Jane Downing
/It Won't Go Round
It wasn't half a problem for housewife JANE DOWNING, who wanted to get from here to there without wasting time and when her only available transport was a junior two-wheeler.
Hitching up in her mini, Jane rode like the dappers, as they say. Something twanged on the crest of the hill and it wasn't a simple suspender. It was something highly mechanical. The bike pitched to a halt and Jane fell off.
"What a silly old stupid old front wheel," she said after five minutes of poking it and thumping it, "it won't go round."
However, a passing motorist pulled up and offered her a lift. Jane would have gratefully accepted, only he had a great big dog with huge teeth in the back of the car, so she said no, she'd wait for the bus.
That's Jane doing her waiting stint. She stopped all the traffic, not just the bus.