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Here you will find older scratches, musings and other detritus that once were located on the front pages, but have now faded.

Filed away here to collect dust and cobwwwebs in perpetuity, links may break, facts may change and data may corrupt.

On occasion I may come down here to tidy, but for the most, I prefer to leave the past where it lies.

Amusing

One amusing story which might make you chuckle.

The other day at work I was running late for a meeting, so was hurrying along on the pavement next to a one way system when I came to cross a road. A white van was slowly pulling up in front of me and a black cab behind that. The van started to edge forward and I glanced back over my shoulder to see a lull in the traffic he was aiming for.

I checked to my right to make sure I wasn't going to get hit by a motor bike and stepped jogged into the road, aiming for a gap that was going to appear behind the van as he pulled off and the cab edged forward into the existing gap. I checked the traffic again over my left shoulder to make sure that nothing was speeding that might stop the van, and then whipped my head round and right to make sure I couldn't see any bikes coming up over the far side of the cab.

It was at about this moment there were two strange noises.

The first, I only identified retrospectively, was the sound of an engine cutting out. The second was the sound of my face and left shoulder bouncing off of the rear wing of the van.

I pulled myself from the tarmac apologising by waving in the genral direction of the WVM's wing mirror and then returned to clutching my ever deadening arm, vaguely aware of the hysterical fits of laughter eminating from the cabbie.

26 May 2007 9:50 | (0) comments | Things

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