( * with all apologies to Led Zeppelin )
I got to admit - I just feel like I’ve been ran in to the ground by a heard of buffalo’s this morning , and not licked on the face by a small dog - yes I’m glad I can laugh about it :)
My painful predicament was brought to my attention at 4am this morning when I was awoken by what I thought was heavy rain , but this turned out to be a bust water
main - merrily dumping 100’s of gallons of water down the street ……………….
So one phone call later , had a gang of bemused employees of the water board looking down the hole , as if they had never seen this kind of thing before - which is not very confidence building - is it :)
A question - is there a difference between confidence and blind stupidity ????.
I only ask as I’m sure the latter is my own forte , as all aches and pains were forgotten the moment I got on my bike , bade farewell to the perturbed English water workers and tore off to work at the usual rapid rate of knots ( sorry ) :)
Thanks for your messages of sympathy ( wrong word here – maybe :) )
by the way ……….. it’s appreciated.:)
I didn’t hit my head when I fell off so I’m not sure what happened during the missing time ….. alien abduction ??? :) , but you’ll certainly not be surprised to learn I still won’t be wearing protective gear , especially a helmet
Ah !!! ……. the blind stupidity clause yet again - I think I’ll have it carved on my tombstone , but then again I won’t be the first or indeed the last to get “offed” in that particular way…………….sheltered life …………..what’s that …. :)……………
Forget - dancing in the streets……let’s have a fight ………..…….
Now - If you are going to indulge in that particular , traditional English pastime - make sure you are not on a public road in the middle of the day , causing a traffic jam with a police car sat in it , a few feet away from the police station itself - pink shirt – optional …………….oh yes I kid you not ………………………………
I came across this particular scene a few weeks ago when I was on my holidays .
The guy in the pink shirt was a taxi driver who had for reasons only known to
himself - stopped on a crossing , and in doing so had caused an extremely long jam back beyond the traffic lights.
The guy behind him in his BMW , had obviously taken offence to this - had got out of his car , and both of them ended up fighting in the middle of the road !!! ….
……… a few cars in front of my Harley .
The police car in the queue had obviously seen this , put its lights on and started cutting up the edge of the cars towards the boxing match.
I just pulled over , shut my bike off and watched as the female officer , who was - rotund - to put it mildly :) , and about 5ft 5 ins tall , and her not very much bigger male colleague , struggle for several minutes , to separate the two 6ft tall 16 stone- pugilists - who only really desisted because they were probably tired of beating the heck out of each other .
Hey - its amazing what us English do when were bored - just to amuse the tourists of course :)
