Holdsworth
Über Member
- Location
- Crewe, Cheshire
Cycling home from work early this afternoon through Sandbach approaching this crossing from the bypass r'bout, and I blow my nose as you do when cycling along. I must add that I am suffering from a cold and one of those painful sinus headaches
. I feel a drip.. drip... drip.. running down from my nose and instantly realise that I have set off a nosebleed, my first in months. These are annoying at the best of times but terrible when you're on your own with no easy access to tissues to stem the torrent that began streaming from my right nostril. I had to stop on the pavement by side of the road at the crossing to sort it all out and stand by holding my nose and tilting my head up.
At this point it has dripped onto my coat, my water bottle and my mitts, as well as all over the skin between the nose and mouth. I must've looked in a sorry state, which may have been that the first passers by ( an lovely old couple) thought I had fallen off whilst riding
I had to explain that it was simply a nosebleed set of my a cold and they very kindly gave me a pack of tissues to help clean the mess up. A few more people walking by stopped over the next few minutes wondering what was up and again I had to explain that it was just a nosebleed.
This eventually culminated in a police car stopping on the opposite side of the road at the crossing and asking what was up and... You get the idea anyway.
A bit of a knock to my pride but feel nice having been shown that some people do care and stop to help if they can, which in this case helped a lot to get myself looking somewhat presentable before continuing home and not looking like a someone who's been in a fight and lost
In the end all that stopped had a friendly chat and we went our separate ways. BTW I still have a spot of blood on the Cateye computer which I haven't washed off yet
Other things that happened on my commute today if your interested:
* Close overtake by a car
* Spotted a police car guarding the site of an RTA on my commute route, a smashed telegraph pole and skid marks
* A council bin lorry overtake approaching a blind bend into oncoming traffic forcing a Micra to come to a complete halt. I would've reported it if I could remember the reg (Terrible short-term memory)
*Note to self, buy a helmet cam ASAP!!!*
. I feel a drip.. drip... drip.. running down from my nose and instantly realise that I have set off a nosebleed, my first in months. These are annoying at the best of times but terrible when you're on your own with no easy access to tissues to stem the torrent that began streaming from my right nostril. I had to stop on the pavement by side of the road at the crossing to sort it all out and stand by holding my nose and tilting my head up.At this point it has dripped onto my coat, my water bottle and my mitts, as well as all over the skin between the nose and mouth. I must've looked in a sorry state, which may have been that the first passers by ( an lovely old couple) thought I had fallen off whilst riding
I had to explain that it was simply a nosebleed set of my a cold and they very kindly gave me a pack of tissues to help clean the mess up. A few more people walking by stopped over the next few minutes wondering what was up and again I had to explain that it was just a nosebleed.This eventually culminated in a police car stopping on the opposite side of the road at the crossing and asking what was up and... You get the idea anyway.
A bit of a knock to my pride but feel nice having been shown that some people do care and stop to help if they can, which in this case helped a lot to get myself looking somewhat presentable before continuing home and not looking like a someone who's been in a fight and lost
In the end all that stopped had a friendly chat and we went our separate ways. BTW I still have a spot of blood on the Cateye computer which I haven't washed off yet
Other things that happened on my commute today if your interested:
* Close overtake by a car
* Spotted a police car guarding the site of an RTA on my commute route, a smashed telegraph pole and skid marks
* A council bin lorry overtake approaching a blind bend into oncoming traffic forcing a Micra to come to a complete halt. I would've reported it if I could remember the reg (Terrible short-term memory
)*Note to self, buy a helmet cam ASAP!!!*
