Grand Designs
A few years back, wife and I used to live in that London.
Grand Designs had shown a project that had taken place just down the road from us. Forgot about it for a while, then when walking home from the tube along the main road one evening, we remembered said programme and decided to have a look for it to see what all the fuss was about. We were gawping at it from a distance, end of the road and over the main road, opposite side. Yes, nice house, not much to get excited about.
Not the wife. She couldn't stop looking at it, walking and talking away, and smack. Face side-on into a parking meter with an almighty crack.
I almost pissed myself as she's reeling all over the pavement with a slight concussion (maybe). I wasn't the only person laughing either.
Cafe full of people saw the delights! Also the passing bus and cars, plus the staff inside the hardware store behind us.
We've since looked at the parking meter on google street map and still laugh at the wife's inability to pay any attention to anything, ever.
(Slipper I'm going for a smoke, Thu 21 Jan 2010, 14:05, Reply)