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Original poster

To offer my sincere and heartfelt apologies..

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NoCountry · 07/01/2020 20:31

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?

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justcly · 07/01/2020 21:36

Can people please stop derailing this thread? It is quite obvious from the get-go that it is not intended to be a thread about road users rights and responsibilities.

Mammatino · 07/01/2020 21:40

Oh this is funny, I think it's very very much tongue in cheek to get us to tell us silly stories. Unless she is in fact a chicken.

Cherrysoup · 07/01/2020 21:41

Dumb to dash across a junction in the rain. Don’t you drive? Visibility is very reduced and the surface is slippy, plus the driver might have just decided to forge ahead. Don’t you value yourself? I’ve had parents pushing buggies at speed as I’ve been actually on a junction recently. Risk yourself, not your child!

MollysMummy2010 · 07/01/2020 21:44

I also think that if a pedestrian is already on the road then they have right of way... should not shout at them but maybe crossing on a corner with kids isn't ideal if they are not easy to see.

Taswama · 07/01/2020 21:47

@cate16 is correct. The person going straight on has priority over the person turning. So if I’m walking down a main road and have to cross a side street I have priority over a car whether they are turning in or turning out. I would also cross in front of a car waiting to pull out (making eye contact first) as if I cross behind I’m invisible to a car turning into the same junction.

My pet hate however (both as a pedestrian and a driver) is people crossing a few metres away from a zebra or pelican crossing.

ferrier · 07/01/2020 21:48

I'd like to fauxpologise to the driver I blocked this afternoon.
I was in a section of road which had cars parked on both sides and therefore only room for one way traffic. I was already in this narrow section of road. She was just approaching it and instead of pulling to one side like most normal drivers do, she drove into the narrow section. Seeing that I wouldn't be able to exit the narrow section, I stopped a short distance from the only gap in the parked cars which was on her side of the road. In her infinite wisdom she elected not to use the obvious gap to pull into and came bonnet to bonnet with my car. Luckily for me there were some more cars behind me so in the end with much huffing puffing and probably unseemly swearing she inexpertly manoeuvred her car back into the gap and we all filed past.
Less haste, more speed say I.
So a big fauxpology and a 'what a plonker'.

eaglejulesk · 07/01/2020 21:52

I apologise to all those car drivers I glare at when they fail to stop for me at a pedestrian crossing, and also those who continue to turn into the road when I am crossing at the lights (making me wait for them!!!)

lljkk · 07/01/2020 21:54

yanbu to OP

Mine is also car related... as a driver. I apologise to all those people who hate me driving the speed limit. I suppose I delayed your journey by a good 20 seconds in C-village. Don't worry, like so many others, you'll get to furiously overtake as soon as we clear the last bend in the 30 zone (the exact place where I got 3 points for doing 34 in a 30mph zone).

If I wasn't in your way, You'd be 6 miles down the road already with that extra 20 seconds (ok, not really, but I imagine you like to tell yourself that). Being ANGRY at someone is so fashionable right now.

GlummyMcGlummerson · 07/01/2020 21:55

I'd like to apologise to the woman who parked over a white line in a car park that when I parked correctly in the space next to her (literally the only space available on Christmas Eve) she made a shop assistant do a tannoy announcement to get me out so she could tell me off for parking there. In a peking space. She needs the room, you see, she has a child. Yeah love I have two I still don't need to park over 2 spaces! When she called me a stupid cow and I said "I'm not getting into an argument with a stranger the day before Christmas because they couldn't park properly" she said "What so you think because it's Christmas tomorrow you can just park that close to my car" no you fucking dipshit. It reminded me of when people twist your words on MN anyway orange-face who can't park in sooooooo sorry you're shit at parking. Really

Scoobydoobywho · 07/01/2020 21:57

I would like to apologise to the man for having the audacity to park outside his house, before he to move my f@£&ing car before he put the windows in.

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NoCountry · 07/01/2020 21:57

Do you drive OP?

Yes I do, and do you know what? I've been known to slow down to let people cross the road! I know - what a idiot!

The place I was waiting has dropped kerbs either side with those knobbly things on the paving so presumably designated by the council as a place to cross. They just couldn't care enough about pointless pedestrians to put in an actual crossing, as this woman was so very thoughtful to point out.

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eaglejulesk · 07/01/2020 21:58

Another apology to the drivers I glare at when they stop at the lights ACROSS the pedestrian walkway, making me walk out into the road.

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NoCountry · 07/01/2020 21:58

And I ain't no chicken

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wowfudge · 07/01/2020 22:02

Loving fauxpologise @ferrier.

YappityYapYap · 07/01/2020 22:03

It's an idiot, not a idiot. Sorry, I couldn't help myself because you cheekily corrected someone else's grammar earlier on and that sort of thing bothers me because it's such a lame comeback and I also enjoy hypocrite spotting 😁

tillytoodles1 · 07/01/2020 22:05

To the man who reversed into me from a stationary position. I apologise for calling you a fucking idiot and shouting that you should look into your mirror before reversing. I also apologise for thumping your boot, I may have made a dent.

slipperywhensparticus · 07/01/2020 22:05

I would love to apologise to a car that screamed in front of me today we were turning into the same road by the school actually I was turning he came out of nowhere from the opposite direction and dived infront if me despite me being already nose in the road I mean I WOULD apologise but I cant bothered because he was an arse who nearly HIT my car I had my DAUGHTER in it and you drive like a fucking TWAT

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NoCountry · 07/01/2020 22:06

it wasn't a lame comeback, it was a genuine correction.

Thanks so much for you're correction. I am genuinely sorry that it bothered you

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Gonetoget · 07/01/2020 22:08

The women in the takeaway who had parked diagonally across the small car park blocking me and everyone else in, obviously your desire for Chinese food takes priority over everyone else's need to get home. I am sooo sorry I asked you to move your car, the cheek of me !
She was quite put out, going off facial expressions and muttering something obscene under her breath.

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NoCountry · 07/01/2020 22:09

tillytoodles1 - did you actually turn into - The Hulk!

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Chuffit · 07/01/2020 22:10

Oh heck OP. Massive fail on your part.
You should have had a brolly with you and then you could have bashed the offended / offending driver over the head with it when she had the audacity to give you a jolly good telling off.

YappityYapYap · 07/01/2020 22:10

I think you're the type that laughs at your own jokes aren't you OP?

rumandbiscuits · 07/01/2020 22:12

😂😂😂 this thread has really made me laugh!! Although I don't agree with jumping out in front of moving cars I am weirdly on the OPs side with this one! I think it's the sarcasm I enjoy!

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NoCountry · 07/01/2020 22:12

But not at yours Yappity...sooo sorry about that.

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SoupDragon · 07/01/2020 22:14

it wasn't a lame comeback, it was a genuine correction.

In that case, you might like to check the punctuation in your OP.

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