Marin! Marin! Look! It's a Community Support Officer!!! You love those! Here is a little story about Marin and the CSOs.


One gravity-less day, Marin woke up. He cried over his lack of facial hair for a while and then got ready for college. He floated on down to the bus stop (cos gravity doesn't exist you know...) The bus appeared and stopped by his bus stop, but alas, the bus had broken down and was on fire!!! Marin decided he would walk to college.

Marin walked and walked and walked until his was nearing college. There was just one road left separating Marin from his destination! Marin glanced at his watch and realised that he was late, so he ran across the road! Suddenly he heard someone calling him.
"Excuse me! You! Stop!" Marin swiveled round where he was confronted by one of his favourite people ever! It was a Community Support Officer. Marin marvelled for a while at the brilliance of the man before asking what the problem was. It turns out that the CSO had been standing on the side of the road, watching as people crossed. The CSO then instructed those who hadn't crossed properly on how to do so.
"Young man," said the CSO (who was obviously just being kind the facial hair-less boy) "Do you realise that you did not follow the correct road traversing rules?" Marin was aware and he felt very ashamed.

"I'm sorry!" He wailed. "But I was late for college and I thought that it wouldn't hurt if I just ran across the road just this once!"
"Oh but it could have hurt!" pointed out the CSO. "You're just lucky that there were no vehicles around at the time. Now, let's go through the correct road crossing procedure together shall we? You stop, look and listen! Now you have to remember to look both ways. Why is that, young man?"
"Because traffic is coming from both directions?"
"Well done! Now, you'll never forget to cross the road safely will you?"
"Never!" Marin said. "Thank you, Mr CSO!"
"Ah that's my pleasure! Now off you go! I have more people to help get across that road!"
"Wow, you're so brave!"
"I know, I know! It's a dangerous job but someone has to do it! Safe crossing!" Marin waved goodbye to the CSO and went on his merry way.

The End

Just to brighten up Marin's day more, here are some more photos of CSOs.

Someone needs to tell these CSOs that the Green Cross Code adverts feature hedgehogs, not badgers.

And this one appears to have been relegated to the task of security guard at his local supermarket... better than being a glorified lollypop lady I suppose.

Oh and look what we have here! The

wonderful CSO bike!!! No criminal can get away from them now!!!

I'm gonna have to use photos to taunt Marin more often... It's fun. Toodles all!

Sorry, sorry, I made a mistake.

The previous post should read "men" not men.... as if Marin is proper!

Today I hung up on Marin after he repeated something which I had told him not to.... Men just don't learn do they?

I recommend that everyone tries hanging up on Marin... it's a very satisfying experience... even if he does phone back a minute later...

Toodles all