Man after my own heart!

"You call it 'iPod oblivion', I just call it stupidity," said Inspector Parr.

Today mark Ginevra's first month on the road. I'm truly loving it except that every time I get on the road I get really tense 'cos I'm so worried about other road users. And I'm not talking about the obvious ones such as cars, buses and lorries. I'm talking about pedestrians, such as the 4 year old girl who threw herself under my front wheel (fortunately with no consequences as I'd already slowed down due to being near a school), because her mother could not be bothered holding her hand or even looking for traffic before letting her dash into the road, or the bloke who suddenly jumped in front of me on the cycle lane (also without consequences as I'd already noticed him walking erratically so I had also slowed down and was ready to brake).

So it is that every time I am close to a pavement with children or dogs on it, I slow down to almost 0 in case something unexpected happens. I don't usually give the same consideration to adults, as frankly if you make it past 20 and you still haven't learnt both consideration for other road users (and people in general) and self-preservation, it's only right and proper that you should be removed from the gene pool.

So, yeah, I'm with Inspector Parr.