I hate the way they create these overpasses instead of having cars stop. I’ve had to drag my pushchair and kid – in the sweaty afternoon heat – up those things many a time and have cursed those whizzing obliviously along below me.

You’d think in these days people would appreciate the fact that some people – even if they don’t want to – actually walk. Imagine… lower carbon emissions, fewer fools on the road to compete with. But no, the walking citizen is deemed about as unimportant and is treated with about as much respect as a cow grazing at the roadside.

Here in France – where the citizen is King – you walk onto the crossing in front of my child’s village school (and every other) in trepidation. They really, really won’t stop. I don’t know what it is about being behind the wheel of a car but somehow they assume that their car has the right of way.

GRRRRR!

I don’t know what the answer is but a little more appreciation and sensitivity about others would help ease the wheels of life along a bit more.