I had the wonderful experience a few weeks back of being shouted at by a young man from his Nissan Micra.

"Wonderful?" you enquire, in the slightly-longer-than-comfortable silence after that statement.

"Yes!" I reply, content that my thinly disguised bait has been bitten.

Picture the scene: a few of my friends and I are strolling quite contentedly along the side of the road in a suburb on the outskirts of town. The birds are swaying, the trees are singing. We come to the main road, press the pedestrian button at the traffic light and wait for the little green man to bleep at us.

Just as it begins to do so, we hear a dull thump from over the crest in the road, then another, and another. Slowly, the whining treble overlay of today's repetitive pop fades in over the top, and a small, crimson Nissan climbs over the hill, panting from the exertion. Inside are two shaven-headed men in their late teens to early twenties, shirtless and heavily tatooed. The air pumps itself full of drum machine.

They stop at the traffic lights as they turn red, and we cross in front of them, at this point only slightly scared for our lives. Their small, beady eyes follow us as we make our way, as inconspicously as it is possible to do so in a group of seven or eight, over the pathway of zebra stripes. No one utters a sound.

Suddenly, and completely without warning, the man in the passenger seat leans out of the wide open window, and screams a single, joyous exlamation, beer waving in the hot air:

"Swiss Family Robinson!"

Grinning, he ducks back into the car and, in a squeal of tyres, the car speeds away.

Wonderful.

Was that an insult? Was it a compliment? Was it the result of many hours of careful consideration, or was it completely on impulse? What does it even mean?

I have no idea, and somehow that makes the event that much more memorable and that much more enjoyable. Any world in which people spontaneously do things like that is a world which I am proud to inhabit. So thank you, whoever you were, for an intriguing experience.