They are renewing the drains along one of the local roads, everyone knows about it, it has been in the papers and everything. The diversion for the last week has been up our road, turning a quiet residential road with cars parked here and there both sides into a rat run.
Last weekend, signs went up saying that the top of the road was to be closed for six weeks, starting today, and the new diversion signs go back miles.
So, today when I got home from work, there was a row of bollards right across the end of my road with a ROAD CLOSED sigh right in the middle, but as well as me, there were three other cars that turned into my road, and from the way the woman in the car behind was hugging my bumper, she was in a hurry.
I indicated, and pulled up outside my house and with much revving and any number of dirty looks the women behind me shot past and off up my (30 mph limit) road at high speed. At this point I thought ' hello, someone didn't read the sign, or take any notice of all those cones'. Sure enough, a few minutes later, as I was still getting all the gubbins out of my car, Ms Angrydriver comes shooting back down the road, at which point I burst out laughing, which was really bound to improve her mood.
Anyway, I went in for a coffee, and my wife and I then watched probably the best part of 100 cars whizz up..... and then back down the road. The time delay between up and down was more than I would have thought, so I took a bike for a test ride the half mile to the top of my road and all became clear.
Despite having driven through a small gap in a row of cones and a large red ROAD CLOSED sign, all of these clowns were getting to the junction with the main road to be confronted with another ROAD CLOSED sign, a row of fencing and a fcuk off great digger, so what were they all doing? Yes, they were making a right turn into a cul de sac... which they were then discovering was a cul de sac and having to turn round and make their way past the 20 other idiots who had driven through the same row of cones and past the same large red sign with ROAD CLOSED on it, which apparently they could not see or read.
This parade of illeterates continued for the next couple of hours and when my son got home from work, he experienced much the same as me, with much the same reaction (like father like son).
It has all gone quiet now, but the school run tomorrow morning will be a hoot, I can hardly wait.
You'd think the row of cones across the road and the big red REOAD CLOSED sign would have given the game away, but apparently they can read text messages on their phones while on the move but not a big red sign with ROAD CLOSED on it.
Last weekend, signs went up saying that the top of the road was to be closed for six weeks, starting today, and the new diversion signs go back miles.
So, today when I got home from work, there was a row of bollards right across the end of my road with a ROAD CLOSED sigh right in the middle, but as well as me, there were three other cars that turned into my road, and from the way the woman in the car behind was hugging my bumper, she was in a hurry.
I indicated, and pulled up outside my house and with much revving and any number of dirty looks the women behind me shot past and off up my (30 mph limit) road at high speed. At this point I thought ' hello, someone didn't read the sign, or take any notice of all those cones'. Sure enough, a few minutes later, as I was still getting all the gubbins out of my car, Ms Angrydriver comes shooting back down the road, at which point I burst out laughing, which was really bound to improve her mood.
Anyway, I went in for a coffee, and my wife and I then watched probably the best part of 100 cars whizz up..... and then back down the road. The time delay between up and down was more than I would have thought, so I took a bike for a test ride the half mile to the top of my road and all became clear.
Despite having driven through a small gap in a row of cones and a large red ROAD CLOSED sign, all of these clowns were getting to the junction with the main road to be confronted with another ROAD CLOSED sign, a row of fencing and a fcuk off great digger, so what were they all doing? Yes, they were making a right turn into a cul de sac... which they were then discovering was a cul de sac and having to turn round and make their way past the 20 other idiots who had driven through the same row of cones and past the same large red sign with ROAD CLOSED on it, which apparently they could not see or read.
This parade of illeterates continued for the next couple of hours and when my son got home from work, he experienced much the same as me, with much the same reaction (like father like son).
It has all gone quiet now, but the school run tomorrow morning will be a hoot, I can hardly wait.
You'd think the row of cones across the road and the big red REOAD CLOSED sign would have given the game away, but apparently they can read text messages on their phones while on the move but not a big red sign with ROAD CLOSED on it.
