As I got there a Porsche moved across the box junction as a space appeared. I could see there was room for me as well, so carefully followed him. I then noticed something strange was going on in that car. The driver was holding a piece of A4 paper in his left hand, and something else was going on.
I have mentioned before how riding gives such a good view of what drivers get up to. In this case, as I followed him I could see he was crossing a busy box junction, about to join the tail of a queue, surrounded by bikes and bicycles, with a printout of a spreadsheet in his left hand, and he was annotating it with a pencil in his right hand!
As he got to the other side of the junction, I pulled up alongside him, looked down at him and shouted “You stupid Wanker!” He looked up, and the look in his eyes! I thought he was going to die! That is one of the great things about wearing a Hein Gericke jacket that looks like this –
Everyone thinks you are Plod!
2 comments:
Wearing a bright-yellow safety vest has that same sort of effect.
John
I was wearing mine and pulled over into a loading bay to put my sunglasses on. People ran out of the adjacent sweet shop like mad, jumped into their cars, and all zoomed off. They too thought I was plod. I was left speechless :O
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