I got knocked off my bike this morning. I'm fine. The bike wasn't, but the car driver gave me a wodge of cash, which I gave to the bike shop, and the bike now has a shiny new wheel.
The driver also arranged for her husband to pick me up from work and take me and the broken bike home again. He had a van, which was handy. But it smelt of wee.
I was intrigued by this wee-smellingness. Why did his van smell of wee? Was he incontinent? Did he know someone who was? Was he an alcoholic? Was he in the habit of giving lifts to random smelly strangers? Or maybe...
What if he and his wife were Manchester's answer to Fred and Rosemary West? She lies in wait on side roads, waiting for women cycling to work. She drives into them, slowly and gently, careful not to harm them. She gives them money, then arranges for her husband to pick them up later in his van. He wouldn't really take me home at all. He would take a sudden wrong turning and drive me to his house, or one of those desolate industrial wastegrounds of which there are so many, and then he would do horrible things, so horrible I would piss myself in fright.
He didn't though. He took me home, and was blessedly silent throughout. We listened to the radio. And smelt the wee.
Sometimes you need to let go
1 day ago
3 comments:
Horrid being knocked off your bike, so glad you're OK.
I shuddered reading that, imagining. Maybe he'd recently given his incontinent mother a lift?
Glad you're ok though :o)
Oh, narrow escape - on all levels. Relieved to hear you're ok.
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