Anybody Who Dares Whinge About a Horse Holding up the Traffic...

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...if it's someone who goes road running, well, at the moment words fail me, which is probably a flipping good job! :mad::eek::(:confused:

Drove the usual nearly eighty miles home. Pretty good all the way, some nice drivers and only one raving lunatic, so all in all good. Went to go via the yard to check on neds in the field...

Got onto a road and part way down saw a sign for a race. A nice evening for it I thought and slowed down as lots of bends on that road and I didn't want to splatter anyone.

Came to a set of cross-roads and there were two police men and more yellow bibbed bods. They'd closed the flaming road! For twenty minutes we sat there... I was not a happy bunny :mad::eek:. All they had to do was to have put a sign up at the start of the road and I, like many others, would have chosen a different route; annoying, but not a major issue, but oh no, they were out having a nice evening's race, they do it every year, etc. etc. etc. They seemed to think it reasonable to take twenty minutes of peoples lives - and the whinge here is they knew it was going to happen, they could have planned ahead for the other road users.

Flaming ignorant oiks :o:mad::eek::(:confused:. If any of them ever even think about whinging if a horse holds up the traffic....

Sorry, I really do think it's been one of those days :cool:. I'm off to find a vat of hot choccy.
 
Oh dear :( I got outraged just reading that!

;)

But poor you :( I'd be fuming too!

How about some homemade semi-freddo? Dairy milk whole nut, white chocolate and walnuts on top! :D
 
Yep know what you mean, the Idiots never seem to signpost a diversion or a Road Closed until you're actually on it, THEN you have to either wait OR try and find an alternative route, but more commonly you're jammed in a queue of traffic and can do Sweet FA about it.

Come the revolution they'll be the first against the wall I promise you ..... in the meantime a stiff drink and a few vulgar phrases are definitely called for I think!
 
You really haven't had a good day have you?

Are we talking road racers as in cyclists or runners? I'm not sure which I have had more problems with.

Last November when I still had D we got caught up in a running race going down our local bridlepath. If there had been a sign we would have gone another way but we had no idea what we were going to come across. Literally hundreds of cross country runners trying to squeeze past us on the bridlepath. The poor horses I was with could not cope with the swarms of mad folk running them and panicked starting to kick out and buck. Still the mad runners kept coming. I'm just glad I didn't have Lil, 16.1hh of rearing black muscle might have put off even these crazy folk.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that yes we might annoy the odd driver but we really do try not to, always thank people for slowing down and only add seconds to their journey.
 
There is NOTHING more frustrating at the end of a long drive than being held up.

I live in a seaside town, in the west of England. This means I live in a town full of old folk (bless em). But they are not the kindly old souls you think they are...oh no, they have an underground organisation, a well oiled machine designed to cause aggravation to ME.

Every night they are waiting for me, they must spot me on the slip road of the motorway and the spotter then radios the duty 'old fart'. As I get within five minutes normal drive of my home the OF will get me, pulling out from a side turning or appearing on a roundabout. They are sly and wily and their tactics change every night and they are in league with the 'school run mums against....everyone'.

Suddenly the OF is there in front of me, crawling at 20 mph in a 40 limit. Stopping at empty roundabouts or green traffic lights, braking 100 yards ahead of a junction from 15mph down to 3!.

From the Mway to my house is five minutes on a clear road, when the OF or their cohorts in the 'mum's' league strike, it can take twenty.

I hate them oohhhhh how I HATE them.

MrsM you have my utmost sympathy, believe me when I tell you I know EXACTLY how you feel.
 
Thankies thankies :). It was the biped type runners :(

I was the second car... and I'm afraid I got out and went and asked how long it would be and who was the idiot in charge (though I was remarkably restrained and didn't actually say 'idiot', nor did I shout, swear, rant or rave :)). The policeman came over. I made my point about the signs, or rather the lack of them.... The police then said we could start moving - I'm not joking, there were cars backed up in four directions - I think they were starting to get worried about the volume of cars!
 
Oh dear! I can sympathise you on this one! We have a big cycle race in our area every year. It's awful because they block off lots of roads, and appear out of nowhere at speed! We went out for a hack on the day this year and we chose a route across a nearby bridle way which we thought would avoid the race, on the approach to the bridle way, we noticed some cars parked in the entrance and some of the race officials started shouting at us to hurry up as we were in the way and waving their arms around. :eek: Both of our horses spooked with their eyes on stalks and we had to shout at them to stand still! We were told the bridle way was closed for the day as the race was going across it and we were directed a different way. I don't know whether they had permission to block off a public right of way or not but they were very annoying and could have easily caused an accident by scaring the horses. I hate it how some cyclists think they own the roads, we have as much right to be on as them as they do! You've set me off now! :p
 
We dont have many runners but we do seem to get a lot of cyclists, time trials I think as well as some road races. They have their routes marked with little signs on the junctions but the roads are never closed. They either come past in groups of about a dozen or individually every couple of minutes, either way, they are the one thing Che gets a bit upset about, I think its because he cant really hear them until they are almost on his tail, then they whoosh past and make him jump! The nice ones usually call out from a little way back which helps loads but some just dont seem to think. Driving home from the yard last weekend a group of racers had stopped on the side of the road, in a farm entrance actually, dropped all the bikes and several were having a pee in the hedge, didnt seem in the slightest bit bothered they were in full view, yeuck:(
 
Yuck, how charming!

Hm. Just wondering if they'd have shifted a bit quicker if I'd been on the Dizzy one... :D :D :D

This lot held us up for the entire flipping lot to 'run/stagger' past, until I objected, then the police and the yellow tabarded ones started trying to get the cars through.
 
We had about 6000 pass our yardgate at my last yard earlier this year, some official assshooooooolle, gave permission for the run to go through a public park, meaning "everyone" else were "supposed" to put their lives on hold, they also blocked off roads which affected local business's on Fathers day, guess which pony rider still rode out, you should have seen the marshalls face outside our gate when I appeard :D wish I could get him to poo on command :rolleyes:
 
I feel for you and your day out driving today MrsM - first the deer then this!

NeilM that post of yours made me lol, as I have the same here...not a seaside town but very high retired population...straight after the rush hour begins the grey crawl...it's much more painful that being in the rush hour believe me..and if it's not them going so slowly I could run alongside their cars, I'm dodging the mad Mums driving people movers that will take you out in their desperation to get the children to school on time. How I handle the slow slow quick quick slow combo of this lot of drivers of a day I don't know..but you can spot me coming towards you as I'm the one behind the wheel twitching..:D
 
You have my sympathy. My yard is on the route for the London to Brighton bike run.
They close the road for the bikers (ok so they do put signs up) which means if i wanted to go up there for the morning i would have to park about a mile away and walk.:eek: Im far to lazy for this so he is on turn out :D
It has causes some headaches in past years when people have had a show the same day. Trying to get a lorry down a road without squashing loads of bikers is not as easy as it sounds.
 
NeilM that made me laugh. We have loads of OFs round here but they're farmers, usually well into their 80s. They park here on market day, big car, small, bent farmer. When they get out of their cars, they can barely walk. I've seen several who have bumped other cars while parking and they don't even know they've done it. They drive at 10 MPH and hold everyone up and THEN they stop the car in the middle of a road and chat to their old friends!!
 
I just read this and nearly burst laughing! They must have got lost trying to navigate their way to where I live. (Seaside town, West Somerset.) I have seen them lose their way on our Tesco car park before now! Most of the ones we have, for some reason, seem to be very small people with large cars...when I see what appears to be a car with no driver, just a white panama hat perched just above the steering wheel, I keep well back. Have to admit tourists driving at 3mph looking for a street parking space (and then having 15 attempts to get a 12ft car into an 11ft space) are almost as frustrating.
 
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