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Aul fellas walking into traffic in the heat wave

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  • 24-08-2013 11:16pm
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    Pat Mustard
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    During the summer heat wave, I had a few encounters with some space cadet pedestrians. They'd just stroll out into traffic to get across the road. I had to brake and stop the car to let these old coots cross. It happened loads of times in the hot weather. All of these guys were seemingly healthy, robust, white Irish males between 60 and 70 years of age. No old crocks with walking sticks. This seems to have stopped now that the weather has cooled. Anyone else experienced this?


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    Chucken
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    You took your time telling us. I'd nearly forgotten we had heat.


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    Pat Mustard
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    Chucken wrote: »
    You took your time telling us. I'd nearly forgotten we had heat.

    Well, when I saw it first I said to myself: "Is that the new thing, now?". But it's only now that I know that it had to be the heat.


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    red sean
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    Maybe you imagined it. Heat does strange things to your head.


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    The One Who Knocks
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    I concur.


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    Wacker The Attacker
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    Jamez735 wrote: »
    reserved for amazing pun/joke within the next 48 hours


    48 hours. you could write a novel in that time never mind an amazing witty pun. you must be old


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    Chucken
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    Wacker The Attacker wrote: »
    They're old.

    Don't you know that they get to do whatever they want and everyone else just has to accept it. That's what they say.


    Really?


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    Wacker The Attacker
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    Chucken wrote: »
    Really?


    Yes.


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    Chucken
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    The Mustard wrote: »
    Well, when I saw it first I said to myself: "Is that the new thing, now?". But it's only now that I know that it had to be the heat.

    You've never noticed gaggles of school kids wandering into the road like zombies?


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    The One Who Knocks
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    Wacker The Attacker wrote: »
    48 hours. you could write a novel in that time never mind an amazing witty pun


    Well feck u anyway for quoting me!...now I'll never become famous as an AH legend. My lifelong dream ruined.


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    Tombo2001
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    I hadn't noticed it, but now that you've mentioned it I'll keep a closer look out when the next heat wave comes in 2031.

    What age are you yourself OP? I dig your use of the phrase 'old coots' to refer to someone who is 60 years old.

    Liam Neeson for example is 61. Pierce Brosnan is 60, Brendan Gleeson is 58. None of them would be what I'd consider elderly. Or a coot.

    Now that I think about it, when the next heatwave comes, I may be an old coot myself. So might you OP. If you fall out in front of my car, I'll try to swerve in time. I hope you'll do the same for me.


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    Wacker The Attacker
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    Jamez735 wrote: »
    Well feck u anyway for quoting me!...now I'll never become famous as an AH legend. My lifelong dream ruined.

    Not to worry


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    The One Who Knocks
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    Wacker The Attacker wrote: »
    Not to worry

    I guess this is as close as I will ever come


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    Pat Mustard
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    Chucken wrote: »
    You've never noticed gaggles of school kids wandering into the road like zombies?

    I haven't. Generally, they have the good grace to sprint out the way when they see me driving at them. But this aul fella menace has me stumped.


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    The One Who Knocks
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    The Mustard wrote: »
    Generally, they have the good grace to sprint out the way when they see me driving at them.

    Driving at them.....with intention?


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    Tombo2001
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    Jamez735 wrote: »
    Well feck u anyway for quoting me!...now I'll never become famous as an AH legend. My lifelong dream ruined.


    Can you not change the post once you're quoted?

    Now if you put in your 'bleedin deadly pun'....it will have the double effect of winning plaudits for yourself, and making everyone wonder where Wacker got the quote from.


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    The One Who Knocks
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    Tombo2001 wrote: »
    Can you not change the post once you're quoted?

    Now if you put in your 'bleedin deadly pun'....it will have the double effect of winning plaudits for yourself, and making everyone wonder where Wacker got the quote from.

    Never said "bleedin deadly" ..not from inner city Dublin.

    But yes, an ingenius idea.


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    Pat Mustard
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    Tombo2001 wrote: »
    I hadn't noticed it, but now that you've mentioned it I'll keep a closer look out when the next heat wave comes in 2031.

    What age are you yourself OP? I dig your use of the phrase 'old coots' to refer to someone who is 60 years old.

    Liam Neeson for example is 61. Pierce Brosnan is 60, Brendan Gleeson is 58. None of them would be what I'd consider elderly. Or a coot.

    Now that I think about it, when the next heatwave comes, I may be an old coot myself. So might you OP. If you fall out in front of my car, I'll try to swerve in time. I hope you'll do the same for me.

    OK, they weren't elderly. They were physically fit looking gentlemen in late middle age. But blindly walking out into traffic gets 'old coot' muttered under my breath!


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    Chucken
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    The Mustard wrote: »
    OK, they weren't elderly. They were physically fit looking gentlemen in late middle age. But blindly walking out into traffic gets 'old coot' muttered under my breath!

    How many times did this actually happen?

    Were they walking alone or was there a herd of them?

    We may not be dealing with the living here.


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    The One Who Knocks
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    Chucken wrote: »
    How many times did this actually happen?

    Were they walking alone or was there a herd of them?

    We may not be dealing with the living here.

    Don't worry I heard someone swapped the valium for viagra in the old folks home across from Lapello. I'm sure it won't happen again


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    Pat Mustard
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    Chucken wrote: »
    How many times did this actually happen?

    Were they walking alone or was there a herd of them?

    We may not be dealing with the living here.

    Maybe 10 or 15 times during the heatwave. They were always alone and strolling across the road, possibly eating an ice-cream, seemingly unperturbed by cars driving towards them. I didn't beep the horn at them, so I can't say if they would have responded to stronger stimuli than the sound of traffic.


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    red sean
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    Did you not stop and ask the 15th guy why?


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    Pat Mustard
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    red sean wrote: »
    Did you not stop and ask the 15th guy why?

    I'll try that in the New Heat Age of 2031.


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    whirlpool
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    60-70 isn't that old.............

    .....depending on the person.


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    Iwannahurl
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    The Mustard wrote: »
    Maybe 10 or 15 times during the heatwave. They were always alone and strolling across the road, possibly eating an ice-cream, seemingly unperturbed by cars driving towards them. I didn't beep the horn at them, so I can't say if they would have responded to stronger stimuli than the sound of traffic.




    Whereabouts did these incidents occur? Same place on more than one occasion?


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    WilyCoyote
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    Chucken wrote: »
    How many times did this actually happen?

    Were they walking alone or was there a herd of them?

    We may not be dealing with the living here.

    Please Chucken! Not the "Z" word? :eek:


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    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    I rode along with a friend for the day at the start of August in a big rig. He drives an arctic for a local haulage company in my home town. I was amazed how he could control such a machine on ridiculously narrow roads and tight streets.

    The biggest problem for him was idiotic pedestrians walking out in the middle of the road ( Of All Ages). This thing he's driving has big weight behind it, you can't just throw on the brakes. The average strolling joe doesn't seem to respect that. Always give a Lorry the right of way, whether you're walking or driving.


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    Iwannahurl
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    WilyCoyote wrote: »
    Please Chucken! Not the "Z" word? :eek:



    Too late!

    http://zombieresearchsociety.com/archives/18020

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UUUYl0ZVkk


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    Iwannahurl
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    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Always give a Lorry the right of way, whether you're walking or driving.



    Might is right?


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    red sean
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    Maybe they were attending the national convention of "Ice cream licking old coots who don't like Mustard"


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