Rough Going

The other day Mrs H and I were perambulating around town when we found ourselves walking behind a chap on an electric mobility scooter. He was faster than we were, but had to keep slowing down because of rough stretches of pavement.

Eventually on a particularly rough section he noticed that we were behind him and waved us past. It’s not something I’d noticed before but some of our pavements are in such a poor state that they aren’t suited to mobility scooters.

I’d noticed the pavements of course, we walk on them all the time, wearing them out many years before the council is quite ready to patch them up again. I’m surprised it’s not a bigger issue, because the chap we saw couldn’t even maintain our walking pace. Admittedly that pace is fairly brisk, but electric mobility scooters are usually quicker.