I'm Richard Porter. I'm Johnny Smith. And this is Smith and Sniff, a podcast in which two

friends talk about cars and many other things.

Here's a motor sport that I've just discovered that I didn't know existed, which Instagram

offered me on a digital platter. Electric scooter, competitive electric scooter racing.

You know the ones that you can, you can borrow via app and go around cities and then discard

them in front of, I don't know, on pathways in front of old people.

Yeah, in a disabled parking, or locking the entrance to a library or something.

Or in a bus lane in Paris, which I saw once someone just put it down in a bus lane and

then just walked off and put their phone in their pocket.

He's thinking, so the bus is going to turn up any minute out, other trample it in rage

or...

Just extraordinary how people can be such sort of casual pricks, isn't it?

You just go, it doesn't. You take no more effort to leave it somewhere else.

No, no, no.

But no, no. Like people who just can't, I saw a car the other day, where it was taking

up two spaces because they parked so badly that they were sort of diagonal almost within

a space and it was encroaching into the space next to it.

And it was really far back, like it was about three feet back from the curb that delineated

the top of the space.

And I just thought, that's someone who's so terrible at driving and finds it's such a

chore, they just can't be asked.

They've just gone, oh, I hate turning the steering wheel, oh it's so annoying, I'm just going

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