All hail Jon Gowing
Lorry driver and all round top fucking bloke Jon Gowing is nourishing the people of the A1 with pasties, cakes and doughnuts from his Greggs truck as they sit stranded on the motorway.
Jon, who is of course from Leeds, was given permission to distribute the stock among motorists unable to continue their journeys because of the inclement weather.
Mechanical engineer Les Goff from Leeds was also stuck and helped driver Mr Gowing to share them out.
Mr Goff, who is also guitar tech with the Pigeon Detectives, was travelling home from Edinburgh when he got stuck.
Round of applause required for the @GreggsOfficial delivery driver that sorted out free cakes for my mate and all the other poor buggers stuck in snow on the A1 today 👏👏👏 pic.twitter.com/vwLYvyfTFH
— Matt Bowman 🐦🔍 (@PIGEON_MATT) March 1, 2018
Speaking on Heart radio from the Lindisfarne Inn on the A1 he said: “The traffic had been stopped for a couple of hours so I went for a walk for a couple of miles to see if I could help, but I still couldn’t see the start of the queue.
“I was walking back down the hill when I saw the Greggs guy at the back with the tail-lift and he just said ‘Do you want some cakes’?
“He asked me to take some to the other drivers and he walked up the traffic and I walked down the traffic with doughnuts, vanilla slices and cakes, handing them out.
“He was a top guy. He said if he hadn’t delivered them by a certain time, they would go to waste.
“Obviously it was freezing, I couldn’t feel my fingers and toes as I was walking along with this tray of cakes.”
Roisin Currie, people and retail director at Greggs, said: “We are incredibly proud of Jon and his act of kindness in what must have been a very tough situation for him and all the other poor people stuck on the A1 in this cold weather.
“We hope that his kind gesture was able to help make everyone’s day a little bit better.
“Well done again Jon, a shining example of how we do things at Greggs.”
All that is gold does not glitter.
