Nothing spectacular to report

I think I saw my first ever example of Road Rage on the weekend. I was returning from Reading after picking up a great little three-man tent courtesy of the marvellous Freecycle organisation and upon driving down the A4 I heard a car horn sounding behind me. 

There’s a dodgy little roundabout where if you get caught in the inside lane you have to try to get over into the outside lane if you want to go straight on and basically this is what had happened to a car behind me who was trying to get into the outside lane and this had obviously annoyed the heck out of the block behind him who was giving him a big old blast on the old horn. The thing is as far as I could see there was more than enough room for this chap to pull over and he was in no way either trying to jump a couple of places in the queue or was cutting the other bloke up. So in answer to the man’s incessant beeping he waved out of the window. Now when I say waved I mean he actually did wave, in a sort of “ok I see you there but c’mon no need for that” type of fashion, and if you consider he was wearing driving gloves he didn’t really cut the usual figure of a loutish road-hog.  So the bloke behind him now decides to give him a special wave back except this one consisted of a loosely curls fist being moved back and forth. 

Needless to say when, at the next set of traffic lights, they drew up next to each other the feathers started to fly. Now both of these boy racers must have been at least the wrong side of sixty but that didn’t stop them winding their windows down and having the finger waging face-off of all time. My only real concern was that one of them was going to keel over clutching his chest as any minute gasping for air. 

It all ended when one of them turned into Aldi but not before I’d shook my head sagely and tutted. 

Any regular visitors will know that I am a fan and big time visitor to Wikipedia. I currently base all my knowledge on the pages within even though I’ve found out how bloody easy it is to edit the stuff on there. So anyway I’ve now started to create and edit some of the articles on the site and it’s all rather good fun. The surprising thing is that you can find articles about some of the most obscure things out there and yet other subjects you expect to find aren’t there at all. So imagine my surprise when I discovered that there wasn’t an article for my boyhood footballing star, the ginger permed wonder, Ian Wallace, and now after some nifty writing there it! Whoo Hoo!