Double whammy this week
First was out with my Daughter in law on Saturday, raining and wet and I saw an elderly gent on a mobility scooter driving along the pavement outside the train station when he steered too close to the curb and both right side wheels went over the edge, he was tipping sideways fast, I legged it across the road and grabbed him to stop him falling, then lifted the front of the scooter back onto the pavement and guided him back to safety, at which point he said thanks and drove off only to do the same again.
Rinse and repeat the rescue and then discover he's trying to get over to the taxi rank as he and his wife have a taxi waiting for them, once she caught up she explained to him that he was heading for the wrong taxi and the one he wanted was down the dropped curb with the back ramp down
And the second was a charity run, one of the sites I cover for work used to do bike hire, but a few years ago it stopped doing it due to red tape and staff shortages, the bikes and all the kit to maintain and repair them have been stored in a barn since, I am fed up with watching them gather dust so spoke to my manager and we decided they could be rehomed, so today I took the bikes x 18 plus 1 tandem and a lot of accessories and equipment to a community project that restores and refurbishes pushbikes, they work with volunteers to teach them how to maintain the bikes and then they take the bike home, some of the restored bikes are sold in the shop section at a discounted price and the money is put back into the charity.
The aim is to stop bikes going to scrap and to get more bikes back into use, any bike that is not repairable is stripped for parts and the scrap money on the parts they can't use again goes back into the pot.
