a suggestion for those drivers not wanting to lift share

[Fibilou]

a) Put on very loud, very noisy music in car and sing along to it, badly
b) Make car into a total tip
c) Drive too fast and do a few "sudden" manoeuvres
d) See if you can get the car to smell a bit funky

Nobody will ever want to get a lift with you again

You could also chain smoke with the windows up.

Confide in people likely to scrounge a lift that you are feeling suicidal and have many a time whilst driving contemplated just crashing the car or driving off a cliff....

Don't agree to lift share

Fibilou my car is like that anyway :) but people still ask - not that many ask twice though thinking about it

really pisses me off, get a car if you want a lift to and from work
a mastercard ad

petrol £40+ per week
tax £210 a year
mot approx £50 ( DP takes car)
insurance £110 per month
wear and tear ( don't get me started)

being able to drive home and listen to cheese...priceless

be late and unreliable in the smiliest way possible

a taxi from my home to work is £9, yet people want this for free....no chance

these are only for people that take the p, right?

I dont' want to lift share. The time I drive to work is the only 4 hours a week i get on my own... I do not want to share it with Michael from the statistics office.

so ner.

AuntiePickleBottom - £110 a month for insurance? What do you drive?? My car's less than £30 a month insurance.

But yes... people who don't drive - be nice and you'll get lifts. Be presumptious and you'll be left at the bus stop.

At the bus stop Icouldhavewrittenthis? That's generous, why not some dodgy out of the way country lane?

shamefully for a petrol head a poxy standard ford mondeo...how i hate dp for writing off my fully kitted baby (also he took all my no claims the wanker) sorrrryyy a sore subject.

i am 24 so i guess it don't help that i drive a 1.8, but i have never drove anything lower, my baby was 2.0 litre car, when dp wrote that off it was a 2.3 so my current car is a major downgrade i hate it.

bet it was pink

What horrors - endangering the public, yourselves and screwing the environment by insisting in one passenger, one car. Yuk.

I pay e40 a month insurance. And just drive past if you don't feel like it.

I picked up a woman at the bus stop the other day. Pissing rain, neighbour, although I don't know her. She got in and promptly opened a bag of cheese and onion crisps and stared at me for the whole journey, while nosily eating crisps.

Got to town without her killing me, and she announces "I wasn't going into town you KNOW??". I said "really? crikey, that's a shame!" and squealed off starsky and hutch stylee.

She's probably still there picking crisps out of her teeth seething.

Sticks "I'm a Horror!" badge on lapel

Huh?

Are you breaking things there ItsAllabitDeathlyQuiet?

No idea what AphraBen is talking about

I think I broke the internet Kaloki. Prob just as well, look at the fookin time!

Just say no!

Do what a friend of ours inadvertently did to hubby (resulting in me banning him getting any more lifts until friend got his car fixed). Drive with a knackered exhaust, nearly gas the pair of yourself, meaning you nearly crash the flipping car.

He's apparently now got his car fixed thankfully - but I banned all lift sharing from this bloke for a good few months after that.

Hubby's probably going to have to lift scrounge around work for a couple of weeks (and chip in for petrol of course) because he's moving work site for a new job and it's going to be a month before we can pick up a second car.

emptyshell a couple of weeks is fine - clear limits - its when it is forever...

[pombear] ????

"really pisses me off, get a car if you want a lift to and from work"

Yeah because it is really that easy for some of us Auntiepicklebottom Many people have medical conditions such as epilepsy which prevents them from driving. Many many people simply cannot afford to run a car and some people are scared of driving. It is not always a simply matter of just "getting a car"

I personally would never dream of asking anyone for a lift. In fact walking is my method of exercising and 99% of the time I prefer to walk and do walk absolutely everywhere. I fully appreciate that many people do not want to give people lifts on a regular basis - particularly if it is going out of your way and costing you money. But on another thread some people were moaning about giving one off lifts to people. Are some drivers that unsociable that they can't bear to share their space even once? Please enlighten me because I am baffled

notalone okay there are medical conditions but people cope - I have friends who can not see well enough to drive and also one with epilepsy - however most people with controlled epilesy can drive after 2 years. Some people with medical conditions are very independant - in mind not nec body - and so pay thei rway (with kindness sometimes - not nec money - just being appriciative) others do not. Having a medical condition does not mean that you suddeny become entitled to sit in someone elses car - it is this sense of entitlement that we are mainly complaining about. As for being scared - we all have to do things that we are scared of - and with the money again it is a case of priorities - I have been in a position (for years) when I had to choose between the car and heating - I shoose the car - and hated it when people scabbed lifts without offering petrol money.