Simple question really .....Why do 'lane walkers' walk on the wrong side of the road?
I'm not a lane walker, but even I know that you walk facing the traffic!
Why do I know that, and they don't?
Firstly, you've got the 'suicide strollers', often with a baby, papoose style, and/or rucksacks, for whom every day is Sunday. They nonchanently walk with one foot on the raised grassy bit and the other on the road. Up and down, up and down. They never look behind them; just keep on trudging, head down, having complete faith that you're not going to knock them flat.
Then there's those who are taking the dog 'walkies' for heavens sake! They are walking on the raised bit and trotty four-paws is tugging on its lead in all directions but mainly ... IN THE ROAD!
And THEN ... worse than that, is when you come across a WHOLE FAMILY 'crocodilling'!
Meandering along, completely oblivious as to whether it's going to be a SatNav lost Argos truck that's going to take them out or a herd of wildebeast!
Unbelievable!
As a car driver, it's quite apparent that I'm not a lane lover by any means, simply because you never quite know what's round the corner.
For example, once I came round a bend, only to come across a horse lying in the road! Scarey, or what! It's rider was unsuccessfully trying to coax it to its feet after the pair of them had slid down a dewy bank of grass. Even though I was assured that the stables had been informed and that a truck, with a winch, was on its way, the situation was quite impassable and I, too, was then in danger of being hit from behind.
Another time, a stag and I scared the bejeebers out of each other, when it suddenly veered out of the hedgerow, missing my driver's side by millimeters, ran a few meters alongside the moving car and incredibly managed to turn back into the greenery. Now that WAS scarey! For both of us!
Both were unforeseen road hazards, but just the sort of thing one should expect in the countryside ..... but lane walkers? Well, they are simply a needless hazard!
A danger to me and certainly a danger to themselves.
Here endeth the lesson ... according to ... Mouse x teehee
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