The April Fool

Okay. It’s the old tradition. Play a practical joke before the afternoon on April 1st. In truth it never works on me, I have played too many practical jokes to play the victim.

I picked up the paper for lunch today, normal routine. Sport pages first. Main news next. Skip past the adverts, subconscious or not, there is no way I’ll fall for advertisers ploys to get me to buy something. Today was different though. A nice full length page advert from BMW. An interesting advert for once.

Do you know that they are banning right hand cars from mainland Europe in 2007? So how is that going to work? Well BMW have cleverly managed to get around this by developing a steering wheel less car, just a centrally mounted sensor driven system.

Just as I was thinking why I had not heard about this sort of technology before, or the legality of banning right hand drive vehicles, I realised that I had been got. I hold my hands up to the Times newspaper and BMV, very clever. You tricked me.

Who’s the fool now.