THE FINAL JBR.
This is the last one as there is nothing else left to tell from this trip.
I always hire a scooter, It's very convenient, I can nick down to the market before dawn, deliver whatever tucker I buy to differant friends in Tanjung, Sangawan or Nusa, have a coppi bali with them and then take the kids to school. I love it cos I see more people out and about early than I do if I go to the shops at home. Herself, however has been niggling away recently that I should give the scooter riding away and keeps saying " One of these days." Of course you know how it is. " Not me love I don't go fast enough or anywhere where I will get into strife." Well, you guessed it folks. I'm stationery outside the Grand Mirage, stationary, behind a car, both feet on the ground, waiting for a Pariwasata omnibus to get through a narrow gap in the traffic. The bus comes by and the car in front takes off and I follow.
I'm just moving off, both feet on the scooter when this peanut on a scooter goes by at a fair old rate and clips my front wheel. I was off and on the ground, funny the sound a crash helmet makes when it's sliding over the road, the skin coming off doesn't make a sound, the scooter sliding away does but continues to tick over. The peanut has gone after a fair old wobble but doesn't come off or stop. The Mongrel. Pick the scooter up, straight back on, back to the hotel, park it and straight back up to the room to herself." Get the shower on love." Did it bloody sting, skin off toes, ankle,leg, knee and thigh and a painful bollocking from herself. Down to the resident nurse with herself, and let me tell you that the nurse is a looker, in fact she is attractive, mature, sensous and desirable. I'm down to my bathers on the patients bed thoroughly being taken care of and nursed with herself looking on. Everything is fully cleansed, the tarmac has been dug out with tweezers and I am stinging on all my wounds. You gotta bring a sense of humour into these things and there was only my thigh left to attend to so I said to herself, " OK love you can go now." and I said to the nurse. " When she's gone get those rubber gloves off." Nothing broken apart from my pride, everything scabbing up nicely, no problems apart from the fact that I am going to be down sized to a Gopher.