Things seen on the way to work

[ewx]

1. A little step with wheels that fits onto back of a pram. Child #1 stands on the step, child #2 lies in the pram, parent pushes the whole lot around.

2. A pelican crossing showing both red and green to traffic. I wish I'd had my camera with me.

Comments

[lnr]

I stopped and phoned the 0800 number to report 2) as faulty. Definitely very bizarre. Watching it through a couple of cycles it seemed to go red+green, red+amber, red, flashing amber or red+flashing amber, repeat.

The woman on the phone sounded very surprised too when I described red+green!

[aldabra]

1 is a buggy board, and I think a better deal for the kids than the parent (and, horrifyingly, costs about £40). You can fake a pic of 2 with long exposure.

fake a pic

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Or by taking two photographs differing only in time and copying bits from one to the other; which would allow you to have moving objects in shot. But I'd have liked the opportunity to take a real one.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

The more expensive and sometimes more eye-catching option is one of those dual-stacked buggies - the kind where toddler sits and baby is apparently slung in the luggage compartment as an afterthought is particularly startling first time you spot one!

[baljemmett.livejournal.com]

One could venture the suggestion that 2 is also a buggy board, but not in quite the same way!

[geekette8.livejournal.com]

Argh! That's even worse than anything I could have come up with! *bows at your feet*

[sidheag.livejournal.com]

[thinks for several seconds] [penny drops] [snort!]

[baljemmett.livejournal.com]

Well, I try my best... *grin*

[chess]

In fact, the first thing I thought of when I read "is a buggy board" was that it was referring to the lights.

[crazyscot.livejournal.com]

Where is this whacked-out crossing, and what did it have for breakfast...?

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Arbury Road, between Arbury Court and the school.

[liv]

When we were kids, my mother used to push all four of us in one pram. The two youngest lying head-to-tail in the main pram part, Screwy sitting on a seat fastened to the frame, and me curled up in the rack underneath that was meant for shopping bags and stuff. Mum got the most impressive muscles from pushing that overloaded thing up the hill (we didn't live in the flat fenlands at the time!).

[mtbc100.livejournal.com]

The most alarming Pelican crossing I saw in Cambridge had the lights covered by a canvas bag or somesuch, but if you pushed the button then eventually you'd still get a loud beeping. Somebody didn't like blind people!