The B3TA Detective AgencyUniversalpsykopath tugs our coat and says: Tell us about your feats of deduction and the little mysteries you've solved. Alternatively, tell us about the simple, everyday things that mystified you for far too long.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 12:52)
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I was riding the trusty Z400 twin back one Autumn evening along Gallery Road* in Dulwich......when I saw a pedestrian up ahead, walking slowly along the pavement on my side of the road. As I got closer, something wasn't triangulating correctly. My brain suddenly realised that the figure was walking on the spot. Chills crept up and down my spine. Panic nibbled at my toes.
As I drew alongside, I finally realised that I was observing the mist rising out of a storm drain. Mystery solved, and my underpants kept me warm all the way home. Win!
* Gallery Road runs between the roundabout in Dulwich Village, and the South Circular. Most traffic takes a different, more efficient, route. Out of all the roads in London that I've ever ridden (and that's a lot), Gallery Road, for some inexplicable reason, always felt odd, somehow magical even, to me. It doesn't feel like a road in the middle of busy South London, it feels like a country road from about 100 years ago. Try it. Even better, try it on a throbby old motorbike.
(, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 9:59, 1 reply)
That's true for the whole of Dulwich Dulwich, twinned with Stepford
/fellow Sarf Londoner
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Ghoti Fingers, Mon 17 Oct 2011, 19:16,
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