Why can't people make allowances for the weather?
01-05-2010, 01:44 AM
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Why can't people make allowances for the weather?
Stopped to help a few people stuck in snow this morning and one young bird nearly in tears cos she's stuck. She's got no coat, she's in high heels so can't walk anywhere and just sitting in her car spinning her wheels wildly... Sigh.
It doesn't take a genius to know you might want to chuck a few jumpers and a decent pair of shoes in yer car.
I managed to rescue a petrol tanker this morning too thanks to a few bags of sharp sand and a shovel. I rock! Lol.
(No, I wasn't in Honda, I was in the espace)
It doesn't take a genius to know you might want to chuck a few jumpers and a decent pair of shoes in yer car.
I managed to rescue a petrol tanker this morning too thanks to a few bags of sharp sand and a shovel. I rock! Lol.
(No, I wasn't in Honda, I was in the espace)
01-05-2010, 01:54 AM
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Originally Posted by mikey k,Jan 5 2010, 10:48 AM
That's what happens in WAG country 
it is below freezing and raining.
que t junction jokes.
01-05-2010, 01:54 AM
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Its an interesting observation.
I still see the young girls in the French tin cans (you know the ones, scraped back hair, fag on the go while texting furiously) tearing down the ice covered dual carriageway. Obviously accidents waiting to happen, and they are around here, daily.
A lot of younger drivers have never driven in this weather before, and a lot of other people never expect to break down any more.
How quickly we forget what its like to drive a piece of crap where half the excitement is actually reaching your destination ?
I still see the young girls in the French tin cans (you know the ones, scraped back hair, fag on the go while texting furiously) tearing down the ice covered dual carriageway. Obviously accidents waiting to happen, and they are around here, daily.
A lot of younger drivers have never driven in this weather before, and a lot of other people never expect to break down any more.
How quickly we forget what its like to drive a piece of crap where half the excitement is actually reaching your destination ?
01-05-2010, 01:58 AM
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I'm loving driving the espace around in this. It's an adventure!!
A few blankets, a change of clothes, some water, sand and a shovel, bring it on!!
A few blankets, a change of clothes, some water, sand and a shovel, bring it on!!
01-05-2010, 02:10 AM
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My van in Canda always had a few blankets, bottles of water, choccy bars and torches slung in a bag in the back – just in case.
I keep meaning to put the same sort of thing in the car here, but as it’s only a 4 mile drive to work it’s perhaps overkill.
I keep meaning to put the same sort of thing in the car here, but as it’s only a 4 mile drive to work it’s perhaps overkill.
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01-05-2010, 02:31 AM
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Breaker Breaker, Hey Sod Buster, listen
You wanna put that microbus in behind the suicide jockey?
Yeah, he's haulin dynamite
He needs all the help he can git
You wanna put that microbus in behind the suicide jockey?
Yeah, he's haulin dynamite
He needs all the help he can git
01-05-2010, 02:51 AM
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I've towed 3 people in the Landy so far this winter.
All 3 have been stuck somewhere they ought not to have attempted going;
2 at the bottom of the hill leading to our place, a 1 in 4 gradient which doesn't ever get gritted (but that has a ruined abbey and a car park at the bottom so they think the existence of a car park somehow makes the hill less slippery).
One in high heels, no coat etc. etc. that had slid off the main road into a ditch. On pulling her out she simply got in the car and drove off, not a care for whether the car was damaged.
All 3 have been stuck somewhere they ought not to have attempted going;
2 at the bottom of the hill leading to our place, a 1 in 4 gradient which doesn't ever get gritted (but that has a ruined abbey and a car park at the bottom so they think the existence of a car park somehow makes the hill less slippery).
One in high heels, no coat etc. etc. that had slid off the main road into a ditch. On pulling her out she simply got in the car and drove off, not a care for whether the car was damaged.