14 June 2005 @ 07:01 pm
Two hours  
To the guy driving the dark blue Volvo who was being an arse by not letting people (ie me) out on the sliproad at the Clyde Tunnel - it's arseholes like you who cause traffic jams in the first place!!!

(translation - there was an accident on the road to the tunnel just at 5pm so traffic was backed up almost to Edinburgh (okay - slight exaggeration but when you're sitting in it and it's just not moving it definitely feels like!) People were stuck on the sliproad from the Clydeside Expressway and were merging with the traffic coming up off Dumbarton Road. Except this one arse (and others like him) refused to let anyone merge. He was driving so close to the car in front of him that he's bloody lucky he didn't run into her!)

Basically, I've been sitting in my car for two hours. Barely moving. And then I get to the village before mine and there's a bunch of idiots blocking the road to pick up their little darlings from the school from footie practice. I swear the car that pulled out in front of me went maybe one hundred yards down the road before turning into their driveway.

A hundred yards. Yeah, so it's raining but it's not a freaking monsoon for crying out loud! I'm sure little Tarquin would have coped with a little bit of rain!! (I have no idea what the kid's name was, the way his mother was driving it felt like she'd call her kid Tarquin...)

So yeah, I'm pissed off and hungry now. Felt like I had to share...

[livejournal.com profile] emeraldswan - I saw your email, I'll take a look once I've had something to eat and send it back to you asap!
 
 
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[identity profile] velvetwhip.livejournal.com on June 14th, 2005 11:04 am (UTC)
I well remember traffic jams from my years in California! You have all my sympathy!


Gabrielle
[identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com on June 14th, 2005 11:15 am (UTC)
The jam I was stuck in actually made the top story in the BBC traffic reports. Since it's really rare for Scottish roads to get mentioned in the reports making the headline is a big deal.

I'm so... annoyed with it just now!
[identity profile] velvetwhip.livejournal.com on June 14th, 2005 11:19 am (UTC)
Yikes! That is awful! I can easily understand your annoyance!


Gabrielle
[identity profile] emeraldswan.livejournal.com on June 14th, 2005 11:56 am (UTC)
It's cool. Take whatever time you need. :)

Um ... not to downplay your frustrating experience, 'cause I'd be ticked off as well, but what in the hell is footsie? I'm thinking that what I think is the definition of that word compared what you think is so not the same thing, because kids do not need to practice that here. (And if they do in Scotland, then I think American kids are missing out, 'cause that'd be one heck of a cool after-school activity...)
[identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com on June 14th, 2005 11:59 am (UTC)
Ha! Footie. Not Footsie.

It's slang for football. (And I mean football - as in soccer)

*g*
[identity profile] emeraldswan.livejournal.com on June 14th, 2005 12:04 pm (UTC)
Okay. That is so much better. Though I still think footsie would be kinda fun as a school sport...

And I actually know the difference between football and ... well, football. Though really, American football (I'm going to get shot for saying this) sucks. It's a poor imitation of rugby, which I love.

Downloaded a new Jamie Cullum song. These Are the Days. I think I'm gonna like him a lot. :)