burtthebike said the following on 22/11/2007 23:55:
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"Ekul Namsob" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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On holiday in Fort William a few years ago, I walked off to the campsite shop to buy ice creams. As I set off, the chap in the neighbouring tent got into his car. I arrived at the shop just as the driver was coming out, carrying three ice creams.
Wot! didn't the fat bas*tard buy any icecreams for anyone else?!
I regularly go camping (including the Glen Nevis campsite near Fort William). None of these campsites are particularly large, but it always amazes me how many people drive around them rather than walk. But then again, it amazes me how many people apparently sit outside their caravans or tents all day doing absolutely nothing, with all that beautiful scenery out there!
But then again, it amazes me how many people apparently sit outside their caravans or tents all day doing absolutely nothing, with all that beautiful scenery out there!
There is, of course, a (suprisingly large) number of people for whom the whole point of going on holiday is to do absolutely nothing... They probably wonder why you would come on holiday and then spend your days cycling miles and walking up & down hills... After all, you can see beautiful scenery without even leaving the campsite!
[email hidden] said the following on 23/11/2007 09:11:
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There is, of course, a (suprisingly large) number of people for whom the whole point of going on holiday is to do absolutely nothing...
Nowt so strange as folk! It just seems odd to me that most of us spend all our time working so that we don't have time to do anything else, and when we do have time to ourselves, some people use that valuable time to do... absolutely nothing!
David Martin said the following on 21/11/2007 09:30:
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Did they include driving 100m to the corner shop instead of walking / cycling?
If you go to any modern out of town regional shopping centre, you will usually find some feature, about half way down, which prevents you from seeing from one end of the shops to the other
It has been found that without this, people tend to decide that they will not walk al the way down, but will go back to their car, and drive round the building.
Having got into the car, they will then decide it isn't worth it to visit the other end, so they go home instead, thus failing to buy as much stuff as the shopping centre wants them to
David Martin said the following on 21/11/2007 09:30:
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Did they include driving 100m to the corner shop instead of walking / cycling?
I always thought that was one of these urban myths - I mean, people wouldn't really do that, would they?
Sorry for replying to an old thread, but:
This evening whilst walking coming home, I turned the corner to see a woman maneuvering here car out of a parking space, drive 9 car lengths (25ish meters) up the road, and park into a second tight parking space. In the time she took to do this, I covered at least three times the distance on foot (the right one), and she still had not finished parking when I lost sight of her.
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Sorry for replying to an old thread, but:
This evening whilst walking coming home, I turned the corner to see a woman maneuvering here car out of a parking space, drive 9 car lengths (25ish meters) up the road, and park into a second tight parking space. In the time she took to do this, I covered at least three times the distance on foot (the right one), and she still had not finished parking when I lost sight of her.
Maybe she waa moving it to a parking space outside her house which was occupied when she parked earlier.
David Martin said the following on 21/11/2007 09:30:
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Did they include driving 100m to the corner shop instead of walking / cycling?
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I always thought that was one of these urban myths - I mean, people wouldn't really do that, would they?
Sorry for replying to an old thread, but:
This evening whilst walking coming home, I turned the corner to see a woman maneuvering here car out of a parking space, drive 9 car lengths (25ish meters) up the road, and park into a second tight parking space. In the time she took to do this, I covered at least three times the distance on foot (the right one), and she still had not finished parking when I lost sight of her.
I don't know about the UK but I know at least one woman in the Detroit suburbs who usually uses the car to go from her house to her friend's house (3 doors ~ 300 ft) down the street.
I don't know about the UK but I know at least one woman in the Detroit suburbs who usually uses the car to go from her house to her friend's house (3 doors ~ 300 ft) down the street.
Three doors is extreme, agreed, but I was struck by how limited pedestrian facilities are in *some parts* of the States. It can be pretty difficult to walk around when there is no space provided to do so- you repeatedly hit bottlenecks where walls, fences and other obstacles abut the road.
Three doors is extreme, agreed, but I was struck by how limited pedestrian facilities are in *some parts* of the States. It can be pretty difficult to walk around when there is no space provided to do so- you repeatedly hit bottlenecks where walls, fences and other obstacles abut the road.
'tis true. I worked in Nashville for a while and stayed in a hotel next door to the office. There was no way to walk between the two unless you were prepared to stagger along a 45 degree muddy embankment next to the road. More recently I came across something similar in the UK trying to walk about 1/2 Km from an office to a hotel near Heathrow.
