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Feb 2013
4:30pm, 4 Feb 2013
7,358 posts
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Caterpillar
People who use the car to travel insanely short distances.
There is a woman round our way who has a seriously massive fcuk-off big black four by four HSE Sport Overfinch Turbo, who delivers her able-bodied husband to the station three hundred yards away. She has a personalised number plate and she barges her way up to the closest spot to the station, causing maximum congestion and then queues up all the way home again.
There are people who drive to the postbox at the end of their road to post letters.
There are people who drive to Bushy parkrun, whose warm-up run is further than the distance from their front door.
Please tell me you don't drive anywhere less than two miles as a rule.
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Feb 2013
4:35pm, 4 Feb 2013
23,941 posts
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Velociraptor
I sometimes drive anywhere less than two miles. Lugging all the stuff I have to lug on house calls for two miles there and back and arriving looking like a drowned rat is contrary to the spirit of the partnership agreement.
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Feb 2013
4:38pm, 4 Feb 2013
7,359 posts
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Caterpillar
Yeah, but as a general rule ..... surely you wouldn't? Not that I have actually measured the minimum distance I would decide to drive if I had the possibility not to.
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Feb 2013
4:41pm, 4 Feb 2013
23,943 posts
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Velociraptor
Dunno. Depends. Not normally. But I *have* driven the girls the mile-and-a-bit to the railway station when it's been raining, and if I had a load of shopping to get and a supermarket that was on the edge of being two miles away I might not walk, and ... yes, I can see times when I would. But not for errands like posting a letter or going to the local shops or the gym.
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Feb 2013
4:44pm, 4 Feb 2013
2,694 posts
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Duchess
Like V'rap it depends how much I've got to carry, how quickly I need to get there, if it's somewhere I want to be on foot, if its suitable for pedestrians, etc ... Two miles from my home in daylight is mostly okay, two miles from my parents' at night would be suicidal.
Kids who *have* to be driven to within 20 yards of the school gate however....
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Feb 2013
4:46pm, 4 Feb 2013
1,509 posts
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Wobbling
It depends Caterpillar - we're about a mile and a half from town and two miles from the station. I'll drive in to town if I have a lot of bits to collect, or I'm in a hurry or I'm going on somewhere afterwards.
Our last home was less than a mile to both train station and town. Again, I only drove to town if I had lots of shopping to do. I only drove to the station to pick up MrW if I was already out and about, or it was late.
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Feb 2013
4:47pm, 4 Feb 2013
7,360 posts
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Caterpillar
Yes I am not going to try to define a rule about it, but you get the drift. People who push out of their electrically-gated driveway in the Range Rover, into the stationary traffic and sit there adding to the pollution and massive jam of traffic that inches forwards when somebody actually gets through the gridlocked traffic lights at the end of the road. One hundred yards up the road, and ten minutes later, they indicate right and drive into their friend's house for coffee.
Would have been nine minutes quicker to walk.
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Feb 2013
6:50pm, 4 Feb 2013
3,111 posts
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heebiejeebie
I drive the two miles to work and back. If it's any consolation, I feel guilty about it 
Too much to carry, need to arrive dry and unwindswept etc
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Feb 2013
7:09pm, 4 Feb 2013
23,953 posts
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Velociraptor
The amount of inconvenience I am currently suffering as the result of the discontinuation of Diprosalic and Polytar preparations and the temporary unavailability of generic trazodone.
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Feb 2013
7:17pm, 4 Feb 2013
8,769 posts
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James1982a
I'm nearly out of Trazadone. I'm owed a load by the pharmacy.
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