DRIVER OR PEDESTRIAN I
‘m always a bit alarmed to find that, when I’m driving a car, I’m a totally different person from when I’m being just a mere pedestrian. I mean, whenever I find myself at the wheel of a car, pedestrians always seem to me to consist largely of imbeciles and half-wits, who go barging off the pavement right under my front wheels without ever looking to see if there’s anything coming, who go wandering about on the wrong side of the road, and generally getting in the way. Their one aim in life seems to be to make things just as difficult as they can for the poor, harassed motorist. Mind you, I’m not saying they are like that: I’m only saying that’s what they seem like when you’re driving a car. But — this is the funny thing — when I’m one of the pedestrians myself it always seems as if it’s the people who drive motor-cars who are the…
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