I started up my daily walk routine again, and in an effort to avoid walking alongside busy roads, and to avoid crossing those busy roads too often, I tend to pound the residential streets close by. It’s boring, for sure, but I don’t need to get into the car at all, and I have an audiobook playing through my ear buds to keep my mind occupied.

The streets I use are quiet. I can walk hundreds of metres and not see a moving vehicle, except that is, when I want to cross one of those quiet streets.

Some days it seems like they lie in wait, and pounce when I position myself to leave the sidewalk. Like a London bus, you don’t see a moving vehicle for ages, then they appear, usually in packs. Today was one of those days, except that it was delivery trucks following me around. It was UPS and FedEx, and while I imagined fleets of those vans roaming the streets, because I walk in a fairly small area, it’s likely that it was the same UPS and the same FedEx van each time.

They have a job to do, and I don’t, so I’m not complaining about their presence, just that they only appear when I have to cross a road.

I just hope that none of these vehicles is called Christine…