This morning's commute and other commuting stories

I find myself getting more and more grossed out by just how many cars there are everywhere. I just picked my daughter up from nursery and I struggled to squeeze her buggy in to the gates as there are so many cars, idling, waiting for a space to appear. Made me almost feel a bit panicky.

Motherfucking windy motherfucker

'The trouble with most forms of transport, he thought, is basically one of them not being worth all the bother. On Earth — when there had been an Earth, before it was demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass — the problem had been with cars. The disadvantages involved in pulling lots of black sticky slime from out of the ground where it had been safely hidden out of harm's way, turning it into tar to cover the land with, smoke to fill the air with and pouring the rest into the sea, all seemed to outweigh the advantages of being able to get more quickly from one place to another — particularly when the place you arrived at had probably become, as a result of this, very similar to the place you had left, i.e. covered with tar, full of smoke and short of fish.'

Really need to re read that. Been a few years.

I had it dome, i remember that feeling it's amazing. But now prepare yourself for the plane tree pollen onslaught you have no glasses to protect your eyes now!

Just dug out HHGTTG. I'd forgotten what a slim book it is.

I'm definitely due another re-read of it - its been a while

plane tree pollen onslaught

Oh God, not again! Already!?

I got itchy eyes during the hot spell just gone. Worried i'm getting worse and the tree spaff is going to render me blind.

plane tree pollen onslaught

Oh God, not again! Already!?

Nooooooooooooooooo

28 miles into a headwind on a loaded cargo bike this morning, hard work!

Swerved to avoid a pothole and got a massive "HEY, WATCH IT ASSHOLE!!" from some human turd in his sweaty mid 50s on an e-bike. Apparently I was at fault for not realising he was hot on my heels in his hi-viz big belly splendour.

hi-viz big belly splendour

vividly close description to people I know, will steal

The next four days will be shit on the train back from Bristol to Cheltenham, forcing myself off the train to a platform full of race wankers pissed from drinking all day at the festival

Cross post but snapped my BB on the way home tonight....

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/331669/#comment14652258

Snapped a chain on my way to work yesterday. Had only done about three hundred miles on it, hrmph. Thankfully wasn't far from home & nipped back & was out again one quicklink later.

45mph tailwind, I'll take that.

Headwind here, so much energy for so little speed.

Heavy, heavy work.

Headwind plus Carry all the stuff to work day. Apparently the wind will also turn tonight 😂 fun.

Bloke using a whistle instead of a bell to alert pedestrians on his commute. Great fun to watch.

noticed weird movement from my chainset 2/3 of the way into work.

spent the final 1/3 gleefully imagining what new bike i would build for myself as an entirely necessary replacement. once at work i realised that the weird movement was just a loose chainring bolt and nae bother to fix.

sour disappointment followed.

TLDR:

I see quite a few of those, they mainly seem to be urgently blowing it whilst sailing through a red light.

I remember I did that for a while after someone nicked my bell a few years back. Only used very sparingly - but it did make the mobile phone zombies jump a bit. Ditched it again pretty quick, as I didn't really bother much and I realised it was a bit twattish. Didn't realise it had become a thing?

omg bells with whistles can gtf