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A Simple Mistake
Going to Work
As you all know I do market research surveys to get me out of the house. Depending on the week, I will work 2–3 days, and each of these days I actually work about 6 hours. It gets me out of the house and meeting people. It does wonders for my mental health.
This week I had to visit specific houses for the survey I am doing, which is great as I don’t have to do as much walking as I normally do. Walking has become steadily more difficult, and I have become used to being in the very slow lane when it comes to ambulatory swiftness. So it was with delight that I drove into the driveway of a house in rural Ireland. It was a very steep driveway, but drivable. If I was walking I would have avoided it like the zombie plague, and the ascent would have proven impossible.
The homeowner was not there, so I got back in my car, ready to head off to the next house. With my eagle eye, I noticed a laneway leading down the hill to another road. I check on Google Maps and it looked like I would be fine. I would avoid having to drive up the hill. My brain still had not fully registered that I was driving, and not walking.
And so it starts
So I started down this track, and it gradually became steeper, and narrower. The surface was no longer the embedded stones of an often travelled route. It was…
