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  Page 3 Boothstown Bugle May 2009    
 

Dustbin Lid Award

This month I must award my DBL to our esteemed editor.
He has been asking for it ever since I caught him buying flowers in Aldi for Valentines Day, and even worse, buying cards, he tells me they were for his wife, and his dog, I hope his wife believes that if she reads this.
Now he has lost the plot big time, he seems to have devoted the front page to trying to find out where a steam roller was going the other day.
All I know about it is that I was held up behind the thing on my way down Leigh Road.
I was stuck for ages behind a que almost back to the motorway trying to get past.
Eventually I arrived at the editors house on Mosley Commmon Road to give him my piece for this months Bugle, only to find him prancing about in the rain in his front garden, with his camera in hand.
He greeted me with “How far away is it?” "What?" I asked. "The steamer" he replied, with all the excitement of a dog in a pet shop.
"If you mean that noisy contraption belching out smoke, and holding all the traffic up, it’s just about going past the Post Office."
"OK he said I will be with you in a few minutes, when I have got some pictures of it."
"Don’t bother" I said tearing up the piece that I had written about the garden centre which is no longer there, but still has the signs up, just to cause utter confusion, and came back home to write this.
So Mr. Editor this months dustbin lid award goes to you, and well deserved it is.
Oh and while I am at it the two guys on the steam roller can share in the BDL because one lives in Stretford, and the other in Eccles, so what they were doing in Boothstown, other than holding up the traffic, is beyond me.PS I stand corrected the editor informs me that it was a steam traction engine, not a steam roller, ( clever clogs )

Did Burnley Council leaders read my last DBL? Maybe that is why they introduced the new test for taxi drivers.

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Car park antics
Have you ever sat in a car park observing the activities of some people who frequent them? It can be quite entertaining watching what goes on, maybe it would be a good idea to sell tickets.
There is of course the three space parker who will park a car usually a mini across the bays taking up three spaces, but I saw even better antics in the Asda car park at Leigh this week. No less than three drivers left their cars across the traffic lane blocking it off, and causing other drivers to reverse in and out of the car park, What I could not understand was that they then had to walk at lease 5 times the distance they would have walked if they had used three of the many empty bays just outside the store entrance.
Then there are the bozos who will saunter across the back of a car backing out, and shout abuse at the driver if he does not stop, what a shame you are not allowed to run over them, but I don’t suppose that it would be very P.C. to do that.
One of the best was outside the Co-op in Boothstown a well dressed young woman and a precocious girl, possibly her daughter, both looking as if they thought that they were better than everyone else got into an Essex tractor, the girl then tipped a load of rubbish out of her door before they drove off. What a great way to teach your children how to behave. Then there is always the show off with a mountain bike doing wheelies with no regard for the people who have to jump out of his way, It would be good to see one get knocked off. Do you have any car park stories? Let me have them, it beats sending your soppy stories to the editor
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DBL

The Dustbin Lid Award

    

Ok I know that I will get it in the neck for having yet another go at taxi drivers, but they do seem to go out of their way to pick up these awards.

Out of his was is exactly what one taxi driver did this week to earn his well deserved DBL. Advertising all the latest technology. We will find you with our sat nav equipped cars, this dopey driver was unable to tell the difference between the Boothstown British Legion, and the Boothstown Conservative Club. As there are only these two clubs in Boothstown, you could not imagine that anyone could get it wrong twice, but you guessed it this one did. Going to the British Legion twice to pick up a fare from the Conservative Club despite having been told by staff at the Legion that his fare was not there, and that this was not the Conservative club. He finally arrived at the right club almost an hour late. Probably it would be better to forget the sat nav and resort to the good old fashioned method of reading the illuminated sign over the door. How do I know all this? Because I was that fare., Did I give him a tip? Yes "Buy an A to Z.

    
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Boothstown Post Office Parking
Whilst I am on about road safety, have any of you tried parking to go to the post office in Boothstown? This is one for Salford Council to try to sort out. Some years ago when Royal Mail in their wisdom closed down Mosley Common Post Office, there was talk of creating a lay by outside the Boothstown office. This has not happened, nor is it likely to happen. For most of the day this junction is pandemonium, with cars double parked , and other drivers and pedestrians trying to dodge round them. Making it worse are the all day parkers who take up what available parking places are available.
Maybe a good start would be to introduce a 30 minute waiting restriction
 

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Can we please have our busses back?
One way to help with road safety crossing the East Lancashire road, and at the Boothstown Post Office would be to give us back our bus, which used to run from Leigh through Mosley Common and Boothstown then back across the East Lanc’s Rd. to Walkden then on it’s merry way to Manchester.
This bus now turns off down Brigewater Road missing out Boothstown, this means that Mosley Common residents who need to use the Post Office now have to walk or drive across the East Lancashire Road at Mosley common Road, already a notorious accident spot.
   

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And Finally

         
Are cars no longer fitted with handbrakes, or are modern day drivers just too bone idle to use them? There is nothing more annoying at night than sitting behind a car at the traffic lights with it's brake lights on, especially if it is raining. By the time the lights change, you are too dazzled to see where you are going. One good thing about being behind a private hire taxi is that the brake lights probably don't work anyway.  
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