I was driving along this morning in peak hour traffic, approaching some road works, when I noticed some bearded bloke in a hi-vis vest standing next to a speed sign pointing to it. He had caught my eye as I drove along and I wondered to myself “what the hell is he doing?” As I got closer and continued to look at him (dangerously ignoring traffic in front of me) and I noticed he was a road worker. We had found ourselves in a nice little stare down contest.

As I leveled up with him he started flailing his arms around like some sort of moron, pointing at the sign and shouting at me. I finally figured out that he wanted me to slow down to the posted 50 km/hr for his precious road worker colleagues. Fair enough too, I looked down and saw my speed was a staggering 53 km/hr (pre breaking). I am rather impressed at this moron’s built-in radar at being able to pick a car that is doing a massive 3 km/hr over the speed limit.

As I continued through the road works I was interested to see no other workers on site. Had they been working their lives would have been saved by this heroic act. A selfless road worker clearly on his day off standing at a road sign pointing out the sins of his fellow man, capital work there old chap.

I hope he is there again tomorrow…..