Pet Hates........or FFS

[Pigmy Pony]

A pet hate with me is the need for parents to personally chauffeur their precious bundles to school every day. The justification would be that the roads are too busy for pedestrians. Their actions are a big contribution to these busy roads (see how much easier travel is during school holidays). What they're not saying is that the little geniuses can't be trusted to cross a road.

If I'm in a queue of traffic and I see a car laden with schoolkids, I don't let them out. Why should I make it easier for them to make my commute harder?

2 suggestions:
1. Put a big coat on little Tarquin and kick him out the door with some bus fare.
2. Confiscate their phones so they can concentrate better on their surroundings, instead of gawping at myarseyourfacebook.

[walpurgis]

Woke up today feeling positive, found a leak under sink, bugger,a cheap but annoying fix,took dog out,slipped on ice cut my leg,FFS

You know you should be taking things steady at your age James.

[Pieoftheday]

[QUOTE=walpurgis;929019]You know you should be taking things steady at your age James. [

[Barry]

A pet hate with me is the need for parents to personally chauffeur their precious bundles to school every day. The justification would be that the roads are too busy for pedestrians. Their actions are a big contribution to these busy roads (see how much easier travel is during school holidays). What they're not saying is that the little geniuses can't be trusted to cross a road.

If I'm in a queue of traffic and I see a car laden with schoolkids, I don't let them out. Why should I make it easier for them to make my commute harder?

2 suggestions:
1. Put a big coat on little Tarquin and kick him out the door with some bus fare.
2. Confiscate their phones so they can concentrate better on their surroundings, instead of gawping at myarseyourfacebook.

My parents stopped accompanying me to school after the age of five. Although I went to a boarding school, I was a 'day pupil' because we only lived about a mile away. I was taught how to use a zebra crossing, given the bus fare and expected to make my own way to and from school.

Talking of letting traffic in, why don't people understand that it is one car at a time - I really dislike 'tailgaters' who force their way in!

[walpurgis]

My parents stopped accompanying me to school after the age of five.

Same here. I walked the mile or so each way and remember in the winter, wading through thigh deep snow in my wellies and shorts (weren't allowed long trousers ) and having stinging red thighs once I got where I was going.

[struth]

Same here. I walked the mile or so each way and remember in the winter, wading through thigh deep snow in my wellies and shorts (weren't allowed long trousers ) and having stinging red thighs once I got where I was going.

easy life you had. we had no wellies or short trousers .... not even a school; just a cardboard box!!

[Barry]

easy life you had. we had no wellies or short trousers .... not even a school; just a cardboard box!!

I was thinking the same - "tell that to kids today and they wouldn't believe you".

[Ian7633]

My parents stopped accompanying me to school after the age of five. Although I went to a boarding school, I was a 'day pupil' because we only lived about a mile away. I was taught how to use a zebra crossing, given the bus fare and expected to make my own way to and from school.

Talking of letting traffic in, why don't people understand that it is one car at a time - I really dislike 'tailgaters' who force their way in!

With you all the way there Barry, I really don't remember being taken to school, used to walk to the bus stop with mum, I went to school, she went to work.

As for tailgaters they need to be punched soundly

[Pigmy Pony]

We lived for 3 months in a paper bag in a septic tank!

[Barry]

We lived for 3 months in a paper bag in a septic tank!

Yes we know - you had to get up three hours before you went to bed, work a twenty five hour day, after which you were thrashed to death by your father.