Jonola14

PORTSMOUTH

Picture this.

We were slowly crawling along the road in our green Renault Megane Coupe when we approached some traffic lights that had turned red. We were stopped in the outside lane, first in the queue, and there was a tall car in the slow lane to our left. Unfortunately, the road narrowed and there was no way both cars would have fit through the gap between the traffic lights, so when they turned green, we were forced to wait for the tall car to move off first and we would pull in behind it.

So the lights went green and we waited for the other car to move off. It stayed put. We tooted, but still the car refused to move. Eventually it did edge forward, but only inches at a time. ‘What’s the hold up?’ we were all thinking. ‘Why the hell aren’t you going?’

Then we saw why. There, just in front of the tall car, was the hold up.

It was a man wheeling a wheelbarrow containing five sacks of peat in the middle of a busy Portsmouth road junction.

Odd.