Guns and cars
I was driving my car, with some friends also passenging. We had just driven a good few miles to get some ammo for my new BB gun (a Steyr AUG) for no other reason that it was a nice day and I felt like going for a long drive. Obviously I needed to take the gun with me when buying BBs from the shop, even though I left it in the boot whilst doing so.

On the way back, one friend dared another to point the gun at me. A driver with a replica firearm pointed at his head. Days after 7/7. On a road that while wasn't exactly busy, did have at least one other vehicle in view. This image caused me to panic slightly, which to the outside observer probably made it look even worse.

I glanced in the rear-view mirror and noticed the woman driving behind had a look of complete terror on her face. Noticing this, my slight panic turned to fear and I looked over my shoulder to try and get my friend to put the gun down. The woman took this as a cue to put her foot right down and speed past the car, all the while staring into the car, with me staring back at her, both displaying fear-striken faces, albeit mine for reasons of not wanting to get shot at by anti-terror police rather than being hijacked. She handbrake turned at the next exit, presumably continuing her fast escape on that road to notify the authorities.

Fortunatly there were no other cars around at this point. Not wanting to remain a sitting duck on the main road for the police and realising the woman was probably too terrified to make note of my number plate, I took the next the exit on the other side of the road and got lost in the maze of back roads of the North Walean countryside before emerging at a small town and then finding my way back home from there.
(Cuthbert Annihilator, Wed 7 Nov 2007, 19:11, 6 replies)

Can you use passenging as a verb?

(Seance Trumpet has got no beef with a man enjoying a croissant, Wed 7 Nov 2007, 20:41, closed)

To passenge,
I suppose if one were passenging then they would theoretically be a passenger, but I don't know the etymology of that word.
(THIRTY-TWO - Sputnik -, Wed 7 Nov 2007, 22:19, closed)

same thing happened to me
but when i looked in the mirror there was a cop on a bike. somehow he didnt see the gun
( Terry Oblong There's nobody here but us chickens on, Wed 7 Nov 2007, 22:36, closed)

I've never heard the verb
But what else are they doing? Travelling would sort of fit, but it doesn't imply a state of operating the controls or not, which the is part of the definition of being a passenger. Although since I said I was driving, that information is possibly superfluous. But situations might arise where it is not.
(Cuthbert Annihilator, Wed 7 Nov 2007, 23:41, closed)

Years back, a couple of mates...
had those BB guns and being the 'boy racer' types, they'd spend all day parked up on the market square shooting at each other...right opposite Lloyds bank.

Cue an armed response unit being scrambled and said mates absolutely cacking themselves.

Oh what a laugh that was...
( snee held his breath since, Thu 8 Nov 2007, 8:35, closed)

Surely
Days after 7/7 there could have been no police in the North Walean countryside? I thought they were all busy in central London, doing 'better-late-than-never' exercises and shooting backpackers in tube stations?!
(Greencloud Wanted to go fishing on, Thu 8 Nov 2007, 11:37, closed)