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No commuting for me today as the boss is having to bring his dog (doberman) into work as his mrs is away from home and the dog is very destructive. As the only place to lock my bike up is literally in the office on the other side of the wall from where I sit, I certainly am not leaving it where the dog can chew bits off it!
Something that has always bothered me when walking from work to the city centre and around my town centre is the way that other people walk. The hogging of the whole pavement by a single person as they walk in the middle of it leaving you to either push them out of the way as you pass when they invariably ignore you after asking politely to pass them; shoulder them out of the way irrespective of whether they’ve heard you or not; squeeze between them and the building you’re passing or walk in the road and potentially get splattered by car, bus, lorry or tram. Or the crazed cyclist who has no regard for anything.
Take this morning for example. Walking from Piccadilly to Ardwick Green I spent most of that time on the road as ignorant people, usually alone, walk centrally down the pavements as though they own the gaff leaving no room to pass them by! I can understand it if they had umbrellas up (it was raining) or had a pushchair, but when it’s just them and their handbag or them and their apparently-unchecked-for-the-last-3-seconds balls then there really is no need for it. When I walk anywhere I’m usually aware of the people around me and will move over if I see that someone wants to pass me by if I’m in the way. More often than not I walk kerbside or close to the buildings to allow for easy passing.
Have we become a nation of lazy-arsed, selfish, ignorant idiots?
Grumble grumble grumble.
