5 September (Part 2) - If you see YD65 OKO, steer well clear. Foul mouthed lunatic at the wheel
I am old enough to remember times when one might go for a drive as recreation. I have a picture somewhere
(added 9th September) of a family picnic on the grass verge of the A4 next to Silbury Hill in
Wiltshire with the road stretching into the distance. There is not a car to
be seen apart from my father’s parked by the kerb.
An open road with petrol at 4/11d a gallon (five pence a litre), those were the days. Today’s
are best avoided and if you can’t avoid them best take things calmly and don’t
try to be in too much of a hurry.
Tempting fate but in 54 years of driving I’ve not managed to hit anything yet, nor get done for
speeding or parking but idiots are all around. At the end of Abbey Road last
Thursday I got stuck behind someone waiting to turn right into Wilton Road. It
gets jammed up with cars waiting for late running trains and there is not a lot
one can do about it. I, or maybe it was the fellow waiting to turn right, got a
long blast on the horn from an idiot in a Smart car behind me. When we started
moving again it roared past me and across the Knee Hill roundabout with no
consideration for those already on the roundabout.
Something similar happened again today.
A Mercedes YD65 OKO was stuck behind someone stopped to let another driver emerge from
Abbey Wood Road opposite as any considerate driver might do. Within seconds he
got a long blast on the horn even though it was obvious to all why he had stopped.
Possibly it was an unwise thing to do but the driver got out to ask what the
Mercedes driver thought she was doing. It was a polite enough question delivered
in moderate tones.
His reward was a torrent of four lettered abuse from the female driver of the car
behind. Even as the driver in the red T shirt returned to his car the foul
mouthed female tried to squeeze by as you can see from the angle of her wheels
in Photo 4.
What I would like to know is how a woman as foul mouthed as the driver of YD65 OKO
can hold down a job that pays enough to buy a car like that. I know
nothing about cars but it looks expensive to me.
Well I suppose there are a couple of jobs someone might do that pays enough and
demands very little intellect in return. Apart from being the Chief Executive of
Bexley Council that is.
Click any image to enlarge.
Note: Old photos. A picnic by the side of the A4 road long
before the Motorway was built. The photographer (me) could stand in the middle
of the road to take his picture, then climb Silbury Hill to look down on an
almost empty road.