Good Idea, Bad Idea.

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Good Idea:
     Looking both ways before crossing the road.

Bad Idea:
     Upon seeing that there is a car maneuvering into a car-parking space, stepping boldly out in front of it and beginning to hobble your little old lady way across the road regardless.

Badder Idea:
     When said car screeches to a halt rather than mowing your dinky little old lady self down and stares at you with undisguised horror having nearly flattened you, shaking your fist angrily in his direction and performing a gesture known in popular modern circles as 'flipping the bird'.

And finally, the deliciously Bad Idea cherry on top of the Bad Idea cake:
     Said 'flipping the bird' completed, propping your little red and white checked shopping trolley up against the curb, leaning your walking stick against it and then rolling yourself a cigarette, which you take the time to light and begin smoking before at last starting to make your way, oh so slowly, across to the other side of the road, leaving a mass of stunned, blinking people - one of them still sat behind the wheel of a halted dark blue Volvo - in your wake.

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It was one of those moments that one had to see to believe, and even then it had an air of unreality to it, as though we had suddenly stumbled into a comedy performance or a bad television soap opera.
     People stood around in incredulous silence for a few minutes before normality returned and everyday life started itself up again; shoppers began shopping, talkers began talking, walkers began walking, and the poor man in the blue Volvo finally plucked up the courage to finish what he had started and park his car.

As for the star of the spectacle herself, I have no idea where she went, having melted away into the crowds.
     I think it's fair to say, however, given the evidence, that farce and mayhem will have followed not far behind her...

Alice x