Thanks ..

Dave Kahn

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 19:22:55 -0000, "Clive George"
<clive@xxxx-x.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:

>Provided they do it equally to cars and bikes, I've got a certain amount of
>respect for that attitude.

They seem to have reached a great age, so it must have something going
for it.

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Andy Morris

Roos Eisma wrote:
>
> And not just when they're driving. On the quite busy road near the
> university I regularly see DOLLS (male and female) walking across the
> road in front of me (in car or on bike), and their approach is to
> just step out and refuse to look towards any oncoming traffic,
> probably along the lines that if they don't see the traffic they
> don't have to acknowledge it's there...
>

I do that, or at least give the impresssion.

Quite often you know that a car could stop and let you cross the road, but
probably can't be arsed. If you look like you havn't seen them they usually
stop. Of course you keep a watcj on them out of the corner of your eye,
ready to step back or run if they don't.



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Chris Malcolm

Roos Eisma <roos@xs4all.nl> writes:

>"Peter B" <peter28@btinternet.com> writes:

>>Is there an acronym for these doddery little old ladies? How about Doddery
>>Old Little Lady?
>>Anyway, a DOLL passed me within inches on a decent open road on Sunday while
>>the German registered artic following her managed to give me a good cars
>>width of clearance. Frightening as these DOLLS often don't seem to see me.

>And not just when they're driving. On the quite busy road near the
>university I regularly see DOLLS (male and female) walking across the road
>in front of me (in car or on bike), and their approach is to just step out
>and refuse to look towards any oncoming traffic, probably along the lines
>that if they don't see the traffic they don't have to acknowledge it's
>there...

DOP (Doddery old person). I knew a bus driver who was convinced the
bus company employed lots of pensioners to step out in front of busses
to check that the drivers were paying attention. He also claimed that
some DOPs deliberately used to try to trap their coats in the bus
doors, etc., in order to get injured in a blameable and claimable way.

And do remember that some DOPs are tired of it all, and have taken the
attitude of why bother looking for traffic which might kill them? If a
car has your name written on it...

Just like unpredictable little kids, DOPs are people. It's a basic
human right to be silly, careless, not very well at the moment, deaf,
etc., as you wander about your business. It only became a problem when
we allowed mobile sitting rooms to hurtle around self-righteously at
lethal speeds in the same places that people live, work, and walk.









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