Not by a jealous van driver!

Ha! Gotcha! The actual theme is.......

That I was driving with the roof & windows down the other day, when a small pebble whacked the fleshy lobe at the bottom of my ear! Stunned for a second I remembered looking in the rear view mirror a while back with a yellow pus running down my forehead. Anyone else get bombarded with stones & wasps recently?

(I was told recently - if you're worried - that the wasp season is over when the first frost hits; it kills the bugg*rs in their nest).

 

you were whacked on the ear and you've got pus on yer forehead?


What you goin on about, man???!!!!

 

Had a few serious whacks on the screen and did wonder what sort of damage they would have caused to me...........

Most of the time I don't think about it, although I always wear glasses/shades when driving.

Just to alarm you though, and this is no urban myth, I knew a guy whose finger was sliced off by a piece of road debris. No soft top either, he just had his arm out of the window and something thrown up from the road took of the finger. No finger or debris ever found either!

There was an article in the paper a week or so ago about a celeb chef who nearly died when his sportscar rolled and his arm was trapped outside - subsequently amputated.

 

who was the celeb chef

 

You should try catching a small bird in the face on a motorbike. Happened to a friend of mine, he said it feels like your heads going to come off.

The other funny bike story I saw in a magazine was the guy who caught a wasp in his mouth, it stung him he tried to spit it out, it stings him again he spits again, third sting and he chews and swallows it.

 

Has anyone seen the Ariel Atom

Car described it as a Tie-fighter that's crashed into a step-ladder

Zero protection from anything. Its pretty much a space frame with no body panels

 

I can't say I've been hit by anything.
I do always wear sunnies and have a cap pretty firmly attached to my head.

A completely OT topic, but while I was driving I was thinking of another possible risk of top down driving; I wonder if there is an increased risk of skin cancer in those that have convertibles? (can't include boxster, mgf, and z3/z4 drivers as they never have their roofs down )

Hmmm....perhaps a study to do in the future..........?

 

Thought you were a doctor you should be able to sort this out

 

No......my answer to everything is JD. Which reminds me..........................

 

I was driving down a quiet (I live up north) motorway once and a bike went past me faster than a speeding bullet. He must have been going 140+....Had a rucksack on his back which I noticed was flapping quite a bit...well it flapped too much and out came the contents.....Fivers I was driving through a sea of