summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
I picked my son up from school in a hurry as we needed to go to a friends house and look after their ill son whilst they had an important meeting back at school. My son was being slow etc... and up ahead I noticed a child getting on her bike on the wrong side of the road without an adult. I was slightly worried but as it was what we were about to do I assumed she would sort herself out.
She didn't ... she proceeded to cycle along the right hand side of the road. Tried to encourage my son to get a move on but he wasn't in that sort of mood. So remained about 200+ m ahead of us the whole way along the road (round a blind-ish corner etc). As we had to turn off I saw her signal left and move into what would be the right place if we were in Europe.
By that stage we had passed my friend on route to school to the meeting so I knew that I needed to get to her house. The ill child was left in the care of his 12 year old brother on the assumption that I was almost there.
(sorry for the piccy quality that was a crop at max zoom - otherwise you wouldn't have seen her in the full pic).
I feel guilty that I didn't abandon my son and go and help her... any other day I would have but I knew I needed to be elsewhere.
Now I'm sure I vaguely recognise her from the bike shed (year 6 I'm sure) - but I only saw her from the back. Do I hang around the gates on Monday and watch to see if she does the same thing or have a word with her anyway?
She didn't ... she proceeded to cycle along the right hand side of the road. Tried to encourage my son to get a move on but he wasn't in that sort of mood. So remained about 200+ m ahead of us the whole way along the road (round a blind-ish corner etc). As we had to turn off I saw her signal left and move into what would be the right place if we were in Europe.
By that stage we had passed my friend on route to school to the meeting so I knew that I needed to get to her house. The ill child was left in the care of his 12 year old brother on the assumption that I was almost there.
(sorry for the piccy quality that was a crop at max zoom - otherwise you wouldn't have seen her in the full pic).
I feel guilty that I didn't abandon my son and go and help her... any other day I would have but I knew I needed to be elsewhere.
Now I'm sure I vaguely recognise her from the bike shed (year 6 I'm sure) - but I only saw her from the back. Do I hang around the gates on Monday and watch to see if she does the same thing or have a word with her anyway?