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Daen yer in Cornwall m'dear (British Leyland and other vehicle manufacturers please note Cornwall begins where Plymouth ends, so there is somewhere in the British Isles for your spares departments to expand) us poor psv drivers be a much more courteous bunch than you up-country moaners.
We speaks to our passengers, 'elps them, and most of us acknowledge the courtesies of other road users and extend courtesies to them, until the silly season starts.
Then us 'as to put up with lorry drivers in cars (wolves in sheep's clothing), and car drivers in a world of their own and completely out of their tiny minds. 99 per cent of you treat our Cornish lanes just like the Cromwell Road (A4) or the M5, or Brands Hatch, or anywhere but a country lane which might just have a bus, tractor, herd of cows, or even passengers waiting for a bus lurking round one of our numerous blind corners.
Before anyone complains. I am but a Cornish immigrant, awaiting naturalisation some 95 years hence, and I have had the displeasure of driving a service bus in and around London.
I can assure you that having pulled into a bus layby up country you'll be lucky to get out again within 24 hours, no matter how many hand signals, flashers, or minefields you use.
Think on all you critics, we have a job to do and a timetable to run to, usually far stricter than any lorry schedule. We expect and get little, if any, understanding from other road users, and the further up country one gets the less consideration one gets from any driver, so there m'dears.
P. MONK, Lostwithiel, Cornwall. PS: Give 90 per cent of LTE "skidpan" drivers one of those funny old gearboxes that go crunch if they don't get it right first time, and they won't get out of their garages anyway.