocked people actually do this!
i thought the british were polite

 

[Neil]

Last summer a bint in a BMW convertible nearly killed whilst I was cycling. She was talking on her mobile and pulled out of a sideroad without looking.

Fortunately, she had to stop at the traffic lights a few hundred yards later. So I reached in, grabbed her 'phone and told the person at the other end that "She can't talk, she's trying to drive." and hungup the call.

I then got an earfull of abuse from her about how she was talking to her boss and wanted her phone back. My response was to tell her that I wanted to stay alive and not be killed by people driving without due care and attention, and would she like me to call her boss back and explain why I'd terminated the call?

Rapturous applause!

 

[Tazio]

I don't like people using phones in the car.

Though oddly no stories so far of people chasing builders vans and grabbing phones off them. Women seem to enrage people more for some reason. :roll:

 

[Neil]

I am normally a fairly tollerant chap but some things do flip me to the point the red mist descends ........ :twisted:

Last night I had met Mrs LMTTM after work in town and we were walking back home together.

I noticed, as we walked back, a lad sitting on his bmx unwrapping something from HMV. As we walked passed he dropped the packaging on the floor. I kept my eye on him as we walked passed and he was about to ride off.

Folk dropping litter is unforgivable to me. In this instance there was a bin less than 25m away and he was on a bike FFS :twisted:

So I decided to say something.

Anyone who has met me knows that I am no thug, giant softy is more accurate. But at 6' 3'' about 16 stone and in this instance wearing a cap and hooded jacket I may have looked a little menacing.

I asked the lad if he would pick up the rubbish and he said firmly "NO".

I saw red.

A few moments of conversation about why he had dropped it left me speechless ....

"whats the problem" ..... "its only litter" ..... "why do you care"

I tried again to appeal to him but to no avail.

So I put down the stuff I was carrying, walked over to him, picked up the litter and handed it to him.

"what do you want me to do with it?"

I had thought this had been clear all along.

"put it in the **** bin!"

At this point it was obviously clear from my face I was not best pleased.

Anyhoo he solemnly walked the 25m to the bin and popped it in.

Result.

Told him he was a "good boy" and sent him on his way.

Felt good about it but felt equally angered by some peoples disrespect.

Hmm.

Rant over.

Calm

Well done.

I long for a time when this was more the norm.

I can remember growing up, when getting a b0ll0cking of an adult or older person was reason to pause, be a bit scared, and instantly reconsider what I was doing.

These days, it seems most kids / young-uns would either ignore, verbally, or physically abuse somebody who did that.

And just as worrying, a clear change in times: there was a time when parents who got complaints from other adults, would immediately (and largely, correctly) give their kids a sound telling off, on the assumption that if whatever they had done had caused a grown-up to complain, it must deserve a telling-off. That doesn't seem anything like as prevalent, these days. You're more likely to get very little response - if anything, entirely grudging - and just as likely to get a load of abuse for complaining.

 

[IDB1]

I don't like people using phones in the car.

Though oddly no stories so far of people chasing builders vans and grabbing phones off them. Women seem to enrage people more for some reason. :roll:

The bloke my Bro harassed off the road was a big ol' lump... in a convertible Merc..

P'raps it's the dizzy bints that are more prominent.. and dangerous..