Go Figure...

Pufftmw
Pufftmw Posts: 1,941
edited October 2012 in Commuting chat
There's me, carefully and respectfully driving round Old Street Roundabout, in the correct lane to come from Old Street (by the Classic Car place and into Old Street heading west. Lights are green. Then some idiot of a girl cyclist just runs the red lights out of City Road in front of me, also heading into Old Street. I hit my horn as a warning and she turns her head and shouts out "W@nker!" at me :o :oops:

Now, she may have been referring to me personally but she doesn't know my personal habits or maybe the car I was driving per chance but I'm not the one that was in danger of getting flattened by a 2.5 tonne Range Rover!

As I said, go figure...
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  • cyclingprop
    cyclingprop Posts: 2,426
    For driving a range rover in central London? Fair call ;)
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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    No, I refuse point blank to 'go figure' not being an American and all that..... :wink:
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Ah that Central London off-road driving.

    Go figure...
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  • graham.
    graham. Posts: 862
    Rolf F wrote:
    No, I refuse point blank to 'go figure' not being an American and all that..... :wink:
    Yeah...you do the math! :evil:
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  • JamesB5446
    JamesB5446 Posts: 471
    I could care less.
  • Pufftmw
    Pufftmw Posts: 1,941
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Ah that Central London off-road driving.

    Go figure...

    Unfortunately I'm not in the position to have a "Country" car and a "Town" car

    The more natural terrain is below...

    RR1.jpg
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,300
    I once rounded a corner to see a man and his son of about 12 stepping off the curb into 3 lanes of oncoming traffic. I hooted the horn and braked. They just stood in the middle of the road shouting at me to fork off whilst ordering a milkshake in sign language. Charming. Made me wonder why I hit the brakes.
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,052
    I'm shocked :shock:

    You people have cars?!
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  • Paul E
    Paul E Posts: 2,052
    Mines barely a car, it's almost a shoe box and I don't drive it into town
  • JamesB5446
    JamesB5446 Posts: 471
    Pufftmw wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Ah that Central London off-road driving.

    Go figure...

    Unfortunately I'm not in the position to have a "Country" car and a "Town" car

    The more natural terrain is below...

    RR1.jpg
    That's not a Range Rover. That's a Range Rover Sport. I'm considering reporting you to the forum mods for trying to trick us into thinking you have a posher car that you do.
  • Headhuunter
    Headhuunter Posts: 6,494
    itboffin wrote:
    I'm shocked :shock:

    You people have cars?!
    I'm 40 in December and I've lived my life thus far without ever owning a car. I haven't actually driven a car since 1996
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  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    Pufftmw wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Ah that Central London off-road driving.

    Go figure...

    Unfortunately I'm not in the position to have a "Country" car and a "Town" car

    The more natural terrain is below...

    RR1.jpg
    Way to annoy the Greenies!
    Great big polluting engine and crushing the plants to death. :twisted:
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    JamesB5446 wrote:
    That's not a Range Rover. That's a Range Rover Sport. I'm considering reporting you to the forum mods for trying to trick us into thinking you have a posher car that you do.

    If you are going to report him for anything, report him for trying to make out that the natural terrain of a Range Rover Sport is anywhere other than firmly on the tarmac in Chelsea. That's actually a pretty rare picture. It's probably the only Range Rover Sport ever to leave tarmac but note how clean it is - likely it was airlifted into position :lol:
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  • Pufftmw
    Pufftmw Posts: 1,941
    daviesee wrote:
    Way to annoy the Greenies!
    Great big polluting engine and crushing the plants to death. :twisted:

    Ah but they're my plants so tough. Besides, you should have seen what came along next...

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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 27,638
    You're not going to drive that down Old Street are you?
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Pufftmw wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Ah that Central London off-road driving.

    Go figure...

    Unfortunately I'm not in the position to have a "Country" car and a "Town" car

    The more natural terrain is below...

    RR1.jpg
    Christmas tree shopping?
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  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Pufftmw wrote:
    Unfortunately I'm not in the position to have a "Country" car and a "Town" car
    I'm sure everyone is very sympathetic towards your straitened circumstances.
  • kelsen
    kelsen Posts: 2,003
    Once again, a thread gets derailed and we miss the original point of this post!

    So is Pufftmw a w@nker or not?
  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    kelsen wrote:
    Once again, a thread gets derailed and we miss the original point of this post!

    So is Pufftmw a w@nker or not?

    If there was any chance you were going to run her down then you are a very sensible man and using your horn most appropriately, if you were just critisising her for her choice to RLJ then she was right, you are a w@nker :D
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  • The Rookie
    The Rookie Posts: 27,812
    team47b wrote:
    if you were just critisising her for her choice to RLJ then she was right, you are a w@nker
    Cr4p, RLJing is offensive, in this case potentially danegrous and anti-social, anti-social enough to make driving a 2.7 tonne RRS seem positively green.

    Driven many an RRS offroad, very dirty, also managed 18mpg out of a supercharged ONCE.
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