Seems like every day I’m officially a driver I’m seeing more and more rubbish drivers. This week’s one really took the biscuit.
In the West End of Colwyn Bay, you have to turn right (if you’re coming off the motorway) to go up my road. It’s quite a difficult road to turn into, as it’s really busy because the zoo is nearby. As such, there effectively becomes three lanes: one going left, one going right, and the middle one waiting to pull into the road.
Here was the situation that I had:
Yes, somebody who was queuing behind me pulled in front of me to overtake me. I almost hit him, and I didn’t see him. I’ll be honest, it doesn’t make me a bad driver, I just didn’t think anybody would be that stupid. He looked like what me and my friends call “Welsh Farmer Type”: a very dangerous type of older man who shuns modern technology and is generally dangerous to people like myself and to themselves.
In happier news, on Saturday night I headed out to Liverpool with a few friends for a night out. It’s the first time I’ve been out with them for over a year, and the first time I’ve been to Liverpool since July. I never realised how much I missed the city. The people, the vibe, everything. For everybody complaining about binge drinking and the like should’ve been out in Liverpool, I didn’t see any trouble anywhere, and there was even some street entertainers.
Nothing like that in Colwyn Bay! Well, unless you consider “Street Entertainers” as Ryan from Llysfaen vs. Jordan from Mochdre in a street fight on Station Road. Classy.
I was smiling all through my hangover yesterday and most of today, but the funniest thing from the weekend happened in Lloyds.
There’s a popular type of music in Liverpool known as Scouse House. Personally, I hate it, as it’s dance music with not a huge amount of tunes, just loud noises. Anyway, we were in Lloyds with one of these songs came on. Half way through the song, the Lloyd’s alarm – which goes off whenever the back door is opened – went off. It’s timing with the rhythm of the song was perfect, and a bunch of scousers stood next to us were saying “Oh that’s a fucking banging remix right there!”.
So, if you want to make millions, heed this advice: come up with a dance tune, stick a door alarm going off over it, and market it to Liverpudlians.
More photos are available here. Han, rather rudely, noticed that one of the images in there is my O-Face. Can you guess which one? More to the point, would you want to?
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Rhys Wynne, the author of this blog, is a 20 something web designer from Colwyn Bay. 
At least http://photos-h.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v193/162/86/504157283/n504157283_488391_3297.jpg isn’t your sex face!!
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why is the fighting thug called Ryan? I am offended
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A samba band!! I’m joining one in Blackpool quite soon.
p.s. Do you remember me Rhys? I know Craig and Sarah, and I used to read your blog a while back (Craig introduced me to it), and forgot about it, because I am useless, but hooray for the joys of RSS!!
That sucks about the crappy driver. Unfortunately, we have tons of those here. More than our fair share, if I do say so myself.
Oh, a couple of weeks ago I saw an ex class’mate’ called Ryan fighting in the Bay. Stuck in my head :S
Course I do. Yeah still keep in touch with Sarah occassionally, haven’t seen her for ages though
(scary considering how much time we spent together – I mean that generally 
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You should come to Blackpool for a night out sometime
It’s proper rubbish 
Sadly, Vancouver seems to be the ‘immagrant’ place, where the immagrants from China all like to come.
And if you’ve never been here, they are SO aggressive. :*(
Immigrant. If you can’t spell it correctly don’t criticize them.
dude… did you watched spaced?! thers a hilarious bit in that where the trance loving guy starts dancing to firealarms and traffic lights going off.. genious!
ah scouseland.. will have to go back for a visit!
as for crazy drivers… just ignore them. old people are especially dodgy. bless them they still need to get out and about thou!
at least you were on the correct side of the road this time.. little bit worried why ur sitting in the middle of the road thou
I’ll tell you a similarity between driving and pregnancy. Till one does not know how to drive, he looks at all the other drivers with respect and takes advice from them, but once a person learns to drive he stops taking advice and starts giving advice to people as to how to drive. The same goes with pregnancy, till you are pregnant and not gone into labor, you look at all the mothers and listen to their advice very anxiously and with lot of interest and once you have delivered a baby yourself you come on the other side of the fence and start advising others. Even I have started doing the same since the time I have learn driving and delivered a baby.
It’s fun to give advice, isn’t it……………………….
Just don’t mix the two up!!