Just a mid-week gripe from me, I am not sure if it is only the case in my home town or if it is common throughout the UK but are all lollipop ladies overweight and slow? On my regular route to work, I have to travel past a school where one of these overweight lollipop ladies patrols. The queue of traffic is quite extensive but it is all down to the slow speed of this large yellow barrel!! She waddles into the middle of the road and before she has even signalled for the traffic to stop the parents and their children have already crossed to the other side. The traffic still cannot move until this horrible yellow blob has moved out of the way but she does it in such an unbelievably slow pace that by the time she has reached the kerbside another parent is there waiting to cross.

Yesterday I decided to take another route that I haven’t used in some time. To my horror I thought the overweight, slow and tedious lollipop lady had been given a new crossing to patrol on the very same morning I had changed routes but no… It was a different lollipop lady, just as large as the other but my god; she was even slower than the other one. I have nothing against large women but what I do object to are the large ones who are lazy and slow with it.