One of those odder moments

[desperance]

I was just walking home from town, and I was passed on the pavement (snarl!) by a cyclist - who paused twenty yards ahead of me, unbuckled her helmet, dropped it into a council litter-bin, remounted her cycle and pedalled away. Presumably she feels that if she keeps off the roads her own life will be safe enough, now that she's passed all her risks on to the pedestrians around her - but it was still a weird thing to see.

Comments

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Oh, really. Cyclists are no more illiterate than any other person - there's all kinds of people using all modes of transport, wearing all colours of skin, etc.

I'll refrain from a diatriabe against car drivers e.g. using hands-on mobile phones, because some pedestrians are dangerous when walking and talking into their mobiles, too.