Literally jumped up little napoleon

[jack]

* We had the science park fun run for some charity or other. The inner lane of the big circle was coned off. About thirty of us were pressed into service as marshalls to direct traffic from all the drives into the outer one, in the correct direction, dressed in stylish yellow neon binbags.
* We had to balance on one leg in a crane kick stance on the cone, directing cars with one arm and runners with the other.
* An hour's delay while a lorry went round setting out the cones.
* Lots of (or maybe one or two several times) guys in Terry Wogan masks
* A poor french driver who'd grasped "turn right" but not "on the outer lane." But it was fine.
* A pirate ship cum canoe cum eight.
* People all obeyed. There's no real mechanism for seeing if some guy in a yellow jacket is for real or not.
* I was describing this to someone else, and they said "Oh, you were literally" directing traffic.

Comments

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

*collapses laughing at mental picture of cartesiandaemon balancing on one leg while standing on a traffic cone*

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

:) That was the desired effect.

[bouteillebleu.livejournal.com]

Wow, there was a fun run at the Science Park today? Shows how much I notice of the world outside my office window. (All few millimetres I can see through the blinds. :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, you do work near here, don't you? We should meet for lunch one day.

And perhaps, but then it didn't seem to be advertised very much apart from word of mouth round companies with people involved.

[new-brunette.livejournal.com]

http://www.livejournal.com/users/new_brunette/205564.html

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Wow, there really *were* a lot of masks. I thought I was exagarating :) Thanks.

[new-brunette.livejournal.com]

The Terrys were the best, I thought, although the Narnia one was quite funny, too.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm not sure I remember that. Which should be impossible...

[new-brunette.livejournal.com]

This lot, in fact:

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. No. Maybe they didn't make it??

I do remember seeing people from work coming past in a pirate ship/rowing boat, and calling defensively "Well, at least we're going faster than the wardrobe!" :)