I can hardly believe this pic is true. However as I walked to my local superstore today I remembered telling an African friend of mine that our pavements [sidewalks] are empty and the roads are full.Currently in the lands of the West everyone travels everywhere by car except at week ends when they don green clothes and superb walking footwear to roam the hills and vales of our green and pleasant land.
In their rucksacs is camera equipment and lunch. They are better equipped than Sherpa Tensing Gatso was on the top of Everest!
Often they take SatNav kit so they know to the centimetre just where they are in the world.
It seems odd that these folks would deem it totally outrageous if someone were to suggest that they walk to their shops fill their rucksacs with groceries and then walk home.
My local gym has a huge carpark. Its clients lock their cars,change into running strip and spend hours running on a conveyor belt, or pedal furiously on the cycling machine.
Why not walk or bike down to the gym in the first place ~ possibly if they did they~ would'nt need to go there in the first place!
Times are a-changing - the buses are filling up these days as the high cost of fuel takes it out of reach of Joe Public [John/Jane Doe]
