The Milk Float

[Richard Bates]

There I was, locking the gate after driving the c*r out of the garage, when I heard a milk float
approaching. Excellent, I thought, I need to pay the milkman. So I wandered out on to the payment,
wallet in hand, only to see no sign of a deliveryman anywhere.

All I could see was a middle-aged woman riding an electric bike on the pavement, with a fag
in her hand.

Which reminds me of my next moan (I'm tired and fancy moaning). There seems to be an exponential
growth of those electric scooters (the ones that look like jet-skis on wheels). I cannot believe
that 100% of the users actually need them. I'm sure in many cases it is just an extension of
their laziness.

Moan over.

Love and legs from Rich x

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[Tony W]

"Richard Bates" <SPAM.TRAP.put.only.the.word.richard.before.the.at.sign@cuddle.clara.co.uk> wrote in
>
> Which reminds me of my next moan (I'm tired and fancy moaning). There seems to be an exponential
> growth of those electric scooters (the ones that look like jet-skis on wheels). I cannot believe
> that 100% of the users actually need them. I'm sure in many cases it is just an extension of their
> laziness.

You may be right. A surprising number of users do look quite sprightly when they climb off of their
infernal machines. To some extent these things seem to be becoming a bit of a fashion accessory
amongst the crumblies. However, the majority of users are elderly and while they might be able to
walk to the shops these things certainly provide increased mobility. If they are used (abused??) by
a few then the positive benefit they provide to the many more than makes up IMHO. I know that in her
last years my Mum found the mile walk from our parking place to her seat in a well known football
ground (or, more particularly, the walk back once cold and up hill) increasingly difficult because
of her arthritis.

Its a bit of a dilemma. The old dears might be better off with the exercise that walking would
provide -- but only they know how much discomfort they are in. Its hardly for us to tell them
they can't.

[Pauline]

"Richard Bates" <SPAM.TRAP.put.only.the.word.richard.before.the.at.sign@cuddle.clara.co.uk> wrote in
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> Which reminds me of my next moan (I'm tired and fancy moaning). There seems to be an exponential
> growth of those electric scooters (the ones that look like jet-skis on wheels). I cannot believe
> that 100% of the users actually need them. I'm sure in many cases it is just an extension of their
> laziness.
>

I was reading a mag called 'Personal Trainer for Women' in WHS yesterday contemplating purchase when
I saw the compettion prize : an electric scooter. Does up to 10mph for 6 miles. Suggested use for
said scooter was going to the gym. WTF?? Realised mag was not for me.

[Simon Brooke]

"Tony W" <tonyREMOVE@chapmore.co.uk> writes:

> Its a bit of a dilemma. The old dears might be better off with the exercise that walking would
> provide -- but only they know how much discomfort they are in. Its hardly for us to tell them
> they can't.

But (thinking of my own mother, now deceased), if they don't take the exercise their condition
progressively deteriorates and their discomfort increases.

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[Tony W]

"Simon Brooke" <simon@jasmine.org.uk> wrote in message
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>
> But (thinking of my own mother, now deceased), if they don't take the exercise their condition
> progressively deteriorates and their discomfort increases.

Absolutely. I did have a version of my post that said mush the same -- but I couldn't express my
thoughts succinctly.

I was beginning to think that I would have to consider alternatives to having Mum walk her couple of
miles on football days as it was clearly beginning to get too much for her but feeling I didn't want
her to reduce all exercise when a different problem (cancer) struck and change was forced on her.

T