FabSwingers.com forum: Zebra Crossings

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Ok.

So, as a high mileage driver I spend a long time on the road - think of me as a Ginger Mad Max. (The descriptor 'Ginger' should ALWAYS be capitalised to denote a person of superior genes - otherwise I might be confused with someone that's figging)(Google 'figging porn', I dare you!)

There comes a time when I am forced to stop at zebra crossings to let people across the road. No problems there.

But.....

It kind of tickles me that people give some half arsed 'thankyou' wave as they cross - usually looking as guilty as Rolf at the school gates. I mean, frankly I only stopped because I am duty bound to.

Don't thank me, get on with crossing! If there weren't stripy lines I'd have run you down by now!

And so my question for the weekend.

Are you a waver, or a walker? If you wave, why do you do it?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm a waver I'm afraid.. I'm just a polite person and think it's nice to acknowledge the person who has stopped.. even if it was bound by legality

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm a waver or a walker...it depends on the situation.

If someone stops when others have just driven on, I wave a thank you. When they stop early, because they know I'm about to cross, I wave a thank you. Those types of situations get a thanks.

If I can tell the person only stopped because they otherwise would have hit me, I don't wave. I just walk.

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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago

Bristol

Fuck waving. I have been run over on a designated crossing before now by someone not paying attention so I refuse to thank drivers for having the common decency and law abiding nature to not hurt me this time. They stop, I cross the road briskly and without dawdling to acknowledge them. Job done.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Being fully aware pedestrian road users hold primacy I display an air of condescending superiority as I stride out crossing a road basking in the knowledge mine was the right to command the traffic to stop......

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I'm a waver or a walker...it depends on the situation.

If someone stops when others have just driven on, I wave a thank you. When they stop early, because they know I'm about to cross, I wave a thank you. Those types of situations get a thanks.

If I can tell the person only stopped because they otherwise would have hit me, I don't wave. I just walk. "

This. We get a lot of folk who just drive straight on and act as though they didn't see you.

Makes me so cross.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Being fully aware pedestrian road users hold primacy I display an air of condescending superiority as I stride out crossing a road basking in the knowledge mine was the right to command the traffic to stop......

Condescending superiority is the manner in which I live most of my life.

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

I'm a waver on most occasions and do so out of common courtesy and lets be honest a simple wave is hardly going to delay my crossing of the road at all is it?

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By *oward1978Man
over a year ago

Rotherham

"Makes me so cross."

Genius line

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

im a waver

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Condescending superiority is the manner in which I live most of my life.

Absolutely....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

or maybe just a bit of a nodder sometimes

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By *andJCouple
over a year ago

fun town

Do you say thank you to other drivers who stop and let you pass parked cars, obstructions on their side etc ?

Annoying when people don't say thank you but again if the obstructions on my side I have to let them pass.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No I'm a walker.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'd stop mid-crossing. Get eye contact, smile, wave, and then say thank you.

Why? Because I know it'd piss the driver off at being held up for 5 seconds. Those are such important seconds that shouldn't be lost. There's nothing more important in the world going on than those 5 lost seconds.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i don't wave, don't see any reason to thank them for doing what they are supposed to do...and if i see they are tapping on their steering wheels in an irritated manner, i will slow down to a snails pace...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i like to stop on the zebra crossing and get down on all fours and pretend like i've lost a contact lens, stay there for maybe a couple of mins, i find drivers like a bit of impromptu theatre and it's my way of thanking them for driving as they're supposed to

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If you take the time to read the highway code,

you will see that the only group who actually have RIGHT OF WAY on the roads are pedestrians, hence the give way on Entering a new road,

so i think you should be waving thank you to them, and be thankful that when your kids or wife or Mother crosses the road they do not meet someone with the same attitude as you.

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By *s_macWoman
over a year ago

Traffic land

I'd always raise a hand or nod in acknowledgement, no pausing, just being polite. My six year old does it now too

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

I wave if I feel like it, walk if I don't.

having just come back from SE Asia I now really appreciate anyone stopping for me to use a zebra crossing as, although they have them there, they are more of a target to the motorists there. They won't hit you, as long as you stride across confidently, they just don't notice the crossing. It was startling to put it mildly.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm a waiver, but I'm cautious stepping out if traffic hasn't stopped. My aunt got run over once on a crossing so I know not all drivers are are observant of road regulations.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It seems opinions are pretty black and white in this.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm a walker

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By *oward1978Man
over a year ago

Rotherham

I usually give a little wave just to say thanks for stopping. Not sure why really, seeing as the law says they should stop anyway! A bit weird really.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's pretty rare that anyone stops at zebra crossings usually, so I'm a waver, or I at least smile.

If it's the other way round, I'd be grateful for a little acknowledgment.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The main problem I have is people just stepping right out, as in as they approach the crossing the only notice you get is that they suddenly turn and start walking without even looking.

People are supposed to stop look and wait for the car to stop before crossing the road but many do not and you end up jamming on the brakes

Also you get the clown who crosses on the diagonal just before the crossing and the others who seem to think that the crossing extends 10 foot from the actual crossing.

On the road a lot! You can tell can't you

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I walk across, stop in the middle and wave frantically for at least two minutes and then carry on.

Because I'm nice like that

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Waver, it costs me nothing to be polite.

Manners are highly underrated nowadays

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Wave because Im polite.

I hate when you let someone out on a busy crossing and they don't wave. Even when I have right of way I still wave!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I walk across, stop in the middle and wave frantically for at least two minutes and then carry on.

Because I'm nice like that

Longer than my 5 seconds, but how very thoughtful of you.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nod and smile manners cost nothing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Some times just too irritate aggressive motorists heading in both directions I've perfected a nonchalant saunter that includes a momentary hesitancy consistent of dithering ....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Some times just too irritate aggressive motorists heading in both directions I've perfected a nonchalant saunter that includes a momentary hesitancy consistent of dithering ....

I can see you throwing in some twirls and flounces as well.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Some times just too irritate aggressive motorists heading in both directions I've perfected a nonchalant saunter that includes a momentary hesitancy consistent of dithering ....

I can see you throwing in some twirls and flounces as well. "

I always finish off with a slapstick trip just as I hear their engines pick up revs .....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Strange that,especially when kids an old people and d*unks cross without looking

There again i was always told that i should be scanning the sides of the road for hazards especially in a built up area .

Strange the way they put crossing in built up area,s

And i drive all over the country Delivering Defensive Driver Training,

One of the guys I work with, who was an ex traffic officer told me he had to tell a someone there 15 year old daughter was in Hospital with serious head injuries, because someone got fed up waiting at a crossing and drove around a car as she was crossing..she survived but was left in a wheelchair and with severe brain damage .

really amusing.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not a waver, but a big fan of making disconcerting eye contact with the driver...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm a double waver to each side although if I'm feeling spontaneous I'll sometimes gallop across the crossing like I'm riding a horse and do the queens infamous hand gesture. Even been known to get on all fours and crawl across like a dog. You can make a day of it!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm a walker. I don't even look to see if it's clear. The zebra crossing is my right of way, I just step on it.

When I'm driving tho, people who fucking dither about on zebra crossings piss me right off.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I wave. It's polite and I know a lot of drivers will have hated having to apply their brakes, and waste a few seconds of their precious lives, waiting for people who walk to cross their road.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Ok.

There comes a time when I am forced to stop at zebra crossings to let people across the road. No problems there.

But.....

Don't thank me, get on with crossing! If there weren't stripy lines I'd have run you down by now!

And so my question for the weekend.

Are you a waver, or a walker? If you wave, why do you do it?"

It's called common courtesy. Do you say thank you to the person serving you a beer at the pub? If so, why? They had no choice but to serve you.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I always say thank you, especially since I recently had to pull someone out of the way recently from a muppet driver who was on the outside of two lanes and not seeing the one stopped on inside nearly ran us all over.

And I've dared to watch figging porn too.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've had so many near mises from idiots when i was on the bike i found at one point i was subconsciously doing s thank you wave to people who stopped at give ways and didnt pull out on me

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By *mmmMaybeCouple
over a year ago

West Wales

That's cool, but one day you'll fuck up & be right but you could also be dead

Trust me on that one..

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