This is a special hello to the driver who decided to park their car on 
the grass verge just around a blind corner, and then got out of the car 
and stood on the *opposite* side of the road... TO PICK BLACKBERRIES! >_<

1. What, you couldn't have stopped a bit further *away* from the 
junction, so I have time to notice your car before I drive into it?

2. I especially love the way your car is blocking one side of the road, 
and you're standing on the other side as well. Very nice.

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> This is a special hello to the driver who decided to park their car on
> the grass verge just around a blind corner, and then got out of the car
> and stood on the *opposite* side of the road... TO PICK BLACKBERRIES! >_<

Foraging at 40mph. Evolution in action.

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And lo On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:46:38 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did  
spake thusly:

> This is a special hello to the driver who decided to park their car on  
> the grass verge just around a blind corner, and then got out of the car  
> and stood on the *opposite* side of the road... TO PICK BLACKBERRIES! >_<
>
> 1. What, you couldn't have stopped a bit further *away* from the  
> junction, so I have time to notice your car before I drive into it?
>
> 2. I especially love the way your car is blocking one side of the road,  
> and you're standing on the other side as well. Very nice.

Yeah, but you know that's the way they were driving. The incident I see a  
lot of is on a two-lane one-way system. The car parks in the left hand  
lane, gets out into the road and then crosses to get to the Chinese  
takeaway. It's a one-way street; it's not as if you're going to be facing  
oncoming traffic or something, yet that's what everyone does.

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Le 27/09/2010 13:52, Phil Cook v2 a écrit :
> The incident I see
> a lot of is on a two-lane one-way system. The car parks in the left hand
> lane, gets out into the road and then crosses to get to the Chinese
> takeaway. It's a one-way street; it's not as if you're going to be
> facing oncoming traffic or something, yet that's what everyone does.
> 

Special notice: Phil is in a country which drive on the left side.
And It's "normal" behaviour: the lane on the right is for going quicker
than the lane on the left. If they parks on the right lane, the universe
would break as the left line would have to run backward... but it's a
one way... a big no-no.

Most silly in that situation: the driver which park on the left lane get
outs of the car in the middle of the road... risking whatever might
happen. Whereas, had it parked on the right lane, (s)he wouldn't even
had to be in danger. Nahh, too easy!

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Invisible escreveu:
> This is a special hello to the driver who decided to park their car on 
> the grass verge just around a blind corner, and then got out of the car 
> and stood on the *opposite* side of the road... TO PICK BLACKBERRIES! >_<

yeah, sounds like typical pov user behavior.

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And lo On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:58:42 +0100, Le_Forgeron  
<lef### [at] freefr> did spake thusly:

> Le 27/09/2010 13:52, Phil Cook v2 a écrit :
>> The incident I see
>> a lot of is on a two-lane one-way system. The car parks in the left hand
>> lane, gets out into the road and then crosses to get to the Chinese
>> takeaway. It's a one-way street; it's not as if you're going to be
>> facing oncoming traffic or something, yet that's what everyone does.
>>
>
> Special notice: Phil is in a country which drive on the left side.
> And It's "normal" behaviour: the lane on the right is for going quicker
> than the lane on the left. If they parks on the right lane, the universe
> would break as the left line would have to run backward... but it's a
> one way... a big no-no.
>
> Most silly in that situation: the driver which park on the left lane get
> outs of the car in the middle of the road... risking whatever might
> happen. Whereas, had it parked on the right lane, (s)he wouldn't even
> had to be in danger. Nahh, too easy!

Exactly - the even stupider bit is that now they're blocking one of the  
lanes all the traffic is being funneled into the one lane they have to  
cross to get back to their car and open their door into.

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Phil Cook

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Le_Forgeron wrote:
> Most silly in that situation: the driver which park on the left lane get
> outs of the car in the middle of the road... risking whatever might
> happen. Whereas, had it parked on the right lane, (s)he wouldn't even
> had to be in danger. Nahh, too easy!

There's speculation that the reason some drive on the left and some on the 
right is the difference of dismounting a horse wearing a sword vs wearing a 
pistol.

Having recently been in such places as Arcos, Spain, where many of the roads 
are too narrow to walk two *people* abreast, where there's a bus stop in the 
middle of one of the restaurants, and where the taxi drops you off two 
blocks from the hotel because that's all the closer it can get, I must say 
seeing these complaints is rather quaintly amusing. :-)

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        Need S'Mores!

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>> 2. I especially love the way your car is blocking one side of the
>> road, and you're standing on the other side as well. Very nice.
>
> Yeah, but you know that's the way they were driving.

Actually, no... They were parked on the WRONG side of the road! I hadn't 
even realised that until just now...

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