you'll never guess what held me up this morning

Clever Pun
Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
edited February 2008 in Commuting chat
A swan on cable street :lol:

there was loads of people walking around it and it was fricking massive

What bizzarrities have you met on the way to work.. or going home for that matter
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  • el_presidente
    el_presidente Posts: 1,963
    Clever Pun wrote:
    A swan on cable street :lol:

    there was loads of people walking around it and it was fricking massive

    What bizzarrities have you met on the way to work.. or going home for that matter

    I regularly get held up by the cavalry round Regents Park. It is quite a sight to see, they have a convoy of 100 horses or so that are trotted down from the stables to Horseguards Parade, usually about 7.15 am. Each soldier rides one horse and leads two others one on each side. On a cold morning with the steam and breath coming off the beasts it is very impressive.
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  • Gussio
    Gussio Posts: 2,452
    el_presidente wrote:
    On a cold morning with the steam and breath coming off the beasts it is very impressive.

    I imagine that the horses are quite a sight as well.... :wink:
  • ChrisLS
    ChrisLS Posts: 2,749
    ...dam great tree, this morning, right across the cycle lane, ditch on one side, high bank and woods on the other...so I had to scramble up the bank, crash through the undergrowth and back down the bank... :?

    ...just before Christmas there were three loose ponies to negotiate...pretty scary in the dark... :o
    ...all the way...'til the wheels fall off and burn...
  • el_presidente
    el_presidente Posts: 1,963
    I saw the nags again this morning
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  • jokeyjon
    jokeyjon Posts: 939
    I have been held up by the cavalry in the park before. They do a full uniform rehearsal just prior to the real event and it's really impressive to see them with the horsehair plumes, steel breastplates & a couple of guys at the back with huge axes....

    The oddest thing to hold me up was in a really cold February a couple of years back. It must have been -2, -3 degrees and I was just south of Hanover Sq when I had to stop as the police shepherded a completely naked man into the back of a police van.
    These so-called speed bumps are a joke....if anything, they slow you down.
  • claash
    claash Posts: 145
    Now that would have been a fun sight!! :shock:
  • mrchrispy
    mrchrispy Posts: 310
    a load of ducks on the cannal near stretford, they live on that stretch and stand on the path hissing at you as you pass. they havent jumped me yet but i'm expecting it someday.
  • Gussio
    Gussio Posts: 2,452
    Outside Victoria Coach Station this morning there was a long queue behind a bus which was stuck across the road because a parked scaffolding lorry was blocking its turning circle. I got held up because a large bloke (presumeably the driver of the lorry) was having a stand up row in the road with a driver of a blue mini. The woman got into her car eventually and I squeezed past. She said something through her window to angry Mr Lorry and he turned around, walked back to the car and opened up her door so that could carry out shouting at her while waving his fist. I stopped a safe distance away and considered intervening. Ashamed to say that I decided not to, largely because Mr Lorry was very aggressive and large :oops: There were a couple of other guys on the pavement, also keeping a safe distance. This has been weighing on my mind for much of the day; I am disappointed in myself not to have said something at the time when the guy was bullying the poor woman. :( That said, I am also quite glad that my nose is not splattered across my face....

    One of my earliest memories is of being at a football match with my grandfather in the late 70's. It was at Stoke on a Saturday afternoon. The guys standing around us were effing and blinding a bit and Grandad pointed out that there was a small child in the crowd. People respected this and language was moderated. I can't see that happening now for the same reason that nobody stood up to Mr Lorry. Has the state of scoiety in the UK really slipped that much in so short a time or am I looking back with rose tinted cycling shades?
  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    Gussio - The days of intervening in such a situation are long gone - I doubt you'd have been thanked and something unwanted may have happened.

    Best to not get involved these days. It's a shame, but it's true.
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