I was in Coleraine today, when I am driving I always like to listen to Radio Ulster for comedy value. It cracks me up; today's talkback was about 'the way we used to live'. How soft people have become with regards to taking risks in this day and age.
People like my Dad call in and tell everyone that the roads are grand and what is everyone complaining about. I picked my Dad because he commutes between Portadown and Derry/Londonderry. He's a graphic designer and can easily work from home as he did yesterday, but on days like this he gets in the car and drives to Stroke City so he can sneer at those who commute a few miles and don't make it in. He drives up the Western side of the Lough through Stewartstown/Moneymore/Tobermore and takes the country roads up to the Glenshane.
Anyway this bloke phones in from 'LONDON'derry as he put it, and says that all Roman Catholic kids stay at home in weather like this, whereas the protestant kids all have a strong work ethic and try their hardest to make it in through thick and thin. I kid you not, he was serious.
Another even funnier call came in, this woman calls in and says she left her ironing out on the doorstep in a bin bag this morning, to be collected by her ironing lady.
The bad news for her was that it was also the day the charity people were collecting their bags from doorsteps in her area. They drove off with hers...oh how I laughed!!