Talk Morgan Forums Community The Malvern Arms Excuse to drive during lockdown

Each to their own, but I’d like to disassociate myself from any notion of judging the righteousness of others, I’m nowhere near qualified to do that.

Convertible 911s and loud music don’t spread viruses and he could have any number of valid reasons to be out.

ewn.. I JUDGE that you are just too practical and logical to own a Morgan...

Ewn..I agree - essential travel, no problem but what part of non-essential travel...means going out that many times?

I have wondered about doing similar “whistle blowing” but using the car horn when someone driving using a mobile is seen. Goes against the code of only sounding your horn to alert “I am here” to others though.
One night in the pub a couple of us discussed fitting a paintball gun to the car to fire at offenders. As the beer flowed it changed to bigger weaponry!

I agree with the mobile phone thing - it's easy to see if someone is blatantly putting others at risk, and is a fairly cut and dried offence.

However, it is very difficult to ascertain if someone is making an 'essential' journey or not based on seeing a car driving past, regardless of how many times. Unfortunately, it is indicative of our society that people will jump to the worst conclusion first.

Well we’ll never know now, you didn’t ask him. I wouldn’t have asked him either, I’d rather just believe he had a reason, care worker, volunteer, delivery driver, doctor, pharmacist, people do you know. Or maybe he’s a stalker, serial killer, pimp, let’s lynch him just in case.

Not saying I live if a rough area, but f he's driven past my house in a 911, then probably car thief

I'd like to think I'm non judgemental but I think we all are judgemental. We judge people on every aspect of their appearance and behaviour, where they live, what car they drive and so on.

I did make a longish essential journey this week in my everyday car and having only been out once in 3 weeks I was amazed at the number or cars on the road. Whilst I am also not qualified to judge the righteousness of others, I did wonder if everyone was on an essential journey, especially a Lamborghini driver who I although I did not see the driver I seem to have stereotyped them as a flash Harry joyrider type!

By the way my excuse to drive the Morgan would be that I have 2 other cars both diesel and short drives to the supermarket wouldn't be good for the DPF.

I would agree with you there Rob, about 10 years ago whilst still in the workplace we all had to do an online course on prejudices and another on subconscious bias, this was around the time when LGBT + an other including the undecided came in.

Well the prejudice side of things was fine flew straight through it, the subconscious bias took 3 attempts doing it totally honestly and it really surprised me just what I was holding onto up there so yes we do make instant often incorrect judgements those of us that can admit to not being Peter Perfect at least

I certainly hold back nowadays before judging too quickly, after all the guy in the 911 could just have a dose of the squits and he was trying to get to the chemist for some Diocalm I suspect we'll never know I hope he enjoyed that flat six anyway

And here you go, as if by magic, a flash but boring German car, just driving about all day turns up at my door while I’m being deliberately argumentative on TM

Poor sod said he normally works at the airport, the car’s on the drip and he can’t get out of it, he’s delivering parcels to survive.

( if that doesn’t work out, you’d get at least two bodies in the boot of that thing!)