EXT. - garden ?- Night....
I had a bit of an altercation last year. Road Rage believe it or not. (laughs) Me! Of all people... with my training.. anyway.. shows it can happen to the best of us... fact is I ended up racing a 17 year old. The judge was very fair in light of my previous good character and obviously I was relieved that he understood how much you need a licence in this job. Well, in the end, he let me go with a ticking off and a 200 pound fine - and a promise to attend a 'driving awareness course'.....
well, i went on this course last week and they did the most amazing thing. i mean you don't expect to be impressed by a 'driver awareness course' - but they showed this video...
there were five basket ball players dressed in white and five basketball players dressed in black. Each team had a ball and the course leader told you to watch and count how many times one of the teams passed the ball... At the end he goes around the room and sees who got it right.
Well, thank God, i got it exactly right - 47 times - me and the two policeman - we were the only ones - but then that's professional training - i have to get those things right... so do they..l especially the CID boys..
But that's not the point. The teacher - course leader bloke - then re-ran the video and just told us to watch without counting... just look, you know? WELL YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE IT! half way through the game, a giant pink rabbit walks into the middle of the pitch, stops, and waves at the camera for about 30 seconds - and then walks off. NOW. WOulD U BELIEVE IT? NOBODY... Not one of us even noticed. Naturally, I suspected it was a different film. But no. it was a video. The tape never came out of the TV and the TV got rewound after the first showing...
it got me thinking -
People often only see what they are looking for. And if I could miss a giant pink rabbit staring at me and waving for 30 seconds - what else might I be missing - you know?....
It just made me think...
(long pause) .. I really ought to prune those roses.
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3 comments:
I don't think he should have a race.
seems a bit to out of the ordanery.
may be he hit sometning driveing without dew care etc....
It was out of the ordinary - a catalyst no less---- ha ha ha ah ha a ha....
sorry i ment out of character.
only at the time i couldn't be arsed to look it up to see how to spell it.(wellcome to my world)
also if he is looking at a film in 'driver awareness course' how dose that fit with
"30 miles an hour over the limit"
also I think the penaly for 30 mph over the limit may be highter that that even if he has been a "good" boy.
add to that the "through a shopping precinct" and it seems a bit to serious.
mybe get rid of that line. (through a shopping precinct) and it may be ok.
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