Communicating through a note on the windscreen
by Angus, 22 June, 2017, 2 comments
Woodland owners can be enraged by finding a note on their windscreen. Most people have got used to texts and emails and even speaking directly, but the note on the windscreen is an art form of its own and one that presumably goes back well over 100 years - perhaps even back to the Egyptians of you include the note left on a chariot seat. These notes can be very helpful ("I've left that fiver I owed you under the front wheel") or distinctly rude ("don't park in front of the gates - next time I'll let your tyres down"). In most cases this is one-way communication, so the car owner has the frustration of not being able to answer back and often you don't even know who has left the note. Surely this anonymity encourages people to be much ruder than they would be face-to-face, a bit like the phenomenon of the abusive posters on online message boards. Read more...
