Tuesday, November 28, 2006
7 scooters and 3 drunks
Overtook 7 scooters on the way home: new record. Which is nice.
(No, it wasn't the same scooter 7 times. It was 7 different scooters!)
Also avoided 3 drunk pedestrians who staggered onto the cycle path on various parts of Jagtvej:
First up, near Tagensvej, was a guy stood in the middle of the cycle path screaming that someone had stolen his pizza. Not so hard to work around as he was just in one position, well not exactly stood, he jumping up and down and screaming about a stolen pizza, but he wasn't moving left/right/forward/backward, so essentially motionless for my purposes.
Next up was at the junction of Nørrebrogade and Jagtvej: a couple of drunks wandering towards me when the junction caught them by surprise causing them to let go of each other. The one on the inside fell into the other pedestrians and a bench, the one on the outside fell into the cyclepath. I pulled up and rolled backwards to avoid him as he was trying to get himself back upright, but he only succeeded in staggering into the traffic. I left him and a car driver arguing about who was on what wrong piece of the road.
And to make my day complete I was waiting at the traffic lights outside a hotel on Falkoner Allé when a chap tried to hold himself up by clutching at a traffic light pole, missed, and fell onto me and then into the gutter. He crawled back onto the pavement, I got a green, and moved on.
Such a small town, so many drunks...
It'll only get worse until after the new year, and it's still only November!
(No, it wasn't the same scooter 7 times. It was 7 different scooters!)
Also avoided 3 drunk pedestrians who staggered onto the cycle path on various parts of Jagtvej:
First up, near Tagensvej, was a guy stood in the middle of the cycle path screaming that someone had stolen his pizza. Not so hard to work around as he was just in one position, well not exactly stood, he jumping up and down and screaming about a stolen pizza, but he wasn't moving left/right/forward/backward, so essentially motionless for my purposes.
Next up was at the junction of Nørrebrogade and Jagtvej: a couple of drunks wandering towards me when the junction caught them by surprise causing them to let go of each other. The one on the inside fell into the other pedestrians and a bench, the one on the outside fell into the cyclepath. I pulled up and rolled backwards to avoid him as he was trying to get himself back upright, but he only succeeded in staggering into the traffic. I left him and a car driver arguing about who was on what wrong piece of the road.
And to make my day complete I was waiting at the traffic lights outside a hotel on Falkoner Allé when a chap tried to hold himself up by clutching at a traffic light pole, missed, and fell onto me and then into the gutter. He crawled back onto the pavement, I got a green, and moved on.
Such a small town, so many drunks...
It'll only get worse until after the new year, and it's still only November!
Labels: cycling
# posted by threaded @ 11/28/2006 04:03:00 pm 
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