Today I found the perfect use for it - much more useful than as a broom handle.
Remove rubber tip from redundant walking stick and jam over the end of the hand grip. Cut hazel fork (as in extremely short thumb-stick) from hedge and trim to fit tightly in the plastic thread.
Now instead of fighting to jam a broom between driver's seat and brake pedal:
- the forked end goes under steering wheel rim at the 6 o'clock position,
extend the shaft so that rubber tipped end is on brake pedal, but don't lock
press pedal down hard with heel and hold it down by locking the shaft.