In rural areas, where public transport is not great, these ride-along benches are cropping up all over the place. You take a seat and you wait until somebody stops and gives you a ride. It’s the refinement of the hitchhiking of old. Funnily enough, it’s mostly elderly people who take advantage of the offer, the ones that use to stick out their thumbs 50 years ago. The return benches are near shopping areas, village centres. or serviced bus stops near by.

One Word Sunday: Stop