He managed to run a few metres before falling over.
And along with Lilac and Lilybelle, he manages to run a dessert business in Berkeley Heights.
But for all his considerably dubious woo-woo, you can't discount a guy who has managed to run a retail company that flourished even in the recession.
One young woman had somehow managed to run a tiny shop down a black side tunnel, selling biscuits, and, astonishingly, put herself through a degree in business administration.
To the popular cry, "They are all the same", Mr Bayrou seems to be claiming: "Except me!"How he would ever manage to run a stable government is another matter.
Yet he managed to run a remarkably disciplined and gaffe-free campaign.Mr Rudd, by contrast, struggled to win voters' confidence, even though the Labor government had chalked up notable achievements.
The two became friends and shared a flat in West Hampstead, where Alan managed to run a mini-cab service and teach what might now be called cognitive behaviour therapy in the gaps between travelling and writing restaurant reports.
More damagingly, even on routes where conductors are still deemed essential, Southern managed to run a service that, while poor, was only slightly poorer than in the weeks before the strike.
During the few minutes that he was gone, the two women managed to run a bath, dim the lights, turn up the heat, turn on the television, examine the delivery menus from local restaurants, test the light switches at the head of the bed, and check the contents of the minibar.
It is little wonder, then, that while Britain ran a whopping £120bn budget deficit in 2012-13, the Germans managed to run a small surplus - as they have done so often in recent years.
