I HAVE come to the conclusion that people are afraid of using their common sense because they are not sure if there is a health and safety issue afoot.

Take for instance my drive into work this week. A bus tries to turn into a side street but a lorry delivering beer into a local pub is parked on the left.

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The bus cannot continue on the path because the gap between the lorry and the plastic red dividers is not wide enough.

Now, the easiest and most simple thing to do would be to push the red dividers so the bus has enough room to squeeze through.

A couple of workmen are stood around watching this whole episode take place. Now they could certainly have used their common sense and moved the plastic barriers but didn’t. They stood around watching.

For someone who is in a car behind the bus this is even more infuriating.

You want to say: “Move the barriers and let the bus go through.” However you don’t in case there is a reason why the barriers have not been moved.

But then you realise there is no reason and people are simply not using their common sense.

The point is we have become obsessed with not doing anything that is not our job. You hear this all the time,”I can’t do that – it is not part of my job responsibility”.

If it makes sense just do it is my view.

Eventually the barriers were moved a foot to the right after some smart Alec figured there was a queue of traffic behind the bus.

THIS weekend is a festival weekend in Blackburn. Now, in 2013 at the Health Mela at Corporation Park I was on traffic duty. I am not sure what they have planned for me this year but I do hope they have a litter monitor. I can do that.

AND at Witton Park we have the age old kabaddi tournament. Kabaddi is a sport which originated in South Asia and sees two teams try to outwit each other in a game of tag. This though is the most interesting part of the game.

Players look to slap an opponent in the face before making a run for it.

This makes for good viewing but not when there is a lightly bigger fellow and leaner fellow competing. Then it just looks like an unfair fight.