To post rules 8 and 170 of the Highway Code for some drivers

[PastaLaFeasta]

Hopefully I am being a bit U as there shouldn't be many people being arses but I need to get out the rant after the school run walk home. And yes I'm a driver too.

We were crossing a side road while walking alongside a main road. Nothing coming after a car has driven out on to the main road. Get halfway and a car approaches indicating. We carry on walking, no change of pace because there's no obligation to run out of the way or stop to let the car pass but we get angrily beeped and glared at. Nice. She even stopped a little longer to show her displeasure.

So Ms Ford Focus I suggest you brush up on your Highway Code and next time you are late for the school run or whatever you don't take your impatience out on a five year old and their parent, who in this case probably does walk a bit slow thanks to a bad back and unstable pelvis (who often lets cars pass who offer to let me cross because I know I'm a bit slow and can't run without pain). I've made it easy for you by pasting the rules below.

Rule 8
When crossing the road, look out for traffic turning into the road, especially from behind you. If you have started crossing and traffic wants to turn into the road, you have priority and they should give way (see Rule 170).

Part of Rule 170
Watch out for pedestrians crossing a road into which you are turning. If they have started to cross they have priority, so give way.

Yeah, sorry for de-railing, OP. I've given my response to your actual AIBU above.

But to be fair, it can be annoying if you're waiting to turn and conscious of the fact that you're holding up cars behind you when it looks as if the person is dawdling and/or not even aware that you're waiting. (I'm aware you have mobility issues).

So give her a break. Maybe she was having the worst day of her life.

It's only annoying if you're a twat who can't accept that pedestrians have as much right to use the roads safely as you do.

Can I send out to the driver (not a Ford Focus) that if you decide to go into the Left Hand Filter Lane instead of queuing for the lane that you can go straight ahead on , you have to go Left .

Even if you ignore all the fecking signs and the huge arrow on the road pointing Left .
If you have made an error (and Yes , we all do, Holds Hands Up), it is far far safer to go left and re-route than to cut someone up (me) because you didn't want to queue.

Good job it was me. Anyone else would've ripped your head off and pissed in the hole

Saucy, the polite thing to do, in any circumstance, is to minimise inconvenience to others. Yes, of course pedestrians can cross the road but they should hurry the fuck up if I'm waiting to turn and there's a big queue forming behind me!

Eg when I'm a pedestrian, I don't always push the green button to stop the cars, I just wait for the approaching gap in the traffic, if there is one and then nip across.

Consideration, y'see.

One might think that if one's idea of consideration means pedestrians should hurry the fuck up when it's their right of way just for the sake of motorists who can't wait 30 secs then one is a fucking cunt who shouldn't be behind the wheel of a car.

Drivers don't own the road.

(Awaits deletion message)

Snort!

I'm certainly not going to report your message!

Well, yeah, I am an impatient bitch. Not a fucking cunt though. Although I do have a cunt and it has been fucked.

Don't take life so seriously, Saucy! Do you drive? If so, have you never been impatient? I would never toot at someone though, like in the OP, that was out of order.

I'm giving my honest opinion. And I am human, just like you!

Hope you don't get deleted because you're bang on SaucyJack.

OP yanbu at all. I don't think most drivers even know that it's the pedestrian's right of way in that situation.

FYI, Saucy, learn to read the tongue in cheek humour in some posts!

Left, but you're attitude seems to be that pedestrians ought to ge grateful for drivers doing what they're supposed to. As a driver do you thank pedestrians for not stepping out into the road in front of you?

Nah, it's pretty obvious that if the pedestrian is already on the road, then they should be allowed to cross safely to the other side.

Sometimes they hesitate either just before they step off the kerb or even when they're partway across and I wave them over. Sometimes if they were just stepping off the kerb, they jump back and let me go. Then I thank them.

Soooo, should I never bother to say thank you to anyone if they're just doing what they have to do?

Eg a busdriver lets me on and off the bus. I don't say thank you cos it's his job?

Cross post - by coincidence I actually described in my last post occasions where I DO thank pedestrians for not stepping out into the road.

Thing is Left..... is that it just isn't very fucking funny.

Out in the real world, I'm generally pushing my 19-month-old in a buggy in front of me. Only takes one shit who thinks 170 is a triviality to kill her.

What isn't funny? That I let you across (as per your right) but secretly wish you would hurry the fuck up? How would that hurt you or your kid? Are you the thought police?

I think you need to head to the grip shop. And the sense of humour shop. I see you've already been to the cat's bum mouth shop!

Gawd, how folk on here get so wound up, I'll never understand!

Team Saucy

I hardly think feeling a touch impatient (but waiting patiently nonetheless) for a pedestrian to cross is quite the same as being a dangerous boy-racer type!

I take it you are not a driver. It is very stressful at times in traffic and yes, we all swear under our breath sometimes and get impatient if we have been held up. Whilst you toddle along with your buggy, oblivious and seemingly without a care in the world!

If people don't know this, they really shouldn't be driving, it's a very basic principle. But YABU to tell us because we probably either already know or maybe some don't drive. You should have told the driver who behaved like a cock they were unaware.

Yeah, yeah. She's technically right. But I'm the one in the real world!

Is honking "waiting patiently"?

I have never honked. For the avoidance of doubt, PosterEh, I am not Mrs Ford Focus. I wait patiently (on the face of it, whilst only IMAGINING ploughing into slow pedestrians!)

Yeah saucy don't hold up the very important people doing very important things with your "toddling".

Ta muchly!

How about the rule to not beep the horn between the hours of 11.30pm and 7am, especially when dropping people off to say goodbye or picking people up to get their attention, maybe a quick text or a couple of rings on their mobile instead or is that too much to ask.