Incompetence

Originally Posted by Bibio

so you sat there for 5mins watching some poor old biddy trying to reverse her car and getting frustrated. what was wrong with getting out your car and asking if you could do it for her?

yes she may be incompetent but we all get old.

I was geared up on my bike, and she was blocking my exit from the bike bay.

Driving someone else's car backwards out of a parking lot is something illegal which I do not want to do.

She didn't seem like an idiot, and I don't relate the fault to age, she just severely lacked the skills required. Furthermore, this was just an example to the point I was trying to get across.

Finally- I wasn't frustrated at any point. And even if I had offered and done it for her, she would have carried on driving like nothing was wrong, and to emphasise my point again, bikers are sharing roads with people like this and it could lead to sadder stories.

Originally Posted by Luckypants

With all the single track roads around here

Great example

Originally Posted by pookie

shouldve videoed it and sent it in to those tv funny programmes. Dont supposed she was called tania shaw and drove a 4x4 ?

VERY tempted. But each time it crossed my mind I though "No.. surely this won't go on much longer"

Originally Posted by Bluepete

Yesterday, I turned into a one way street (the right way) on my job bike to find a middle aged lady driving towards me!

Stop traffic, tell her to reverse into a side street, then watch with amazement as she mounted the kerb three times.

Her reasoning for the wrong way shenanigans?

TomTom told me to!

You do not have to say anything but it may... etc etc.

Pete

They say cops don't have sense of humor

There are some people in this world who can't chew gum and walk, the example given the by the OP is another humours example of this...