A quick 4 km ride to pick up a Metro and some shopping from Aldi. I averaged one 'lemming' per km...
I've got a question... How do they actually survive, given their total lack of road awareness?!
- A teenager is walking along the pavement staring at his phone. He turns and begins to cross, but doesn't look up until he is in the middle of the road. I am already steering round him. He looks surprised and mutters "SMIDSY"!
- A second teenager is walking along the pavement staring at his phone. (You know what's next, don't you!) He turns and begins to cross, but doesn't look up until he is in the middle of the road. I am already steering round him. He looks surprised and mutters "SMIDSY"!
- A middle-aged woman is walking along the pavement while staring up at the sky, no doubt worried about the risk of being zapped by a lightning bolt if the forecast turns out to be correct. No worries about the vastly greater risk when crossing the road though... She turns and begins to cross, but doesn't look down until she is in the middle of the road. I am already steering round her. She looks surprised and mutters "SMIDSY"!
- White van man flings open his door and leaps out into the road. Only then does he look back to see if anything is about to hit him. There was - ME, but I am already steering round him. He looks surprised and mutters "SMIDSY"!
Maybe it is because Coventry's roads tend to be wider than Todmorden's backstreets? The kind of road that even smartphone lovers might think twice about ambling across?
We had a bit of rain earlier.
The valley seems to attract a special type of "zombie". Before mobile phones it was simply not looking at anything, but they had their ears covered with headphones.
It seems to be a special sort down those parts. Not certain if it's people who have made the move to somewhere smaller, expecting it to be quieter and safer.
Good morning folks, its a dull grey and murky start, shopping and chores today
