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Rick
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 Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 12:26 pm Post subject: Things you no longer see too often ... |
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... while driving around.
The mention of the tape from abandoned music cassettes, blowing around in the breeze, lodged in hedgerows etc, is one such example.
Another that springs to mind, is elderly Metros and Chevettes which, when their front valances have gone rusty, are hand-painted with matt black paint. Sills and wheelarches were also treated in the same way on many ageing cars.
RJ
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Rootes75
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I wish that McDonalds and KFC wrappers were a thing we would no longer see when driving around...
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emmerson
Joined: 30 Sep 2008
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Location: South East Wales
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| Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Courteous, considerate drivers seem to be in a minority these days! |
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Ray White
Joined: 02 Dec 2014
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Location: Derby
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| Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Rootes75 wrote: | | I wish that McDonalds and KFC wrappers were a thing we would no longer see when driving around... |
One of my eternal grumps! There is a parking area opposite our house. People stop to admire the view (a local beauty spot) and leave their food wrappers all over the place. The situation became intolerable and residents persuaded the Parish Council to instal a litter bin. We thought that would be an end to it but no! I have been clearing up after litter louts who only had to walk a few yards to deposit their rubbish in the bin!!!!!
Dog walkers are equally disrespectful and that is something else again!!!
Whether it is any better than in the past I can't say for sure but today there is no excuse - if there ever was.
Sorry for the rant...but it makes me feel better!  |
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ukdave2002
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Location: South Cheshire
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| Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Ray White wrote: | | Rootes75 wrote: | | I wish that McDonalds and KFC wrappers were a thing we would no longer see when driving around... |
One of my eternal grumps! There is a parking area opposite our house. People stop to admire the view (a local beauty spot) and leave their food wrappers all over the place. The situation became intolerable and residents persuaded the Parish Council to instal a litter bin. We thought that would be an end to it but no! I have been clearing up after litter louts who only had to walk a few yards to deposit their rubbish in the bin!!!!!
Dog walkers are equally disrespectful and that is something else again!!!
Whether it is any better than in the past I can't say for sure but today there is no excuse - if there ever was
Sorry for the rant...but it makes me feel better! |
Yep do the same in the turning circle opposite our house, occasionally I have caught them at it, on one occasion I wandered up grabbed the keys and made the spotty teenager pick up every bit of litter that was in sight before he got his keys back !
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Ray White
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Location: Derby
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| Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 9:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Well done Dave!!! |
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ukdave2002
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Location: South Cheshire
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| Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Ray White wrote: | | Well done Dave!!! |
I'd say 95% of the teenagers that descend in front of our house take their litter home, and frankly whatever they are doing ( !!) as long as it doesn't leave a mess and they leave quietly I'm cool about it.....were all teenagers once !
The ones I have challenged go very quickly from being "hard" to "compliant", they really don't want a problem so they comply 
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Ray White
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Location: Derby
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| Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2016 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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| It saddens me to see youngsters gathering across the road from us to take drugs. They get high and drive away like idiots leaving evidence of their activities all around. Fortunately, we have a wonderful local Copper who searches the cars and deals with the offenders. |
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Dipster
Joined: 06 Jan 2015
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Location: UK, France and Portugal - unless I am travelling....
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Spare wheels on heavy vehicles.
It seems moderns are also becoming similarly afflicted too. On HGVs it is to save weight and, I understand, an elfin safety thing. Those trucks and wheels are heavy and the driver cannot be put at risk of jacking the truck up and changing a wheel on his own!...... So they waste an hour or so waiting the tyre specialist to do the job. |
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baconsdozen
Joined: 03 Dec 2007
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Location: Under the car.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2016 10:36 am Post subject: Re: Things you no longer see too often ... |
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| Rick wrote: | ... while driving around.
The mention of the tape from abandoned music cassettes, blowing around in the breeze, lodged in hedgerows etc, is one such example.
Another that springs to mind, is elderly Metros and Chevettes which, when their front valances have gone rusty, are hand-painted with matt black paint. Sills and wheelarches were also treated in the same way on many ageing cars.
RJ |
Reminded me of a salesman in a garage I once worked at. If a car had rusty sills he'd daub them with underseal. As time went on he extended his attentions with the underseal brush to the door bottoms and front and rear valances,it seemed that on every car the demarkation line between paint and underseal moved ever higher.
I left a long,long while ago but at one time was tempted to go back,if for nothing else to see if he had by then reached the door handles.
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peter scott
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| Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2016 11:27 am Post subject: Re: Things you no longer see too often ... |
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| Rick wrote: |
Another that springs to mind,
RJ |
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Ray White
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| Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2016 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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| ...Not that many cars have leaf springs these days... |
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peter scott
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Huw! Too easy for you Mr White!
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goneps
Joined: 18 Jun 2013
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Location: Auckland, New Zealand
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| Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2016 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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| emmerson wrote: | | Courteous, considerate drivers seem to be in a minority these days! |
Or even slightly competent ones, for the matter of that. |
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PAUL BEAUMONT
Joined: 27 Nov 2007
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Location: Barnsley S. Yorks
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| Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2016 1:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Drivers that understand how to use those amber flashing lights also seem to be nearing extinction! |
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