Beware the lollipop of Mediocrity - Lick it once and You'll Suck Forever.

I have been seeing a very worrying thing all too often lately. If you have one of these or if you've used one, please let me know how you feel about this blog.

 

 I keep seeing these cyclists with little baby-carriers trailing behind their bicycles. the carriers are flimsy little frame and fabric affairs, into which the parents entrust their offspring. The children sit in these little trailers, just inches above the road and mere inches away from the wheels and fenders of passing cars. Cars which weigh a tonne and which are travelling at far greater speeds than the bicycles they are passing. The child in the trailer is attached to the bicycle securely but if they fell out or were struck by a stone thrown up by a passing car, the parent on the bicycle simply wouldn't know.

 

 How can a parent put the most precious thing they have (presumably), in a tiny little fabric enclosure, so close to the road and exhaust fumes and tyres and stones and haul that precious thing around behind them in traffic?

 

 Is it just me? Does anyone else think this is horribly dangerous? Am I just overreacting?