Some People make me FUME!!

Flasheart

I went out yesterday morning for my ride.
As I live in The New Forest most of my routes are roads through it.
I was about 7 miles out (Sowley) and on a narrow incline and I came across a Blue 10 plate BMW (yeah had to be didn't it).
The car was stopped in the road and the elderly woman driver & her passenger both that their windows down and were petting Donkeys. Both sides of the car had Donkeys with their heads inside the car windows and being petted.
With a muddy ditch either side of the road that was completly blocked, I had no choice but to stop. So I waited ...and waited, then I called out "I'd like to get through please!" Nothing... I called out again. About 60 seconds later the woman edged her car forward towards me..about 10 yards and said "You needn't have been so rude, you could have got off and walked behind them.

My reply was "Rude?? okay but that's better than being ignorant and STUPID!!
She asked "Stupid?"
I said "yeah stupid. These are WILD animals and you are letting them in your face and petting them, and if you think I'm getting off my bike and squeezing past the rear of a wild Donkey or Forest Pony to get kicked just so you can pet them, you're stupider than I originally thought. And anyway, you shouldn't encourage them to approach cars, that's why we have so many animal deaths here in The New Forest!"
The chin went up in a huff and the electric window went up and she took off at a rate of knots fasted than the 30mph limit I can assure you. I hope they had a nice day visiting ...NOT

DIESELDOG

Oh dear. Bad ride then. Better next time, soon be summer then you have more grockles to aim for.

Love n hugs

DD

Flasheart

No it was a good 40mile ride apart from that incident (and the pf hitting 5 miles from home).
I even went out with a sleeveless base layer underneath & bibshorts instead of biblongs, my Spring-Autumn glovesfor the first time this year. Not so great out today, but will venture out after housework is done. :roll:

Frank the tank

Women drivers eh!

kettrinboy

Some people just dont use their loaf when it comes to parking, the other day coming back to town down the well used cycle path next to a busy 4 lane carriageway,in the distance i spotted a 4x4 parked half on and half off the path with its nearside back door open so blocking the path completely, perhaps it had broken down but there was a woman standing next to the open door looking towards me and she could see me a good 100 yards away approaching at around 20 mph,i thought good she,s seen me and will close the door so i can squeeze past so i slowed down a bit,but then she turned away and started doing something in the back of the car and just left the door open forcing me to go past on the wet muddy verge,nearly dropped it actually, as i passed i shouted "thanks for blocking the f**king cycle path" to which she just waved, stupid cow

Le Commentateur

I hope they had a nice day visiting ...NOT

They might not be visitors but newly arrived ex-townies who have bought into the country lifestyle dream for their retirement.

Ben6899

Le Commentateur wrote:

I hope they had a nice day visiting ...NOT

They might not be visitors but newly arrived ex-townies who have bought into the country lifestyle dream for their retirement.

Visiting from Romsey, probably.

DIESELDOG

Flash, you live in an area full of fluffy ponies and sh!t, accept it, or BBQ it...

Love n hugs

DD

CarbonCopy

These people make me laugh really,In fact i feel much better about myself knowing full well that i am not an inconsiderate arse like them.
Last time out on my local run i had 3 incidents of people blowing there horns far to long or looking at us shaking their heads sending their triple chins into hyper wobble mode!.
It was funny because the car drivers being agressive had a few things in common they were all obese and were smoking.
Before the DVLA give people a driving licence they need to send them out on the roads on a push bike for a months training to understand how things really are out there in the concrete jungle.

One Man And His Bike

Of course, much better you get off your bike and get all the mud and crap in your shoes and cleats and move around their car than they have to spend time at a garage getting their muddy wheels cleaned if they parked slightly on the grass instead.

You shoulda gone all Danny MacAskill and rode over their car, see how they liked that.

Flasheart

DIESELDOG wrote:

Flash, you live in an area full of fluffy ponies and sh!t, accept it, or BBQ it...

Love n hugs

DD

Forestry Commission or NPA may think otherwise. And only the French eat horsemeat...or anyone else from other countries eating "beef" in Frogland

Flasheart

One Man And His Bike wrote:

Of course, much better you get off your bike and get all the mud and crap in your shoes and cleats and move around their car than they have to spend time at a garage getting their muddy wheels cleaned if they parked slightly on the grass instead.

You shoulda gone all Danny MacAskill and rode over their car, see how they liked that.

If I was on my MTB I would have bunnyhopped up her bonnet or flicked my back wheel into a nice shiney body panel HARD, the stuck up cow she was. :twisted:

Aggieboy

Flasheart wrote:

I went out yesterday morning for my ride.
As I live in The New Forest most of my routes are roads through it.
I was about 7 miles out (Sowley) and on a narrow incline and I came across a Blue 10 plate BMW (yeah had to be didn't it).
The car was stopped in the road and the elderly woman driver & her passenger both that their windows down and were petting Donkeys. Both sides of the car had Donkeys with their heads inside the car windows and being petted.With a muddy ditch either side of the road that was completly blocked, I had no choice but to stop. So I waited ...and waited, then I called out "I'd like to get through please!" Nothing... I called out again. About 60 seconds later the woman edged her car forward towards me..about 10 yards and said "You needn't have been so rude, you could have got off and walked behind them.

My reply was "Rude?? okay but that's better than being ignorant and STUPID!!
She asked "Stupid?"
I said "yeah stupid. These are WILD animals and you are letting them in your face and petting them, and if you think I'm getting off my bike and squeezing past the rear of a wild Donkey or Forest Pony to get kicked just so you can pet them, you're stupider than I originally thought. And anyway, you shouldn't encourage them to approach cars, that's why we have so many animal deaths here in The New Forest!"
The chin went up in a huff and the electric window went up and she took off at a rate of knots fasted than the 30mph limit I can assure you. I hope they had a nice day visiting ...NOT

Perhaps they were 'donkeying'

Dunkindiver

One of those moth eaten 4 legged scroungers bit my stomach outside the Alice Lisle last summer, some of the children in the vicinity learnt some new words :evil:

Ben6899

Dunkindiver wrote:

One of those moth eaten 4 legged scroungers bit my stomach outside the Alice Lisle last summer, some of the children in the vicinity learnt some new words :evil:

You shouldn't have been breathing out!

Dunkindiver

Ben6899 wrote:

Dunkindiver wrote:

One of those moth eaten 4 legged scroungers bit my stomach outside the Alice Lisle last summer, some of the children in the vicinity learnt some new words :evil:

You shouldn't have been breathing out!

A man can only hold it in for so long!

AndyRubio

chill

KillerMetre

AndyRubio wrote:

chill

+1

So an old lady fancied petting some donkeys and delayed you for a few minutes.It's this exact 'get out of my way' attitude that makes cycling so difficult at times.

Richard_D

Initally I was logging on to wind up Dunkindiver to ask him why he was going so slow past the Alice Lisle that he managed to get bitten by a donkey it is one of the few open straight bits of road around there but instead I find I am coming to the support of Flash. If you read the post he had politely asked her twice to move along rather than obstruct the highway. and feeding or petting these animals from your car is dangerous both to them and other road users. They are wild animals who usually shy away from vehicles. If you encourage them to approach vehicles you are increasing the liklihood of them being hit causing death and or injury to both the animal and the car driver.
If you think this does not happen very often explain how one of the roads up from Cadnam towards Fordingbridge already has 4 animal casualities this year and they do not count foxes, badgers, pheasants, etc. It got to 49 last year. And how when I cycle through the forest it is not unusual for me to see a dead pony beside the road that has been hit by a car. What that old lady did was stupid and dangerous telling Flash to chill shows that you had not read what he said, He had waited, he had been polite.

donkykong

relax, take it easy.

rick_chasey

Flasheart wrote:

DIESELDOG wrote:

Flash, you live in an area full of fluffy ponies and sh!t, accept it, or BBQ it...

Love n hugs

DD

Forestry Commission or NPA may think otherwise. And only the French eat horsemeat...or anyone else from other countries eating "beef" in Frogland

The Dutch eat horsemeat..

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paardenvlees

Ben6899

Richard_D wrote:

Initally I was logging on to wind up Dunkindiver to ask him why he was going so slow past the Alice Lisle that he managed to get bitten by a donkey it is one of the few open straight bits of road around there but instead I find I am coming to the support of Flash. If you read the post he had politely asked her twice to move along rather than obstruct the highway. and feeding or petting these animals from your car is dangerous both to them and other road users. They are wild animals who usually shy away from vehicles. If you encourage them to approach vehicles you are increasing the liklihood of them being hit causing death and or injury to both the animal and the car driver.
If you think this does not happen very often explain how one of the roads up from Cadnam towards Fordingbridge already has 4 animal casualities this year and they do not count foxes, badgers, pheasants, etc. It got to 49 last year. And how when I cycle through the forest it is not unusual for me to see a dead pony beside the road that has been hit by a car. What that old lady did was stupid and dangerous telling Flash to chill shows that you had not read what he said, He had waited, he had been polite.

+10

Don't pet the bloody animals!

DIESELDOG

Ben6899 wrote:

Richard_D wrote:

Initally I was logging on to wind up Dunkindiver to ask him why he was going so slow past the Alice Lisle that he managed to get bitten by a donkey it is one of the few open straight bits of road around there but instead I find I am coming to the support of Flash. If you read the post he had politely asked her twice to move along rather than obstruct the highway. and feeding or petting these animals from your car is dangerous both to them and other road users. They are wild animals who usually shy away from vehicles. If you encourage them to approach vehicles you are increasing the liklihood of them being hit causing death and or injury to both the animal and the car driver.
If you think this does not happen very often explain how one of the roads up from Cadnam towards Fordingbridge already has 4 animal casualities this year and they do not count foxes, badgers, pheasants, etc. It got to 49 last year. And how when I cycle through the forest it is not unusual for me to see a dead pony beside the road that has been hit by a car. What that old lady did was stupid and dangerous telling Flash to chill shows that you had not read what he said, He had waited, he had been polite.

+10

Don't pet the bloody animals!

Another + 10 from me. It is NOT fun picking hooves out of your windscreen after you've hit a horse. Trust me.

To those that have told Flash to chill, I suggest you re-read his post.

Love n hugs

DD

rolf_f

Turned off a road near my house on Saturday. The road is one way against the direction I was going - except for cyclists who have a 10 foot long cycle lane to feed them into the side road. Except that some knob brain had parked their car right up to the lane blocking the end of it completely (it has kerb edges on both sides).

If I find the car there when I'm on my MTB, I might try to ride over it rather than just giving it a kick......