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Thumbs up: has being risk-averse robbed us of a ride?

May 18, 2021May 18, 2021 by iankirkebc

Our thumbs are useful for gripping, allowing fingers to click and acknowledging when things are OK or not so good. I also remember it being used in an elegant metaphor for night shift town centre foot patrol when I was a copper in the then concrete jungle of Bracknell’s pedestrianised shopping centre in the early … Read more

Categories General, Humour, Risk, Travel Tags #hitchhiking, #travel

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