Let's talk about drivers who wash their windscreen - while you're behind them

**Mike.Gayner** · 25th December 2013, 16:40

Fuck, people will whinge about anything, wont they?

**tigertim20** · 25th December 2013, 17:19

if this is all you have to complain about, you must have had a great day

**oneblackflag** · 25th December 2013, 17:30

Originally Posted by Mike.Gayner

Fuck, people will whinge about anything, wont they?

Have a whinge about it...

**ducatilover** · 25th December 2013, 19:42

Originally Posted by Mike.Gayner

Fuck, people will whinge about anything, wont they?

KB, the home of leaking vaginas.

**F5 Dave** · 25th December 2013, 20:58

Originally Posted by pisTamunno

Just a curtesy thing to look behind, all is good on a full helmet but flip up make for a nice drink of windows washer. .

Might save their life. People who ride around with a hinge helmet open are considerably risking a broken neck.

**Mushu** · 25th December 2013, 21:31

I actually agree, although not strongly enough to start a thread about it.
Only when they're already facing into the sun though, just because the water reduces your ability to see through the glare, if they had done it earlier (like when they know they are about to head toward the sun with a dirty windscreen) it would have been much safer and only requires about 30 seconds of forethought.
People who leave the jets way out of adjustment kind of annoy me if I cop a lot of water but only if I'm wearing my leather jacket as its not waterproof at all.

But really, I tend to just mutter asshole or something similar under my breath and go on with my life, I wouldn't usually care enough to whinge about it over the internet though.

**G4L4XY** · 25th December 2013, 21:38

I must admit when they throw their ciggy butts out the window and the sparks fly everywhere, thats a lil offensive, I mean cars have a god damn ashtray use the f'ing thing!

**scumdog** · 26th December 2013, 08:52

Originally Posted by Mushu

People who leave the jets way out of adjustment kind of annoy me if I cop a lot of water but only if I'm wearing my leather jacket as its not waterproof at all.

Is your jacket made of blotting paper??

Or do these window washers you speak of pump out 45 gallons a minute or something??

**EJK** · 26th December 2013, 09:12

God, I miss thread tags

**FJRider** · 26th December 2013, 11:45

Originally Posted by rastuscat

I'm a really helpful Popo.

Coz I ride a motorbike patrol vehicle Im in touch with the environment. If I see someone cast a cigarette butt out the window I pick ut up, ride up next to them and say "Hi, you dropped this" and throw it back in their window.

Haven't had a complaint yet but it's only a matter of time.

Should anybody does complain ... remind them of the penalty for "depositing dangerous litter" ....

**FJRider** · 26th December 2013, 11:47

Originally Posted by scumdog

Is your jacket made of blotting paper??

Or do these window washers you speak of pump out 45 gallons a minute or something??

He's allergic to water maybe ...

**Mushu** · 26th December 2013, 12:09

Originally Posted by scumdog

Is your jacket made of blotting paper??

Or do these window washers you speak of pump out 45 gallons a minute or something??

Have you never gotten water down the neck our up the sleeves of a jacket? Not really that fun, unless it's a warm day.

**ellipsis** · 26th December 2013, 12:13

...it's raining and my roof is wet and the grass is wet and a little bit of my verandah is wet...who do I complain to...obviously not god...far to busy a time of year for him, what with a third of him having a birthday and shit like that...Jim Hickey I suppose...anyone got an email address for him...

**vifferman** · 26th December 2013, 15:22

Look, it's just typical of the way most people drive their vehicles: with very little thought given to what they're doing, totally unaware of what's going on around them, and generally not taking it seriously. So many of them (especially when commuting) are too busy sending txt msgs, playing with their genitals (or those of their passenger's), or acting like they're sitting in their lounge. Don't be surprised if they're inconsiderate, miss potential dangers, run red lights, or otherwise give driving less than 100% of their attention.
The "windscreen washer spray on the helmet" thing happens to me not infrequently, as our road is sort of north-easterly oriented, and when they get near the end it turns more easterly, so in the morning the dopey fuckers with dirty windscreens suddenly go, "Oh fark! Where's the road gone?!?" and hit the washers. If I'm behind one of these brain-dead tools, I tootle them melodiously (well... more like discordantly) with the three (3) horning apparatuseses, and they usually go, "Oh - me sorree!!" and stop watering me. (But unlike Dog#2, they don't roll over on their backs, exposing their tender and fluffy underbelly, more's the pity...)
Hey - I'm not a bleater

(...um, yes I am

), but I am very situationally aware of my surroundings, and my car/bike/someone else's car/bike is not a mobile snoozerama. And my helmet's not equipped with wipers, so an unexpected sprinkling of secondhand windscreen crap+fluid is not appreciated, no sirree. (/rantything)