Even in the US its very difficult to get served in a drive thru on a push bike as most of the fast food venues insurance companies will not cover such a situation.
Its a shame but if you aren't in a motor vehicle then you shouldn't be using the drive thru.
It appears that many of the big companies that have made huge profits under Labour's mis-rule are very keen to help her.....Perhaps this is the price they have to pay to be left alone by Nanny.....Thirteen pieces of silver anyone?
But surely Nanny can force McD's to allow cyclists - after all, they are helping to reduce CO2, which is THE most important thing to consider now. Or so we are told......
The problem is, there are a lot of scary people on the roads with woeful levels of awareness of what's happening around them. And to make matters worse, they seem to assume others suffer from the same basic lack of spacial awareness.
I found myself in a roadside debate last Saturday with some woman driver discussing the great danger I'd been in on my bicycle. 'If this had happened, and that had happened, and a car had come round the corner, you could have been killed!' she said. I told her I could have been hit by a piece of space junk as well – the world is just a dangerous place. But no, she wasn't convinced.
She seemed to think that whether we live or die on the roads depends mostly on good luck, a wing and a prayer, and how much the State has intervened to save us from ourselves.
Whereas, when you've been a cyclist for a while you eventually develop a sharp 360-degree sense of awareness. There was no point in telling her I'd seen her coming a long way off and deduced the need to give her a wide berth, or that I tend not to ride round blind bends on the wrong side of the road with my eyes closed, praying that nothing will come the other way.
So I had to pamper her a bit otherwise she looked the type who might start a campaign to force the council into spending vast sums of money installing Dutch-style traffic lights to protect cyclists from motorists.
Funny - I went to a mc'd driver through once (5 years ago?) with some drunk passengers who got out and walked through in front of my car! No problems getting served there as pedestrians
Even in the US its very difficult to get served in a drive thru on a push bike as most of the fast food venues insurance companies will not cover such a situation.
ReplyDeleteIts a shame but if you aren't in a motor vehicle then you shouldn't be using the drive thru.
It appears that many of the big companies that have made huge profits under Labour's mis-rule are very keen to help her.....Perhaps this is the price they have to pay to be left alone by Nanny.....Thirteen pieces of silver anyone?
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ReplyDelete"Its a shame but if you aren't in a motor vehicle then you shouldn't be using the drive thru."
In terms of being hit by a car, what's the difference between a pedal cycle and a motorcycle, the latter being a motor vehicle?
Purely theoretical question of course as there's no way I'd buy anything from MuckyD.
But surely Nanny can force McD's to allow cyclists - after all, they are helping to reduce CO2, which is THE most important thing to consider now. Or so we are told......
ReplyDeleteThe problem is, there are a lot of scary people on the roads with woeful levels of awareness of what's happening around them. And to make matters worse, they seem to assume others suffer from the same basic lack of spacial awareness.
ReplyDeleteI found myself in a roadside debate last Saturday with some woman driver discussing the great danger I'd been in on my bicycle. 'If this had happened, and that had happened, and a car had come round the corner, you could have been killed!' she said. I told her I could have been hit by a piece of space junk as well – the world is just a dangerous place. But no, she wasn't convinced.
She seemed to think that whether we live or die on the roads depends mostly on good luck, a wing and a prayer, and how much the State has intervened to save us from ourselves.
Whereas, when you've been a cyclist for a while you eventually develop a sharp 360-degree sense of awareness. There was no point in telling her I'd seen her coming a long way off and deduced the need to give her a wide berth, or that I tend not to ride round blind bends on the wrong side of the road with my eyes closed, praying that nothing will come the other way.
So I had to pamper her a bit otherwise she looked the type who might start a campaign to force the council into spending vast sums of money installing Dutch-style traffic lights to protect cyclists from motorists.
Funny - I went to a mc'd driver through once (5 years ago?) with some drunk passengers who got out and walked through in front of my car! No problems getting served there as pedestrians
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