“Old People Mobiles”

Today, while sat on the bus, I saw an incredibly amusing sight.

There was an elderly woman travelling along on one of those golf cart-like old person transportation things. You know, the ones that go up the pavement incredibly slowly except every-so-often when you’ll see a daredevil old person who’ll be zooming along and you’ll think, “Whoa. That is who I want to be when I’m seventy”?

Anyway, what amused me was the size of this thing compared to her. She was a small old lady, barely three foot and pretty darn thin. The frailty of age wasn’t doing anything to help the image either. What she was travelling in though, was huge! An absolute beast of a thing, covered from top-to-tip with a large, see-through tarpaulin to keep out the sun, I’d assume…?

So, there she was, blocking up the whole pavement and half of the road with her monstrosity of a vehicle – I regret to say, she wasn’t being very much of a daredevil -  and I was just sat there, staring, and thinking, “Whoa. That is who I want to beat up when I’m seventy.”