‘Yes, this road can get really busy at this time of day,’ I heard myself saying the other day, before I could stop myself. A friend was giving me a lift home and had just had to pull in to let the fourth car pass in as many miles. I mean, really.
‘You don’t believe when you move here that you’ll ever complain about the Bigtown traffic, but you will,’ someone warned me last year. I pooh-poohed it at the time. Not any more. I’ll be moaning about the lack of parking next.
February 27, 2009 at 9:23 pm |
Don’t worry. You’re just going native.
February 28, 2009 at 5:48 am |
You will, quite rightly, be moaning about the horrendous price of parking next, though Scotland was so much cheaper than England.
February 28, 2009 at 7:13 am |
But surely Bigtown has the advantage of roads with 2 lanes negating the need to pull over every time another car is seen
February 28, 2009 at 9:30 am |
Karl – I hope not, because then I’ll start driving everywhere
Wendy – it’s worse than that – the parking’s free, and still they complain
Dom – this was outside Bigtown, in the land of single track roads with passing places (where, to be fair to me, even one oncoming car is a pain)
March 1, 2009 at 7:36 pm |
That’s the best thing about the sticks – just wait until you hit the least car-friendly place on Earth (Edinburgh) – then you really really appreciate your rural idyll – although to annoy those doon sooth it’s still possible to park within a mile of the city centre for free!
March 1, 2009 at 7:40 pm |
what, less car friendly than London? I find that hard to believe…