Friday, 18 June 2010

Bike Rage

I cycle to work in a cloud of rage.

I rage at drivers; car drivers, bus drivers, 2 fingers in the air drivers.
Lorry drivers, van drivers, scooters and bikers.
The school run drivers; minds on kids, schoolbags, lunchbags, homework.
Late for work.

I rage at inappropriately placed street furniture; litter-bins, lamp-posts, signs and signals.
Bus stops, pillarboxes, kerbs and cobbles.
Junctions, traffic lights, potholes, broken bottles and broken bricks.
Tin cans, dog mess, take-away and vomit.

I rage at pedestrians; walking, talking, meandering and stopping.
Never looking.
Oblivious in headphones, mobile phones, texting and tweeting.
Never listening.


I worry that it can't be doing my blood pressure any good.

3 comments:

  1. Now what gave you that idea?

    And what was that about queen of rant, shall we have a competition?

    Isn't blogging brilliant, you can get rid of all that pent-up frustration, you can be rude or lewd, you can be cross, you can be sweetness and light (yuk), and nobody ever needs to know it's you.

    Don't do what I did, don't meet up with other bloggers; most of the ones I've met are charming, delightful people; I felt right out of place.

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  2. Would you like to join fridge soup as a cook? I know you don't post a lot, but you might have the odd snippet?

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  3. Gosh, Friko, I'm honoured. It will indeed be the odd crumb - I can barely keep this blog going. No thanks to the sweetness and light though - I spend all day being nice to people, this is my space to vent!

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