Mood:
happyNow Playing: BBC Radio 4
Topic: Elisabeth's Entries
Thank you to those who submitted their own pizza poetry. I think this is the start of something really big.
It's raining pretty hard this morning and I can't decide whether cycling or walking (with a brolly) will get me to work drier.
RANT: It is illegal to cycle on the sidewalk in England. However, sometimes it is dangerous, or impossible to cross traffic on Woking's mean streets. So for most of my journey between work and home, I ride on the road (after almost being fined 30 pounds for being on the sidewalk--I'm not taking my chances...much). But there is one section...two blocks in fact, where I ride on the pavement so I can whizz around the corner into our street, and avoid the busy road.
Now, it seems that whenever I arrive at this point on the sidewalk, there are a million bitter pedestrians, who are so incredulous that I am cycling on the pavement that they don't make any room so I must wait...ok fine.. I don't mind. But yesterday, when I left the sidewalk and cycled on the grass section adjacent, one pedestrian stopped theatrically and made huge sweeping arm gestures as if my presence was simply ludicrous.
The main thing that bothers me though, is that so many people are bothered by such a trivial, inconsequential event. Why do people let this bother them, and why does it bother me?
Going to work...