Why is it that, for even the shortest ride, if it’s raining, you still have to fully “gear up”? The questions is rhetorical, as I already know the answer, but it’s worth asking anyway.
Still without a car, I awoke this morning to the sound of rain on the roof and the prospect of a day’s work at a school quite close by to where I live. All through breakfast I kept looking at the sky, hoping the rain might clear before I had to set out. Fat chance. Instead, it got worse. So, struggle into the wet’s the overboots and so forth, just to ride about 7 kilometres. Hardly seems fair does it? And then, by the time I got half-way there, the rain started to clear and it was semi-blue sky when I pulled into the car park. Grrrr.
And why is it, he asks again, rhetorically, that car drivers drive faster when it’s raining than they do when it’s dry? And, why is it that the least EXPERIENCED drivers, who should be being the most cautious, are the ones who blaze past at 15-20 above the limit in the pouring rain in their little Korean buzz-boxes?
I’m sounding old, aren’t I?