Tim Dowling: it seems the real moral of this story is that I’m easily led

When our street is closed for roadworks, I join in with the neighbours’ outrage. My wife, meanwhile, charms the man in the hard hat into reopening it

Early on Friday morning my wife finds me sitting in bed, looking at my phone. She is dressed already, and holding keys.

“They’re blocking off the whole road,” she says.

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