When not to wear a helmet

..to wear a helmet when walking or shopping, as these are statistically more hazardous than cycling.

I never wear one on the bike, but may start to when shopping from now on, you can't be too careful

I sometimes see a bloke in the Sainsbury's in Bath who walks the aisles wearing his helmet which has one of those little mirrors on a stalk sticking out of the side presumably so he has 360° bargain-vision…

I once got talking to him about it and he told me that he'd been wearing his lid by chance and been involved in a nasty collision with a shopping trolley down by the frozen food aisle and the doctors at the A&E had told him that it had almost definitely saved his life… very hard floors in Sainsburys etc etc… now mirror, signal, manouvre were his watch words when shopping although he'd had to cut the 'signal' bit out after a nasty incident when he'd inadvertantly poked a shelf stacker in the eye … okay, maybe I'm making this bit up, but I bet if I had spoken to him that's what he's have said.

Probably.