Tuesday, January 27
After posting that last blog entry, I went back to class. It wasn't long before I left however, there was nothing for me to do in college, I'd taken all the photos I could in town, and my essay materials were at home. So it was home I left to go to, but via Morrisons first. I realised just as I was paying for my goods that I'd forgotten hot chocolate, the reason I went there originally. I went back to fetch it but the queues had doubled by the time I got back to the tills, and it took a while for me to manage to leave the store. I got outside to discover that over the road by the bus stop had gathered a large crowd, an ambulance and several police vehicles. I talked to one woman in the crowd, and then Mat from my photography class. It seems what happened was an old lady was crossing the road at a pelican crossing whilst the traffic light was green. I didn't ask if it had just turned green or if she didn't see the traffic coming at her. A bus hit her, sent her flying about 10 feet up the road. I saw the windscreen, half of it was completely cracked, she really must have been hit with serious force. Mat said that her body crumpled and her face was a bloody mess. People in the crowd said the bus driver had seen her crossing but hadn't slowed down or swerved to miss her. They said that he was a bit of a twunt, had been saying to people on the bus earlier that if they didn't have any change smaller than £1 that they wouldn't be getting on the bus. The road looked like it might be blocked for some time and there wasn't anything I could do so I left to get a bus on a different route, grateful I'd had to go back for the hot chocolate or I might have seen it all happen, or even have been hit as well.
On a happier note, I was sent to
World Wide Words, a site full of information about English as a language. The bit I love best is the
weird words section. It's full of fantastic, strange words like flibbertigibbet, rhinotillexomania, zenzizenzizenzic, floccinaucinihilipilification and mallemaroking, which is the word used to identify the carousing of seamen on board Greenland whaling ships.
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