things that p*** off pedestrians (well me anyway)

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1. being waved across the road by a driver. Friendly or impatient it is not helpful. I decide when I am crossing the road.

2. Not indicating - there is a crossing next to the train station and it is 50/50 whether cars turning off the roundabout indicate so you can be there for hours not sure if you can cross or if the car is going to make the left turn.

3. starting to go through the crossing before the pedestrian is across the road. I have had my heels clipped a few times.

4. finally one for some moped/ motorbikes / cyclists in cities red lights also apply to you!

There's a repeat pavement parking offender round our way. Exacerbated by the fact that she nearly always parks opposite one of those utility boxes so that the pavement is even narrower. If someone with a large pram or a wheelchair user needs to get by, her lovely shiny car is in danger of being scratched.

I walk ragged - I like walking and I do cycle on pavements but not when there are pedestrians and I always give pedestrians priority when on wheels. I agree people are funny about walking. I despair it is worse now I am in the sticks - pavements are terrible, people park on them or they are too narrow or non existent in some places. At least in the big smoke we had friggin pavements to be pedestrians on.

This is very specific but it really got on my tits.

The Sloaney neighbours had a Sloaney teenage nanny. She'd arrive for work on a cream and chrome Lambretta that had been bought by mummy and daddy.

She'd come off the road at speed at the low kerb and then swerve to a halt outside their house, unclipping her red leather helmet as she did.

I guess they had a Fellini or Jean-Luc Godard Appreciation Society at her finishing school and she had a little film starring her rattling around her empty bonce.

It always annoyed me but I couldn't complain until I was emerging up the basement steps and the clueless cunt hit me.

I hobbled round to the Sloaney neighbours to complain. From then on she wheeled it. But both she and they thought I had no romance in my soul.

I imagine she's either married to an investment banker now or in the cemetery.

limited what a twat - yep it is that clueless showy twatishness in some drivers that risks everyone else because they are in a hunk of metal so they will be fine that really does boil my piss. I hope you were alright/ accidently scratched her paint work with your key.

I walk loads. More than I drive.

I live in a fairly old town with narrow streets in the town centre that aren't wide enough for 2 way traffic.

I think the local town planners were high when they worked out the one way system as it's incredibly convoluted and far quicker to walk than even attempt to work it out

I also occasionally cycle on the pavement, but I don't hare along them at breakneck speed scattering pedestrians in my wake

From the Highway code for pedestrians crossing the road

"If traffic is coming, let it pass. Look all around again and listen. Do not cross until there is a safe gap in the traffic and you are certain that there is plenty of time. Remember, even if traffic is a long way off, it may be approaching very quickly."

Cyclists on the pavement is my main one, the local vicar does this, he also uses the bike like a scooter and is not at all in control of it, I keep hoping he will knock into a passing Bishop and get excommunicated.

As mentioned pavement car parking, there should be a by-law preventing it, but it is rife where I live, even though all the houses have driveways/private parking.

See line was being sarcastic

YY to drivers not slowing down to turn into the side road I have already started to cross. I listen out for vehicles I can't see, and stay on the pavement if I hear them slowing down. If they simply whizz around the corner I have no feckin chance. I'm not so pissed off about drivers waving me across as I know their hearts are in the right place, but all the same I'd rather go at my own pace and not feel pressured into scuttling across and out of the way. I almost got killed once by a van overtaking a coach whose driver had stopped for me just off a dual carriageway.

Closest shave recently was at the bottom of some steps right outside a new supermarket where the kerb had been lowered to allow access to the car park. Some dozy pillock nearly had the legs off me when they ploughed straight onto the path from the road. I hadn't even got to the entrance to the car park. That whole arrangement pisses me off, actually, both as a driver and a pedestian. In my head it's still part of the pavement, and I take my time waiting and looking for pedestrians. When I'm on foot, it seems most drivers think I should get off the bloody road.

-People who bag up dog mess then drop the bag in the middle of the pavement. Why? Just why? The horrid bit is the bagging up, it's not much effort to take the bag to a bin is it?
-zigzag school run parkers. Your child can manage to walk an extra 50m to school, or they wouldn't be well enough for the school day. What gives you the right to endanger other children's lives?
-people who randomly stop after crossings, after getting out of lifts, at the end of escalators. I will step on your heels, be warned!

Big sigh at all the "I cycle on the pavement but it's okay" posts.

Cyclists whizzing through red lights as if they dont apply to them.Cars not indicating really gets on my wick.

People pressing for the green man and then not waiting for it to appear.Then slapping or giving out to the child when the child runs on the road.

People crossing 2 inches from the traffic lights,why do they do that.It makes no sense.

People who don't even bother to pick up dog mess;
Drivers who don't indicate;
Cyclists who use the pavement when the road is safe to use - and who cycle round corners at speed;
Drivers who speed up when you are crossing the road;
Drivers who stop on crossings!
Drivers who don't stop at crossings.... etc, etc

Ted - context - ie. in between villages, narrow pavement next to whizzy A road, no pedestrians during the day aside from school children at 9 and 3, then yes I will cycle on road and pavement keeping eye out for pedestrians and marvelling at the complete lack of them. I match your sigh with a shrug.

In a town absolutely keep to the road if your are over 12 but there are conditions out of town where cycling can be more safely done with a pavement flexible attitude.

cars using the pavement to park while i'm walking along it. happened today and once it happened when it was very icy and the car skidded and I had visions of being pinned between it and a wall.

just wait til the pedestrian is past - not too much to ask, surely.

cars that have their full beam on when you are walking on a pavement in the dark, thus temporarily blinding you.

cars that don't indicate when you are trying to cross a road, so you don't know which way they will go.

When you get two Mums with push chairs who are having a chat so they walk two abreast down the pavement - but when someone is coming the other way they don't go back to single file but expect the other person to step in to the road and go around them.

5foot I only remember this once and I just stood my ground until they went single-file.

Special shout out today for the fucking miserable cow who muttered at me and my three year old for walking across her dropped curb too slowly when she was waiting to turn into her drive. We were there first, we weren't dawdling, but a three year old only moves so fast. It won't kill her to wait all of 10 seconds. She was lucky all she got was an 'excuse me' and a .

There is a road near my house that seems to be some sort of 'turning circle' for all the drivers who can't read maps and think the road joins to the A road It's a t-junction, quite close to the school. So these drivers come off the roundabout see the flyover at the end of the road (apparently this is a better clue than the 'no through road' sign on the roundabout), realise they've gone wrong and immediately go to swing their car round in this t-junction. It is a wide junction (local residential street, off a local residential street). It takes a car less time to get from the roundabout to this junction than it takes to cross the junction as a pedestrian. So we look around. No car on either road and start to cross. Frequently a car will decide it must urgently turn around (without generally indicating) and then sound their horn wave their hands and scream at me for putting my children in danger as we are still crossing the road.
That pisses me off quite a bit really.

YY to cyclists on pavements. Get in the road. I understand if you find it too challenging. So do I. That's why I don't ride a bike.

Car parks designed with consideration to how people get safely across the space once they've parked, particularly when they are pushing trolleys laden with freshly purchased goods. Also, office complexes with car parks but no safe pedestrian routes for bus users, etc.

Bus stops next to narrow pavements - where the people waiting stand slap-bang in the middle, so pedestrians have to weave a circuit around them. Why not stand to one side?

People who decide to stop and have a long, involved chat in the middle of the pavement, usually where it is narrow or busy. Why not stand to one side?

A duo of parents with buggies charging towards me, pushing me into the gutter.

Adult cyclists on pavements.

Adult cyclists in parks going way to fast, leaving a scattering of small toddlers and scared mums.

Those idiots who drive dirt bikes at high speed around parks - small toddlers, scared mums etc.

Somebody stop me. I have Rage today.

Might have missed it but I hate mobility scooters, especially those being driven at ridiculous speeds! They are meant to help if you can't 'walk' not enable you to travel at the speed of light, knocking kids over as you fly past.

MrsRossPoldark At the very least third-party insurance should be compulsory.

agree with being waved across the road. If I can't see sufficiently I will wait, I'm not going to trust a random driver's opinions. and please never wave children across. when the boys were younger I would allow them to walk ahead but they had to wait for me to catch up to cross the road. once a driver got really cross because ds wouldn't cross, kept beeping and waving him across. I guess he was trying to be helpful but d's knew the rules so rightly didn't move.