I broke down in Bury yesterday, on the main road into the centre - in the bus lane side.
Well not entirely broke down - but there was steam coming from the engine compartment and we wanted to investigate why.
So rather than become an obstruction I pulled into a little used junction/entrance to a building.
Then thinking better of it pulled onto the extra wide pavement so I could work on the engine.
There was still room for a pram to get down the side.
WHile I was undoing spark plugs & my wife was handing something to me a cyclist came
up behind us and asked to get by, my wife was taken by surprise & stood back further in his way (no horn etc).
He slipped on his pedal & started swearing, aslo muttering about being parked on the pavement.
So she told him to FO DH... he should not have been cycling on the pavement in the first place
as there is a bus & cyclist lane on that road.
I told him that we were not parked - we were broken down.
There was no need for the abuse, so in some ways I can agree with Jaysay.
However I'm sure that he will now twist what I said to his own means
