Rubber duck... Not rhyming slang!
hopper1
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I bit the bullet this morning. Despite the weather forecast, I still went out.
The rain started after about 10 miles and got progressively worse.
I tried to buoy my spirits by treating the ride as an excercise to see how my new gear stood up...
After 39 miles, and in very heavy rain, my PowerTap died :evil:
The rain still worsening, standing water getting deeper, cars passing closer and closer... I just want to get home, now.
As I peel off a roundabout I come across a huge puddle, over a blocked drain, and right in the middle is a little bathtime rubber duck!... I just burst out laughing.
That image kept me smiling the rest of my way home, about 8 miles.
But, the poor little fella was on his own.
On arrival at my house, I immediately set about hosing my bike down, then put it back in the garage. Once out of my wet gear, I made some sandwiches and had a hot drink. Followed that with a nice soak, then settled in front of the TV.
Whilst watching the F1, I decided that I couldn't leave poor little ducky on his own, so, I jumped in the motor and drove up the road...
He'd gone.... I'm gutted, now He made my day!
The rain started after about 10 miles and got progressively worse.
I tried to buoy my spirits by treating the ride as an excercise to see how my new gear stood up...
After 39 miles, and in very heavy rain, my PowerTap died :evil:
The rain still worsening, standing water getting deeper, cars passing closer and closer... I just want to get home, now.
As I peel off a roundabout I come across a huge puddle, over a blocked drain, and right in the middle is a little bathtime rubber duck!... I just burst out laughing.
That image kept me smiling the rest of my way home, about 8 miles.
But, the poor little fella was on his own.
On arrival at my house, I immediately set about hosing my bike down, then put it back in the garage. Once out of my wet gear, I made some sandwiches and had a hot drink. Followed that with a nice soak, then settled in front of the TV.
Whilst watching the F1, I decided that I couldn't leave poor little ducky on his own, so, I jumped in the motor and drove up the road...
He'd gone.... I'm gutted, now
He made my day! Start with a budget, finish with a mortgage!
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Foe ducks sake...
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Now that's a story to warm the cockles,i laughed too when i read it,maybe he flew south when the rain eased off,i was gonna go out but that wind was hairy.0
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Yesterday's good samaritan act - removing and binning a broken wicker lampshade from the opposite side of the road for which traffic was having to slow down or stop in order to avoid it (the weather was pretty grim so not easy for a motorist to tell what it was). Did make me smile that a 4x4 could be so easily impeded by an old lampshade though....
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David"It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal0
