"Solar Penguin" wrote in message
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A while back I was in a 410 bus, which goes down almost every narrow
back street and cul-de-sac between Crystal Palace and Croydon. On one
of these narrow streets, it met a dustcart coming the other way. There
was no room for the two large vehicles to pass, so they sat there for
about five minutes, each waiting for the other to move out of the way.
Now, the bus had right of way, and the dustcart should have moved. But
its driver was in no hurry. Maybe he even wanted to get delayed so he
could claim overtime. In the end, the bus driver was forced to back up
and allow the dustcart through.

I think you will find that most drivers of large vehicles have a mutual
understanding about what to do in such a situation. The dustcart has a job
to do, and so does the bus. The trouble is that you get someone who is
bloody-minded and decides to try to force his way through. Sounds like it
might have been the bus driver in this case. He probably need not have
driven past the place where he could have waited for the dustcart. On the
other hand he may have had a string of cars behind him, which also had to
back out.

We go down narrow lanes where you are liable to meet farm tractors with
large trailers, dustcarts, white vans, but worst of all cars. The car
drivers are those who can't work out the way to get past an obstacle which
the rest of us can negotiate with comparative ease.
--
Terry Harper, Web Co-ordinator, The Omnibus Society
75th Anniversary 2004, see http://www.omnibussoc.org/75th.htm
E-mail:
URL: http://www.terry.harper.btinternet.co.uk/