15 Problems Only People From Stoke-On-Trent Will Understand
10. It's Often Quicker To Walk Than Drive
Stoke-on-Trent is blessed with a vast number of easy-to-use roundabouts and a carefully planned one-way system that making driving in the city an unbridled pleasure. Of course, that sentence was pure sarcasm. There's nothing a driver likes more than to be sucked into a one-way system that forces him to drive a mile to get to the next street that was only fifty feet away in the first place. And the three mini-roundabouts in a row in Smallthorne (the Devil's Islands, as they're known) are a constant cause of collisions. The icing on the rancid cake is that parking can be a nightmare too. With all these challenges facing drivers in Stoke-on-Trent, sometimes it's just easier and faster to walk.
Mike has lived in the UK, Japan and the USA. Currently, he is based in Iowa with his wife and 2 young children. After working for many years as a writer and editor for a large corporation, he is now a freelancer. He has been fortunate enough to contribute to many books on Doctor Who over the last 20 years and is now concentrating on original sci-fi & fantasy short stories, with recent sales including Flame Tree, Uffda, and The Martian Wave. Also, look for his contribution on Blake's 7 to "You and Who Else", a charity anthology to be released later this year.
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