Traffic jams
I hate anything which delays me getting somewhere but, more specifically, 50 mph speed restrictions bother me. Going up and down all the time on the motorway, there’s one that’s between Durham and Wetherby services that must add hours on to the journey. It’s the fact I have to do it every single week, every single time we travel to play away from home.
TCP verdict: Jam is only good between two slices of cake, and certainly not on tarmac. We’d bring them to a standstill in Room 101.
People chewing with their mouths open
You’re sitting there, just trying to enjoy your meal and in the background you can see someone’s food in their mouth or hear them chewing their food as they are eating it.
You can’t concentrate on your own food. It happens far too often in any restaurant whether it’s a fancy one or not. In fact sometimes it’s worse when you’re having a quick bite to eat and you want to get in and out without distraction!
TCP verdict: We can’t stomach this one either, though there are those who aren’t entirely innocent at TCP Towers. In it goes.
Playing cricket in beanie hats
You see it from just about every other team nowadays. We all know it’s cold, everyone knows it’s cold but it just looks wrong on a cricket pitch to see someone wearing a beanie. We don’t even need to wear them, we’ve all got enough jumpers on to cope with the weather. None of my teammates do it because up in Durham I’m not sure it would go down too well!
TCP verdict: If you lads up in the North East can brave the chill without wearing headgear then I think we all can. Congratulations, Calum, that’s a rare three out of three.
This piece originally featured in The Cricket Paper, Friday June 10 2016
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