Late to the conversation, but my entry, not sure if anyone else has mentioned it yet: dirty mags in the bushes
What a way to get your filth, like an outside exchange library
Back on topic, I'd like to concur with the fact that you very rarely see children playing outside in public areas (or anywhere, for that matter; they all seem to be too busy indulging in whatever rubbish appears on whatever electronic device they happen to be using).
Too interested in the latest video game on their tablet device or show on Telly to think about the outdoors
And over zealous parents who think there's a stranger/ paedophile on every street corner just waiting to take their child.
You don't see many dog turds of any sort on the pavement these days
Dog turds have increased a lot in my area thanks to Lockdown 1 and the increased dog ownership among people who oughtn’t own dogs.
Echoing AlterEgo's post, there was an explosion of them in the part of Edinburgh I lived in at the time of lockdown.
Another useful one would be: "Let passengers get off before you get on!"
I had an idea that the bus company here just wouldn't entertain. When there's people with restricted mobility/ prams/ wheelchairs to get off, when you pull up to the stop, don't open the doors until the first people are at the front of the bus, ready to get off. People wanting to get on look directly at the driver and if they see nobody between them, they just assume that nobody is getting off and step on as soi as the doors open.
The thing that gets me angry are those that try to get on while you're still getting off, I always stop and say ' he/ she knows you're there, they aren't going to drive off without you' followed usually by some expletive
As we're doing cars, I learned to drive in my mum's old Austin Metro which had a manual choke and only four forward gears.
When the car was replaced with one that had five gears, mum was suspicious of the fifth gear and refused to use it. When she finally got used to having five gears, the car was replaced again with one that had six
My stepdaughter passed her test 8 months ago, bought a car within days of passing and has driven regularly ever since, she has yet to go into her 5th gear, she's frightened of the additional speed and responsibility IMO
I do - I had an old sodium light right outside my house until a couple of months ago, when it was replaced with a new LED one. I have less light in my bedroom now than I used to (although it was never really a problem as I used thick curtains).
What I don't like about the new streetlight is it only lights the area directly below it. The old one used to light up my drive and front door. Since it's been replaced, the area around my front door is pitch black, so I've had to have a security light installed.
My parents cul de sac has their streetlights on only one side of the street. As there is a bend in the road near the entrance/ exit, the drives to each of the houses are offset (street is all semi detached bungalows with driveways and garages on the detached side) and so where the ideal place for a streetlight on the other side of the road would be, there's a driveway.
My parents, as you might have already guessed, live on the side without the streetlights, since the upgrade to LED's you cannot make anything out on their side of the street, when I get my key out to go into their house when I'm visiting, if it's night-time, since I have Yale lock keys for their house, my flat and my office, I have to wake up my phone or put its torch on to see as I just can't discern which is which in the gloom.