December 01, 2007
Trusting Mick
Why do we trust 'Mick on the M4'? He tells us there's a 5 mile queue near Swindon, and we believe him. But who is he? He's a bloke with a mobile ringing a traffic hotline. But from where does his authority come? Is he really trapped in traffic near Swindon? Or is he sitting at home with his hot chocolate, a little lonely tonight.
'I had my name on national radio,' he thinks to himself, as he turns out the light on a day spent exclusively in Kent.
Its called democracy. We believe people. We never learn.
Posted by Mr Bojangles at December 1, 2007 01:31 PM
Comments
Aha! This must be where the inspiration for the CT article came from! Good thought!
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Posted by: Anne Brooke at December 15, 2007 08:47 AM
What use is it when you are already sat in the M4 in a queue of traffic anyway? By the time the message has got through on the radio the jam probably stretches all the way to Bath. Well at least that was my experience as a drove past the last exit before Chiswick to be informed by the woman on Radio 5 that traffic was queueing on the M4/ A4 into London all the way to Chiswick.
Posted by: Anna at December 3, 2007 09:00 PM