This is the long awaited (!) follow up to 'Jimmy's Green Van' published on 21, September, 2012.
Jimmy got his
revenge some time later. Lots of the boys at The Stair used to wait for the
Green Van to drive off and we would then leap onto the back steps of the
vehicle for a free hurl. He always drove about two hundred yards along Oxgangs
Avenue to his next stop. On one occasion it was only me who had quietly hopped
on-well blimey he must have seen me in the mirror and known it was me.
Instead
of stopping, he kept on driving along the Avenue. The van built up speed and was
soon travelling at 30 mph so I couldn't leap off. I was terrified! What would I
do? Very fortunately, when the van reached Greenbank, it struggled to maintain
the speed up the hill and slowed down. It was now or never, because at the top
of the hill it was all downhill to Morningside. With a ‘leap of faith’ I jumped
off backwards taking a quick pitter-patter step, the way we did getting off a
moving number 16 bus. I managed to stay upright. It was with great relief I’d absconded-I’d
escaped and was free to walk all the way home back to the safety of The Stair. I
had lived to fight another day and to enjoy further adventures.
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