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Original poster

To think you don’t beep your horn at pedestrians with sleeping children in prams?

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CatsForgotPassword · 25/02/2018 14:01

Just had a total arsehole do this to me, when we were crossing the road. Apparently I wasn’t moving fast enough and I got a mouthful of abuse too.

You don’t do that, do you? I have joint pain, severe pain and depression and DS is ASD and I’d just got him to sleep.

Why do some people enjoy being such knobs to others?

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FrancisCrawford · 25/02/2018 16:28

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SaucyJack · 25/02/2018 16:28

*snowflake drivers

surreygirl1987 · 25/02/2018 16:28

You were DEFINITELY taught wrong! 🙈

Ahhh so you were on a junction!! Any other info to drip feed? Yes it does matter. You are aware that a junction is a terrible place to cross a road, right? If find that a dangerous spot even for just myself - and I can move fast. But to cross at a junction with a buggy....?!?!

Drivers can honk to alert of danger. From the sounds of it, this is EXACTLY what he was doing!

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CatsForgotPassword · 25/02/2018 16:29

Francis you sound like a school teacher. Crossing when no cars are around is how most adults cross the road.

Why are some drivers so inconsiderate? I swear some think just because they’re in a car they can ride roughshod over everyone, and I hate it.

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430West · 25/02/2018 16:30

It’s just common decency really

No, its's not. There are rules of the road that everyone needs to follow. In different situations, different people have right of way.

The point is, everyone needs to follow the same set of rules (even you OP). If people just make it up as they go along the result is really unsafe as people can't predict what you will do and can easily misjudge your intentions or your next move.

I'm sorry, but I'm starting to feel my strings are being pulled.Nobody can be so ignorant not to realise this?

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CatsForgotPassword · 25/02/2018 16:30

SaucyJack well said. Glad someone on here lives in the real world.

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430West · 25/02/2018 16:30

Just out of interest, Do you hold a current,full driving licence op?

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CatsForgotPassword · 25/02/2018 16:31

No, it’s not a terrible place to cross. It’s a road by my house that needs crossing if I am to set foot outside.

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FrancisCrawford · 25/02/2018 16:31

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CatsForgotPassword · 25/02/2018 16:31

No, I don’t drive.

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CatsForgotPassword · 25/02/2018 16:32

Most people cross roads when no cars are coming Francis

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PiffIeandWiffIe · 25/02/2018 16:32

If you were walking so slowly that you couldn't cross the road in the time it'd take a car to appear on that stretch then it wasn't the best place for you to cross - either go to somewhere where you can see further or where there is a crossing.

YABU

surreygirl1987 · 25/02/2018 16:32

430West absolutely. I'm getting concerned that the OP appears not to have learned anything from this.. and I just hope this doesn't happen again.

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CatsForgotPassword · 25/02/2018 16:33

I’m not significantly slower than anyone else. I’ve already said this.

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TheFairyCaravan · 25/02/2018 16:34

Did you really cross the road at a crossroads?

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CatsForgotPassword · 25/02/2018 16:35

It’s not reckless to cross a road when there are no cars coming. There were none.

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430West · 25/02/2018 16:35

No, I don’t drive

I thought not. Might be worth at least putting yourself through the theory part of the test so you can understand how the Highway Code works and safely interact with the traffic on the roads?

Especially as you have a DC to consider now too? To use an awful cliche, don't die of ignorance.

Fluffy40 · 25/02/2018 16:35

As long as you weren’t on your phone, I might hoot at a pedestrian on the phone for reasons of safety.

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CatsForgotPassword · 25/02/2018 16:36

430 and maybe drivers should take a basic human decency test to learn how not to be such, to use a term someone used, snowflakes

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DailyMailReadersAreThick · 25/02/2018 16:36

How PFB. You know most people don't notice what your kid is doing in the buggy, right?

Nobody should beep at anybody, precious sleeping baby or not, for being too slow. But it's more likely the driver beeped you as a warning because you were IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD NOT AT A CROSSING.

So if there’s no cars, people stand there waiting for a red light? hmm never seen that, ever.

Uh, yes, I always wait. Because I'm slow.

anon135 · 25/02/2018 16:38

OP if you have to make a car deliberately slow down when they wouldn't normally, then you are in the way and shouldn't be there. You are ignorant.

ILostItInTheEarlyNineties · 25/02/2018 16:39

OP the main argument seems to be that you believe that if you're slowly crossing a road any approaching cars that appear in your view line must slow or stop. Please don't assume that will happen!

Some drivers will slow, smile and wave you across. Some drivers are not observant. Some won't slow. Just assume they haven't seen you and won't stop.

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CatsForgotPassword · 25/02/2018 16:41

OP the main argument seems to be that you believe that if you're slowly crossing a road any approaching cars that appear in your view line must slow or stop. Please don't assume that will happen!

My argument is if you come into a road a pedestrian is already on, its polite and decent to let them go without being a huge anus

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StaplesCorner · 25/02/2018 16:43

Give way to pedestrians always and forever, end of.