To offer my sincere and heartfelt apologies..

[NoCountry]

To the woman who, as I crossed the road in the rain in front of her car at a junction, took the time to shout out of her window 'This isn't a crossing you know!'

I just feel awful about the 1.5 seconds I delayed her massively massively important journey

Anyone else like to get a sincere apology off their chest?

Sorry OP, I wouldn't shout at you but I'd probably be annoyed if you stepped in front of my car.

I'm terrified of hitting someone and some pedestrians are nutters, walking out as if my car couldn't possibly hurt them. My favourite was a mother who pushed her young DD out into the road on her unicorn trike between two parked cars. Luckily I'd seen her as I was driving up and slowed down.

Or the driver could be entering the road so accelerating.

In fact it sounds like she was stationary at a junction to me and OP crossed in front, hence the delay as she had to wait an extra second before she could pull out.

People post these kind of comments on ‘local’ Fakebook pages, they’re pretty daft then too.

drove his very large premium brand car the wrong way down a very wide pedestrianised road

How do you drive the "wrong way" on a pedestrianized road? That implies there is a right way.

I'm not sorry for flipping my mirrors tonight and reflecting the full beam coming from the car behind back to them. I should be but I'm not. Oddly enough, they seemed to drop back after that. Like I say, sorry not sorry.

OP. You should be thanking that woman driver for making sure she has good brakes , decent tyres and quick reactions because stopping distances in rain are further than most people think.

The usual mumsnet - maybe this, maybe that. Her excuse so far was that she’d waited long enough in the rain.

Are you the woman who stepped into the road at the junction in front of me today, in the pitch dark, wearing all black when there's a zebra crossing 20 yards away? It was made all the more fun that the woman had walked around a barrier so was hanging on to the few inches of pavement that aren't supposed to be walked on and yet was still massively indignant at my beeping! Quite shook me up!

@NoCountry so you were happy for someone to nearly crash their car cos you’re lazy and entitled and don’t like a bit of rain?
Diddums

@DesLynamsMoustache until the OP clarifies, we don't know

I'd like to apologise to my grumpy, entitled git of a son for not using my psychic powers to discern that he did not want cottage pie for dinner today.

If I’m driving and I’m in that position, not moving at a junction, I’d wave the pedestrian over, letting them know I’ve seen them and I won’t be moving so they can cross.

As a pedestrian I’d never assume the actions of a driver.

Fuck me, no ones ever been a pedestrian on here? Bunch of crabby old misers knocking about tonight.

I'm with you OP.

To the woman who swore at me in WH Smith.

I am so sorry that standing still, near, but not in front of the till and nowhere near the queue, led you to believe I was the queue.

The sign saying QUEUE HERE and the four people standing by it, directly in front of the till, were so subtly placed that it was easy to mistake me for the queue.

I further apologise for realising that you were so busy with your phone, that you must have thought I was waiting to pay (instead of deciding which chocolate bar to pick for my meal deal), apologising to you and telling you that I wasn't in the queue, thereby allowing you to join the actual queue.

I wholeheartedly apologise for causing you convenience and can assure you that it won't happen again.

You foulmouthed, Candy Crush muppet.

@turnthebiglightoff I don't own a car and I commute about 40 minutes a day walking. The OP is still clearly in the wrong.

The message we teach children is to stop, look, listen, and wait until its safe. Not step into traffic regardless just because you don't want to wait anymore and don't want to go to a crossing.

I’m a pedestrian frequently. I don’t walk in front of cars as they might, you know, hurt me.

To the woman in Asda who hurried down the aisle ( family rushing behind her) and did a jokey skid stop in my path then shouted "You're welcome". My heartfelt apology for not saying thank you as you skid stopped in my path - you turd.

Fucking hell there’s some right fucking mood hoovers on here at the moment.

*"Oh gosh, I’d like to apologise to the poor English woman who visited my small charity shop in Wales to purchase books and who asked for a carrier bag. I am ashamed to admit that I asked her for 5p rather than breaking the law and giving it to her free of charge with my Manager stood next to me. Especially as this poor dear went into a massive rant about how she’s never known a town like it and every shop was demanding 5p for bags now, she was extremely pissed off with me personally (of course). I had the brass neck to explain that it is in fact the law to ask customers to pay for bags now to which she snorted gracefully and said ‘What? The law of the shop? hmm’ I’d like to offer her my sincerest fauxpology for her fucking stupidity.
Before anyone starts having paroxysms of shock I am well aware that not all English people are like this ..." *

We've been paying 5p for bags in England for years. Sometimes charity shops will give you a recycled bag for free (ie. a carrier bag that someone has donated so it's not new), but it's 5p everywhere. Sounds like she has time travelled from 2009 or something!

She on ere then?

Cars are quite big, heavy, hard and hurt much more than a bit of rain if they hit you.

Never a good idea to walk in front of one.

HTH

You’re lucky she didn’t give you a proper mouthful, you walked in front of a moving car. She might have killed you, or had the car behind her hit her car.

You can’t just go walking out in front of cars because you’re getting wet. Engage a few brain cells - rain won’t kill you, a car might - not to mention frightening/killing other people.

Why did you cross in front of her car
To get to the other side

Im sorry @NoCountry are you a chicken

If the car was stationery at the junction I thought that pedestrians have right of way? Or is that just when cars turn into a road?
used to be that in Highway Code years ago, but maybe it's changed now.