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!

Parking on the pavement.

The walk to DS' nursery is on a long narrow path. There's no path on the other side of the road. Delivery drivers, builders, the postman, constantly park on the path which leaves me no option but to walk in the road. Which involves tentatively standing on the edge of the road and sticking my head out to check there's no cars coming the other way.

Just before this narrow road is a church with a small patch of grass and a path outside. Once a week there's a baby group there and all the mums park there cars along the path and on the grass and completely block it. So again it's another walk in the road

I've got a good one...
There's a road near where I live that I have to cross regularly to take ds1 to preschool. You have a choice - cross at the very top of the t-junction where there's a dropped kerb but due to the curve on the pavement you have next to no visibility if anything is coming.
Option two - walk a few feet from the junction and cross where there is no dropped kerb, but a path to the road and much better visibility.
Option one I stopped doing pretty quickly, you just can't see and it's not safe. Option 2....
Went to cross yesterday. A white van was at the top of the junction so we went to cross behind it.
What does the white van do?
Randomly reverses.
Nearly hits us. I'm mid way through getting my buggy with ds2 up the kerb and nearly end up tipping it up in my panic.
He was 'giving way' to a pedestrian using the dropped kerb. Won't even apologise, just sits there looking fat and stupid mumbling 'I didn't see you!'
Why? Why randomly reverse when you can't see what's behind you??

I've got a good one...
There's a road near where I live that I have to cross regularly to take ds1 to preschool. You have a choice - cross at the very top of the t-junction where there's a dropped kerb but due to the curve on the pavement you have next to no visibility if anything is coming.
Option two - walk a few feet from the junction and cross where there is no dropped kerb, but a path to the road and much better visibility.
Option one I stopped doing pretty quickly, you just can't see and it's not safe. Option 2....
Went to cross yesterday. A white van was at the top of the junction so we went to cross behind it.
What does the white van do?
Randomly reverses.
Nearly hits us. I'm mid way through getting my buggy with ds2 up the kerb and nearly end up tipping it up in my panic.
He was 'giving way' to a pedestrian using the dropped kerb. Won't even apologise, just sits there looking fat and stupid mumbling 'I didn't see you!'
Why? Why randomly reverse when you can't see what's behind you??

Sheesh this tablet! Half the time it losesmy post and the other half... Sorry!

People who do the 'crawl up sloooowly to the red light because you hope it'll turn green before you have to stop completely' thing, without any awareness of what's going on around them.

If I'm driving behind you and indicating to turn left at the lights, but you're blocking the turning lane with your crawwwwwling bullshit, I'm going to get Very Annoyed.

Parking their cars in the concreted-over front garden of their house, then not looking as they drive out over the damn pavement.

Buying a house with a diddy front garden, concreting it over to park their car on, then buying a massive car which hugely overhangs the garden and thus blocks most of the pavement.

Getting permission to not only concrete over their own front garden, but also turn a portion of the pavement into a sloped drive, which then becomes a deathtrap when it is snowy or icy in the winter. In the summer the slope gently funnels small children on scooters and trikes directly into the road.

Cyclists who suddenly decide to use the pedestrian crossing or the pavement to avoid the red traffic light - I sae a great one who whizzed up to the red light on the road, cut up onto the pavement, shot across the pedestrian crossing narrowly missing 2 people, and then swerved back into the road.

Anyone (pedestrian or cyclist) with bloody headphones in that means they are paying no attention to what's going on around them.

Haven't RTFT, so am probably repeating, but:

cyclists who race across a pedestrian crossing when it's pedestrians' turn, and shouting/ringing at me for having the temerity to be walking across it.

Drivers waving me magnanimously across zebra crossings. Gee, thanks.

Drivers driving badly because they're on their phone. Arrogant, dangerous bastards.

Oh, there are many more ...

Any wheeled object on a pavement that's going faster than fast walking pace (regardless of the age of the driver). Adult cyclists are welcome to take their bicycles on pavements whenever they like, as long as they wheel them.

I work in one of the most touristy areas in the country and it's just not possible to stop every time someone wants to take a photo. You'd honestly never get anywhere. You do, however, get very good at getting people to let you past.

The twat on his bike going at high speed, whistling away like an enthusiastic canary trying to warn me and my boys that he's going to crash into us unless we move. (We were on a pavement). He got grumpy when one of the boys said "use the road"!

When i'm crossing the road with ds & the people on the opposite pavement don't notice & block me getting on there.. Usually when a cars approaching :/