STRAIGHT TALK: Leave the lollipop lady alone
Monday, 10.30am: Reporter Andrew Brookes says people should be ashamed of themselves for forcing lollipop lady Barbara Mayo to quit....
There are plenty of situations when getting angry is perfectly understable in my book.
My blood vessels bulge to bursting point when BT guarantee to fix my broadband and then don't, for example, or at my own uncanny knack of 'losing' my keys mere moments before I am due to leave the house.
Or people using a warped version of history to justify their own equally warped take on current affairs. (As soon as a comparison to Hitler or Stalin comes out of the bag someone has normally lost an argument and is groping for a desperate and woefully cheap point to score).
Or, most recently, Dean Windass' nonsensical punditry as my beloved Nottingham Forest slip solemnly toward another away defeat.
But when a lollipop lady tries to clear the way for a school crossing? I don't think so.
It's sad that Barbara Mayo feels she can no longer carry on donning the iconic hi-vis jacket to help Pinchbeck East Primary School pupils across Knight Street, but equally it is understandable that she wants to leave behind a role that leaves her in tears thanks to aggressive motormouth motorists.
What type of person fires a mouthful of bile at a lollipop lady? Do these same people roar at the mild-mannered milkman, bellow at the perky postie and abuse demure dinner ladies?
Ok, those are crude stereotypes, but seriously if some people feel fit to fire off a torrent of expletives in the direction of a lollipop lady then they have got a serious problem.
Is it really too much to ask to park a little bit further and, and this is obviously a radical suggestion these days, walk to that spot?
I hope they are utterly ashamed that Barbara has had to quit and give the next incumbent a break. Maybe the little white line finally painted by highways officers will make the situation clearer. If not then maybe the threat of a whack with the lollipop would shut them up?
If any of those drivers is reading and wants to re-direct their pent up frustrations then stick on Sky Sports News this Saturday and let your emotions loose in the direction of the goggle box as goold-old Deano gets his tongue tied around the likes of "Hugo Colace", "Radoslaw Majewski" or even turns his back to the camera to watch "nothing happening".
It doesn't make up for the grim news being delivered but it does the trick for me...
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