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postieboy Oct 2018 12:27pm, 24 Oct 2018 5,479 posts	0 postieboy Households that leave a rotting pumpkin(s) on their doorstep until after Christmas gets my goat. I have to smell it every day delivering their mail!
Markymarkmark Oct 2018 12:56pm, 24 Oct 2018 7,588 posts	0 Markymarkmark [The smell of scorching turnip is deeply evocative of my childhood. And yes, they're hard. I aspired to a swede one day because they were bigger. As an older teen I did one hollow out a (fairly fat) carrot too. Very fiddly! I think it was before pumpkins had been invented. :-)]
Carpathius Oct 2018 4:04pm, 24 Oct 2018 15,594 posts	0 Carpathius Trying to cycle over this; I think my spine's coming through the top of my head.
Carpathius Oct 2018 4:05pm, 24 Oct 2018 15,595 posts	0 Carpathius P.S. the whole road is like that, not just one bit, and surrounding roads nearly as bad.
Rosehip Oct 2018 5:08pm, 24 Oct 2018 11,085 posts	0 Rosehip [ I must have posted this somewhere on here before, we used to carve Mangelwurzels - they were hard like turnips. No idea where you'd get one these days!]
Jambomo Oct 2018 5:18pm, 24 Oct 2018 6,719 posts	0 Jambomo When people stand at a pedestrian crossing on a really busy road and don't press the ******* button. Does it look like its a decoration? Worse, they stand in the way so I can't easily get over and press the bloody thing!
fetcheveryone Oct 2018 5:22pm, 24 Oct 2018 20,032 posts	0 fetcheveryone Or when they press it on a really quiet road, don't wait for it, and I'm left watching them walk down the opposite pavement oblivious
Markymarkmark Oct 2018 5:27pm, 24 Oct 2018 7,594 posts	0 Markymarkmark [I thought that, Fetch! As a runner, I tend not to press and take my chances unless it's a really busy road. As a granddad (i.e. when accompanied by little people!) I always press and always wait!] People who cross when the red man is on and I'm with my grandchildren (and to a lesser extent, any children are present). I'm trying to instill good behaviour!
Surrey Phil Oct 2018 5:39pm, 24 Oct 2018 2,642 posts	0 Surrey Phil When I press the button at a pedestrian crossing or when calling the lift, it illuminates to show that it has received my request. Why is it then that somebody else will come along and press the same button? The light is already on and I am clearly waiting. Do they think that the traffic lights will change or the lift will come quicker? Either that, or they think that I am not usually allowed out on my own and haven't a clue what to do!
Fragile Do Not Bend Oct 2018 5:56pm, 24 Oct 2018 3,551 posts	0 Fragile Do Not Bend [My husband never presses those buttons, he insists they don’t do anything.]