A New Front in the Buggy Wars

[davidgillon]

There's a kerb-cut on my way from the high street to where I normally park that's a nightmare*. It's set diagonally on the corner going across a slope, and rather than the standard two side-slopes fairing into a central flat one, there's just the two side slopes meeting in the middle. The best way to handle it is to wheel onto the right-hand slope, which is closest to the line of the slope, and just barely safe - you can feel the chair wanting to tip backwards, then turn to go up the left-hand slope at 90 degrees, which puts you closest to going cross slope. Or if you can get a good line, just cut across the right slope at a continuous angle and up onto the left.

So I got there today and there was a guy standing on the left hand slope, I think trying to decide which way to go. As soon as he spotted me he said "Oh, sorry," and stepped out of the way. But that did mean I'd stopped and had to wheel onto the right hand slope then turn. Just as I'm about to turn, a woman with a buggy wheels blithely down the right hand side. Seriously? I mean, she may not have known I was about to turn, but kerb-cuts are barely wide enough for a chair to start with, is waiting 10s really so unreasonable?

*I'd call it the worst I've ever seen, except there's one a hundred yards away that's so bad I don't even dare try it, despite it being on the flat - it's humped _UP_ in the middle.