Thank you for your lovely response. I admit that no longer living in the city helps. Rural and remote people are a lot more likely to help one another. Not doing so can have really unpleasant outcomes sometimes.
Even using a card for groceries etc doesn't remove the need for cash. What happens to the 'little people if cash goes? The bloke with a small market stall, the family updating a piece of furniture and listing the older one on marketplace etc? Not everyone can, or is happy to give out personal...
I encountered a victim of stupidity in a local shopping centre. A bigger lady, relying on a walking stick, had her r4 wheel drive (which shopping centres rarely cater for) trapped by a mongrel in a much smaller car, parked at an angle. This prevented the poor lady even accessing her driver side...
I remember a time when yearly awareness campaigns around motorcycles were very prominant. Look left, look right, look bike springs to mind. As an ex rider I am especially aware of bikes and generally 'let them go' no matter where I am, or the circumstanes. I would prefer they stay in front of me...
Wonderful, addressed to nobody, sent by a 'moderator'! How stupid do they think we are? I'm so 'tech illiterate' that my grandkids have to set up my TV, and even I can see through this so-called mygov scam.
When are the 'powers that be' going to wake up to the fact that education is cheaper and more productive, for young people (and their parents/carers) than rapping them over the knuckles or locking them up where they learn even more ways to offend?
Did it not occur to any of the critics that this driver may simply have had car trouble and was looking for help? ie, someone to push the car out of the way while waiting for a mechanic or a tow?