25-01-2023, 02:41 PM
(25-01-2023, 02:09 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: Scooting into the village is always interesting, and today it was especially so. There is one road crossing I have to do where the entrance back to the footpath is such an awful angle the scoot is unbalanced when I tackle it, so I use a short piece of the cycle lane to get to the next driveway and back on the footpath. I try to assess oncoming traffic and time it right, and so far on all my days of wickedness car drivers have been very courteous, but I am aware it is breaking rules.
Today I did it, again, carefully, only to realise the oncoming car was a police car...
Talk about feel guilty, lol, but the officer was obviously too busy to haul over a scooting crip for a good talking too and ignored the naughtiness.
Except, when I did it on the way back... Same cop car, ooops... And same look the other way.
Maybe they know that we have no alternative. But I still feel guilty.
Oh! And last night our combined laundry (yuk yuk yuk I hate that place) got a new machine delivered to replace a falling apart front loader. And we've been granted a beautiful new F&P eco top loader. It's like Christmas, lol...
No idea what has come over the corporate LL - a fit of the commonsensicals perhaps?
Perhaps those cops realise that its a difficult? That, or they'd get a flea in their ear from their grans if they'd given you a ticket..
I've been doing something similar on the bike - there's a corner which is a bit difficult as its on a slight bend so that to check both ways means being a bit too far out into the road & you could be in the way of oncoming cars. I came up with the solution of using the footpath just to get round the corner which worked well, especially with a load of groceries but the other day I met a bloody postie pedal van thing on the corner so have had to give that up dammit - they're never usually so early & I might possibly have sworn slightly.
Good luck with the new washer.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)