Globalti
Legendary Member
We are becoming quite risk-averse and with the depression caused by lockdown we have lost our cycling mojo for the moment. Two weeks ago GtiJunior and I were out and a young gentleman raced across a roundabout he was entering without stopping, luckily GtiJ is a driver so he checked left, saw the guy approaching at speed in his black Golf Gti and stopped, the car missing him by a foot.
Then yesterday my brother in the USA crossed a pedestrian crossing at Phoenix airport and was hit by a car, which threw him into the air. He landed on his noggin, saw stars, had massive pain in his thigh but sat up and gave the driver a mouthful of Anglo-Saxon. The driver was a man aged 85 who said he had been looking at the direction signs. My bro had a plane to catch so he photographed the man's licence and reg, refused an ambulance and hobbled into the terminal then endured a 5 hour flight back to Detroit with aching head and leg. Feels better this morning, he says.
With our impending move to the tranquility of rural Scotland in exactly two weeks you'll understand wy we are reluctant to take any risks at the moment.
Then yesterday my brother in the USA crossed a pedestrian crossing at Phoenix airport and was hit by a car, which threw him into the air. He landed on his noggin, saw stars, had massive pain in his thigh but sat up and gave the driver a mouthful of Anglo-Saxon. The driver was a man aged 85 who said he had been looking at the direction signs. My bro had a plane to catch so he photographed the man's licence and reg, refused an ambulance and hobbled into the terminal then endured a 5 hour flight back to Detroit with aching head and leg. Feels better this morning, he says.
With our impending move to the tranquility of rural Scotland in exactly two weeks you'll understand wy we are reluctant to take any risks at the moment.
