Literally jumped up little napoleon
Nov. 22nd, 2005 07:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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.
* 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.
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Date: 2005-11-29 02:35 pm (UTC)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!" :)