Driving around the town for work I sometimes have days where the planets line up and all the 'eccentrics' come out blinking into the sunlight. An old biddy on a disability buggy 4×4 on steroids ambling down the inside lane of the 689 approaching the Tesco roundabout with a line of traffic the length of a carnival parade, then causing utter chaos by deciding to move into the outside lane oblivious to the consequences of her kamikaze manouvere to turn right down Burn Road.
Later while getting out of the car I heard this wierd rumbling sound like a tank on cobbles when two lads appeared on mountain bikes while each towed a lawn mower behind them, the leader doing it hands free as he was on his phone at the same time, he should have been in the circus with that level of co-ordinaion. I thought, had they nicked them...? or was lawn mower towing racing the latest fad to hit the streets...?
My final eye opener was a scarecrow lookalike on a bike on Catcote Road, carrying what looked like a scaffolding board under his left arm, a finely tuned balancing act that was doomed to disaster.
I think a helicopter may be a safer option soon.

....................and every now and again, convoys of pony and traps, some driven by young kids parading along past Asda causing gridlock. Madness.

I spotted a woman, clearly in her 50's, travelling home from work on a kids micro scooter a few weeks back.

I was driving past the Seagull Pub towards Hartlepool earlier in the week when an elderly couple on mobility scooters pulled straight out in front of me from the caravan site junction, then headed up the road towards on-coming traffic as if they owned the fuppin road, no stopping at the junction to look, nowt, both smoking fags. A bloke at the bus-stop was laughing his head off.
It's basically like giving your car keys to five year -olds.

I went for a couple of late night Big Macs last night on Marina and was puzzled as to why all the chavs in their Mams Corsas were bombing through the bingo car park then I realised they can avoid the ridiculously oversized speed bumps by cutting through the bingo car park, wont be long before an old biddy is knocked over.

I realise mobility scooters are a boon for a lot of people but some of them seem to have bought the version that comes with of a sense of entitlement. An old biddy in the village I lived in the UK used to charge full speed along the pavement, honk people to get out of her way, and scold them as she passed for being in her way in the first place.

Round here you get a mixture of youths on 'roadworthy' quad bikes, huge pelotons of elderly cyclists and obese chain smokers on mobility chariots. And pedestrians who just like walking up the road no matter how good the pavement might be. Virtually impossible to drive anywhere at speed without killing a few people.

i saw a bloke in a 4x4 pulling a trailer down west view road today,well i say trailer,you would have been hard pushed to get 6 cans of lager in it,it was that small