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Originally Posted by Heorot
Bloody joggers. I was in the empty right hand lane approaching a roundabout to go straight ahead and there was a queue of cars in the left hand lane waiting to go left. Just as I drew level with front car, 3 joggers suddenly appeared from my left and one ended up draped over the bonnet of the car as I hit the brakes. They had seen the stopped car to my left and had just run straight across the front of it. Fortunately, no damage to the car or the idiots.
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I get this a lot - not just joggers but "normal" pedestrians too - often at traffic light controlled crossings (but equally often just "near" them) with queuing traffic, with headphones on, or staring at phone, or both, or even neither but in their own world anyway.
Too impatient to wait for the green man, too stupid to look out for non-car traffic, too self-righteous to apologise, and have the cheek to look completely shocked when they get beeped/revved/shouted at.
Bring back the Green Cross Code.
Now this gripe is gonna go on a bit, lol.
We had walkmans in my youth. I had one, but my Dad advised that he didn't want me walking around with headphones in on my own in public, because it makes you dangerously unaware. Could get mugged, run over, anything. I was a bit annoyed, other people did it (it was the 80s) but on reflection I thought he was probably right so I followed his advice.
I pass on the same sage wisdom to my kid now. Get completely ignored.