Notes from commuting...

[juliet]

Recycling lorries: *look* just like rubbish lorries, but don't *smell* like them. This is a Good Thing when you're cycling behind them.

Most of the way from Elephant to Westminster Bridge, I was cycling just behind a bloke in tight blue lycra shorts. I am unsure whether he is aware of just how *worn* his shorts are getting. I mean, don't get me wrong, he had a very nice bottom, but I'm not sure I wanted to be able to see it in quite that much detail... (mind you, I say this - I used to wear a pair of drawstring trousers to cycle in, until a nice chap pulled up alongside me by the lights by Buckingham Palace & pointed out that they had slipped down rather a long way, He assured me that he had no complaints whatsoever, but thought I might like to know. I switched to my nice black football shorts after that).

Nearly got run over by a hearse at Hyde Park Corner when it jumped the red light (& I don't just mean 'shot amber a little late', I mean sailed straight through a red with plenty of time to stop). I'm afraid I did shout at it 'just because you're a coffin, you still have to stop at red lights you fucker!', which might be construed as disrespect to the deceased, but the deceased was, well, deceased, & I was rather more worried about me remaining un-deceased.

Comments

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

What a goth way to go, though! Run over by a hearse!

We mostly see the horse-drawn ones around here - seems to be something of an East London thing.

[lovelybug.livejournal.com]

Hehe - you get 50 goth points ;) Glad you are intact!

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Well, exactly. The bloke in the back may be dead but the two in the front still have plenty of due care and attention left, that they have no excuse for not donating to the worthy cause of stopping at the red light.

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I did shout at it

Nothing says "You're a bad driver" better than being keyed. :-)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/]

Keying the average speeding driver is going to require carful aim with a key mounted on the end of a harpoon gun...

[al-bullit.livejournal.com]

Or.. SPD shoes with nice metal toe studs (for grip off-road, honestly officer) that make wonderful marks and holes in cars that cut you up.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/]

If you can catch up with a speeding driver who went along the road crossing yours, on a bike, you have my respect.
(I don't include when the driver has to stop soon after)
Those shoes could come in handy in Cambridge, mind you...

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

That's quite strange actually, the hearse going through the red, because they generally have the rest of the procession behind them. That's when it gets interesting because if half the procession gets through before it goes red the other half generally tries to stay with them... maybe the deceased in this case had no friends or family and therefore no procession?