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to think this was the most outrageous breach of ferry etiquette? I am outraged!

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northernlurker · 18/08/2013 19:34

Yesterday we caught the ferry home from our Scottish Island holiday (sob). The ferrys aren't that big and there's not much space between cars. If a car door is open you can't get past. Therefore you need to move quickly but you also need to be patient. The loading is done quickly and the ferry guys shout quite a bit whilst trying to direct umpteen clueless tourists to park as effectively as possible. Therefore you don't try and get out of your car and walk across the deck till all the cars near you are parked up.
Yesterday the car in front of us was occupied by Howard and Hilda from Ever Decreasing circles. They got straight out and walked right in front of the cal mac guy directing the car in the lane next door - which caused some fruity language and a shake of the head from him. That was nothing to what she did when getting back in. Having three dcs to load we are always at the front of the queue to get back down. Dcs were in and I was climbing in to my seat when I felt my car door hit my thigh and bottom. Yes Hilda was on the way back to her car and had simply slammed my door shut so she could get passed - even though my body was not fully in the car. I was LIVID. So rude. She then stood for some minutes unzipping Howard's anorak for him Hmm and generally pratting about. AIBU to consider her a rude person? There was loads of time btw. The ferry didn't dock for several minutes and then the other side of cars got off first so it wasn't as if she was under pressure of time.

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sashh · 19/08/2013 07:16

Oh shit my parents are on holiday.

They said they were going to Dorset - but they once went to Amsterdam and ended up in Venice.

My apologies to anyone who has encountered mum parents on holiday. My mum has tunnel vision trained on her and dad, she doesn't even seem to see other people let alone give them any consideration.

northernlurker · 19/08/2013 07:36

Are your parents driving a Honda jazz bought from a Peebles dealer?

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elinorbellowed · 19/08/2013 08:11

Oh, the horror. I was trapped between cars on a Calmac ferry with six month DD in a sling and DS3yrs. Had to climb over the bonnet. Had nearly forgotten that trauma until now....

bulby · 19/08/2013 08:33

Dh and I were the annoying couple who were late for our car once- so late in fact I think they'd started loading to go back again. We went to get our car and it had gone, thinking we were on the wrong floor we went up and up tried each door- some twat has nicked the car we thought but could we find someone to ask- could we heck. Then horror of horrors there was an announcement asking the owners of registration AB12 CD34 to please return to their car as we were preventing unloading. 10 minutes ( and lots of announcements) later found it except we couldn't get to it because it was about 20metres above our head on a ramp. We'd obviously parked on a ramp that had then been raised up, they'd managed to get every other car off around us. Now we just needed to find the door to the rampy bit, except we couldn't. A lifetime and several increasingly pissed off announcements later we found the car and had probably the most humiliating 2 mins of our life as we did the drive of shame of the boat.
It was one of the England/ France crossings. The moral? If you get handed a slip of paper with a door number on it as you drive on don't leave it in the car and look at the door you leave through. You'll come back to find your car several metres ab

bulby · 19/08/2013 08:34

Whoops! Above your head.

EndoplasmicReticulum · 19/08/2013 09:01

I'm visiting at the moment and have seen a lot of people still here, and others who moved away for a bit but then came back. Yes, I did see the thread about the "dark side", that was my experience too and I wouldn't return with my children for that reason.

valiumredhead · 19/08/2013 10:52

Endo-actually I've just realised that everyone who moved off were overners, the I've that stayed was a caulk head.

I find it odd going back as an adult,I really enjoy it but then am relieved to get on the ferry home. What about you?

valiumredhead · 19/08/2013 10:53

The one that stayed

Bloody phoneBlush

Ilovegeorgeclooney · 19/08/2013 11:43

Well I am an overner who commutes to the mainland for work. I don't think the island's dark side is any worse than the dark side of any area but there is an issue with low aspirations and teenagers are divided into two clear groups those who leave at 18 and never come back and those that never leave. In the village where I live the biggest problem is second home ownership so local people cannot afford to buy, in the summer it is like the Conservative party conference!

Ponders · 19/08/2013 13:04

No, YANBU - I'm surprised Calmac man didn't Have a Word

DH was on an island ferry on Saturday too (Mull) & has discovered a loooong scratch in the paintwork on one side. It's deep enough to have gone right through to metal but he reckons the cars were too close for anything other than a human to squeeze by, so it may not have happened on the ferry?

Selks · 19/08/2013 13:34

I love a Scottish ferry journey... Properly feels as if you're going somewhere.
Don't know if it is still the same the days as its years since Ive done this crossing, but my most exciting ferry journey was the Islay to Jura ferry... A short crossing but the tidal race between the islands is so strong and fast that the little ferry has to go upstream against the current just to go straight across from island to island as the current pushes it downstream so strongly, then to dock it revs its engines and without even tying up, just powering its engines against the water, and you drive off onto Jura! Exciting and rather scary!

Selks · 19/08/2013 13:35

I think the Calmac guys do a great job actually and I've always found them pleasant to deal with.

sashh · 19/08/2013 14:42

northernlurker

No, not my parents (this time)

EndoplasmicReticulum · 19/08/2013 17:38

I'm on the Island at the moment, it's been lovely because we are in "holiday mode" and making the most of the beach. It's not the same as living here though. Ilovegeorgeclooney - that sounds very very familiar, the village where I grew up doesn't have anyone living in it year round any more.

valiumredhead · 19/08/2013 19:41

My ds asked me if I'd ever got bored of the beach when I was his age-12. God, I was at Colwell and Totland all day every day during the holidays. Bored? I didn't know the meaning of the word,I loved the beach.

Enjoy your visitSmile

Shlurpbop · 19/08/2013 22:19

Im a proper too-scared-to-leave-the-island-for-too-long caulkhead!
I found that the split with people I went to school with who stayed amd those that left is about equal. The ones that left mainly went to do jobs that just dont exist here, but they return to visit family quite frequently!

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