Don't keep me waiting!

Sometimes you leave work and it's a sunny day and you're very happy to be on the way home and you need a really uplifting song to start the journey. Anyway that is where the cod Motown (can you even say cod Motown?)of Sharleen Spiteri's album 'Melody' comes in. If I am honest with you I don't actually own the album anymore, but I am still in posession of the standout track - Don't Keep Me Waiting. I first heard DKMW on one of the latter (for latter read shitter) series of the L-Word in a club scene. It's a bloody good song, and I sing along unashamedly as I ride down the hill into Leicester.

In fact, the carefreeness of the song has even paid musical tribute to the caution to the wind action that was - gasp - me leaving my helmet at home. Jesus girl what next, bicycle clips off a cliff top? One handed along Glenfield Road?

Anyway, so there I am, Spiteri-ing my way into town (in fact I wasn't even going home thinking about it, I was just cycling from one job to another, that's how good this song makes you feel kids!) and then I see someone I know and I have to stop and talk to them (Cue that noise where the needle scratches right across the record causing jollity to come to a shuddering halt).

Small talk ensues, and that's when I notice - SHE IS MY BIKE HELMET TWIN. Bike helmets are bad enough, without having the same one as someone else, and thus drawing even more attention to it. This isn't like Jennifer Lopez and Gwyneth Paltrow both turning up at the Oscars with the same dress on, it's like Jen and Gwyn both tripping up the red carpet and sporting matching chin grazes for a week or two. Maybe the bike helmet twin thing wouldn't annoy me too much if I hadn't recently acquired a BIKE TWIN (yes that's someone who bought exactly the same bike as me). I was a bit gutted about that as I love my bike - that's a bit moe like the dress at the Oscars thing!

So anyway, I cycle off, Spiteri has been skipped for something far more appropriate like Jack Johnson and I invent reasons I need to buy a new bike helmet...