Driver plumbs new depths in idiotic driving

flyingdutch said:

This am's commute. going along High St Kew.
Traffic slowing and dutchy gaining up hill.
Pass a guy, look at him and double take as i realise he's reading a
friggin paperback book!
and moving (approx 20kph).
We see-sawed a couple of times over the next 500m and he was still
friggin reading it.
Too puffed to 'talk' to him.

unbelieveable

This post had me both shocked and amazed. Then I realised you weren't
talking about another cyclist. Now that I want to see.

DaveB

flyingdutch said:

This am's commute. going along High St Kew.
Traffic slowing and dutchy gaining up hill.
Pass a guy, look at him and double take as i realise he's reading a friggin paperback book!
and moving (approx 20kph).
We see-sawed a couple of times over the next 500m and he was still friggin reading it.
Too puffed to 'talk' to him.

unbelieveable

Thats nuthin Dutchy! A few weeks back I saw a guy in peak hr traffic eating noodles with a fork out of a container ie both hands used for eating. He wasn't looking at the road, he was watching his noodles so he didnt drop them on his shirt front.

I often see people reading the paper etc folded up on their steering wheel.

flyingdutch said:

This am's commute. going along High St Kew.
Traffic slowing and dutchy gaining up hill.
Pass a guy, look at him and double take as i realise he's reading a
friggin paperback book!
and moving (approx 20kph).
We see-sawed a couple of times over the next 500m and he was still
friggin reading it.
Too puffed to 'talk' to him.

You don't look in may car windows do you? 🙂

Happens a lot in peak hour traffic, IME.

Bleve said:

flyingdutch said:

This am's commute. going along High St Kew.
Traffic slowing and dutchy gaining up hill.
Pass a guy, look at him and double take as i realise he's reading a
friggin paperback book!
and moving (approx 20kph).
We see-sawed a couple of times over the next 500m and he was still
friggin reading it.
Too puffed to 'talk' to him.

You don't look in may car windows do you? 🙂

Happens a lot in peak hour traffic, IME.

I have been known to pull out things to read while driving... but only
when we've stopped so completely that I've made the call to switch off
the engine.

I regularly see women applying make-up while "driving". I'm always
tempted to try to scare them so they smudge it. Haven't spotted a man
applying make-up while driving yet.

Tam

quote='Tamyka Bell'Bleve said:

flyingdutch said:

This am's commute. going along High St Kew.
Traffic slowing and dutchy gaining up hill.
Pass a guy, look at him and double take as i realise he's reading a
friggin paperback book!
and moving (approx 20kph).
We see-sawed a couple of times over the next 500m and he was still
friggin reading it.
Too puffed to 'talk' to him.

You don't look in may car windows do you? 🙂

Happens a lot in peak hour traffic, IME.

I have been known to pull out things to read while driving... but only
when we've stopped so completely that I've made the call to switch off
the engine.

I regularly see women applying make-up while "driving". I'm always
tempted to try to scare them so they smudge it. Haven't spotted a man
applying make-up while driving yet.
[/QUOTE]

I've seen men using electric shavers while driving.

Bleve said:

You don't look in may car windows do you? 🙂

Happens a lot in peak hour traffic, IME.

i looked at him cos from behind he looked like he was asleep. Book was in his groin and he wasnt aware of anything ahead of him.

Se ethe paper on the steering wheel occasionally, but only in the stop-sometimes-start stuff. This guy hadnt come to a stop in the last km.

EuanB said:

I've seen men using electric shavers while driving.

Time to ride away very fast if you see a woman using an electric shaver whilst driving :eek:

flyingdutch said:

i looked at him cos from behind he looked like he was asleep. Book was in his groin and he wasnt aware of anything ahead of him.

Se ethe paper on the steering wheel occasionally, but only in the stop-sometimes-start stuff. This guy hadnt come to a stop in the last km.

I recently saw a woman reading a mag while rolling the car along Springvale Rd near Maroondah H'way. I have also noticed lots of car debris (glass, bumper bits and end panel material) on the roads over the last week or two. Not sure if there has been an increase in collisions or I am just noticing it, or minimal rain to wash it away (weekend made up for that 😄 ).

Tamyka Bell said:

I regularly see women applying make-up while "driving". I'm always
tempted to try to scare them so they smudge it. Haven't spotted a man
applying make-up while driving yet.

Tam

I've witnessed a few of both genders "picking a winner" so to speak. Eccchhhhhh! :eek:

warrwych said:

flyingdutch said:

i looked at him cos from behind he looked like he was asleep. Book was
in his groin and he wasnt aware of anything ahead of him.

Se ethe paper on the steering wheel occasionally, but only in the
stop-sometimes-start stuff. This guy hadnt come to a stop in the last
km.

I recently saw a woman reading a mag while rolling the car along
Springvale Rd near Maroondah H'way. I have also noticed lots of car
debris (glass, bumper bits and end panel material) on the roads over
the last week or two. Not sure if there has been an increase in
collisions or I am just noticing it, or minimal rain to wash it away
(weekend made up for that 😄 ).

I have heard of a list of wierd things people have done while driving.
On one occasion a woman was spotted putting a towel over her
shoulders... not too strange... then tipping a bottle of water over her
head... hmmm, a bit strange... then washing her hair with some shampoo!!
WTF!! In the middle of peak hour traffic!

--
Bean

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Bean Long said:

I have heard of a list of wierd things people have done while driving.

A couple fo weeks ago I saw a woman who was obviously concerned about the
bright, early evening sun shining in through her driver's side window.
Rather than just using the drop down shadey thing (total blank, can't
remember what they're called) she added a scarf or something over the top
of it, totally blocking her view of anything coming from her right! :0

Graeme

Graeme Dods said:

Bean Long said:

I have heard of a list of wierd things people have done while driving.

A couple fo weeks ago I saw a woman who was obviously concerned about the
bright, early evening sun shining in through her driver's side window.
Rather than just using the drop down shadey thing (total blank, can't
remember what they're called) she added a scarf or something over the top
of it, totally blocking her view of anything coming from her right! :0

I think it's called a visor.

Tam

Tamyka Bell said:

I think it's called a visor.

That's the one! I got it about 5 seconds after hitting send. I'll use the
excuse that it's ****ing hot here today and my brain has given up in
disgust 🙂

Graeme

flyingdutch said:

This am's commute. going along High St Kew.
Traffic slowing and dutchy gaining up hill.
Pass a guy, look at him and double take as i realise he's reading a friggin paperback book!
and moving (approx 20kph).
We see-sawed a couple of times over the next 500m and he was still friggin reading it.
Too puffed to 'talk' to him.

unbelieveable

I saw you coming down hill into the junction, you didn't look that puffed!

warrwych said:

flyingdutch said:

i looked at him cos from behind he looked like he was asleep. Book was
in his groin and he wasnt aware of anything ahead of him.

Se ethe paper on the steering wheel occasionally, but only in the
stop-sometimes-start stuff. This guy hadnt come to a stop in the last
km.

I recently saw a woman reading a mag while rolling the car along
Springvale Rd near Maroondah H'way. I have also noticed lots of car
debris (glass, bumper bits and end panel material) on the roads over
the last week or two. Not sure if there has been an increase in
collisions or I am just noticing it, or minimal rain to wash it away
(weekend made up for that 😄 ).

School holidays are over.

Bleve said:

School holidays are over.

not for long!
they are makig term one stoopidly short to alleviate traffic and PT for the CommGames.

Besides, School IS a Holiday!

When I woz lad, we didnt have ollidaes.
We werk'd thru narght. Ooopsard dowen and oonder warter!

Thart woz wen we wuznt down pit...

Kids theeess daes are SUFT!

On 2006-02-27, Graeme Dods (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

Tamyka Bell said:

I think it's called a visor.

That's the one! I got it about 5 seconds after hitting send. I'll use the
excuse that it's ****ing hot here today and my brain has given up in
disgust 🙂

Move to Melbourne. Lovely jubbly!

And in the two posts I have made since getting back from training, I
have forgotten to mention that you people post too much. Stay away
from a.b for 6 hours, and come back to 80 posts. The other day, I
found out that if you stay away from it for about 12 hours, you come
back to 180 posts. Crazy!

--
TimC
Conclusion to my thesis -- "It is trivial to show that it is
clearly obvious that this is not woofly."

TimC said:

Move to Melbourne. Lovely jubbly!

Almost happened, but somebody else got the job 🙁
Still, their loss 😉

Graeme

flyingdutch said:

When I woz lad, we didnt have ollidaes.
We werk'd thru narght. Ooopsard dowen and oonder warter!

Thart woz wen we wuznt down pit...

Kids theeess daes are SUFT!

Aye, but they at least learn to properly spell phonetic Yorkshire accents.
"thru narght?" Tsk, it's "thru t'nayt" 😉

Graeme