....Are Larger Than They Appear".
Particularly when Herself is reversing and the object is a concrete bollard.
More expense.
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Bad luck G, but it was only half an own goal. I once backed into my own motorcycle. My prayers could be heard two streets away.
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When I was a wee nipper, my dad reversed over my pram.
I wasn't in it (fortunate or unfortunate, you decide).
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Objects in the mirror.......
sometimes dont appear.
Like a huge 30 foot high lamp post that carried 6 lights on top in a BR station car park..
Reversed into that in my Fiat 131 estate - right in the middle of the rear of the car. The post shuddered and then kinked over at about 30 degrees 10 feet from the top.
The Fiat looked as tho it had had been struck by the bow of the QE2.......
Funny enough the only thing that didnt have rust on it was the new tailgate.
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Objects in the mirror.......
Like the motorcycle cop following me out of a car park many years ago, when I gently reversed into him and left him sitting on the tank with his helmet over his eyes.
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Ouch! Still, gets you out of an evening with Barry Manilow, possibly? Every cloud... :-)
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As for evening activities. wait till next Letter and I will tell you about how the authorities close off entire roads for the midnight Lollapollooza Valentine's Kiss-A-Thon, where hundreds of couples try and beat the last Record in the Guinness Book. Only in this country.....
She can't kiss away that one, especially when I have just spent an evening with 7 Frenchmen watching England playing like a bunch of pussies in the 6 Nations and losing by one point to boot. I mean it's so unfair, they can't even make decent cars. I mean either of 'em.
But, DVD, ref your earlier post, I think this may well be a cost-effective way out of the I-want-the-new-Mazda-3 dilemma. JBJ, every cloud indeed etc ....;+)
Love 'em or leave 'em.
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>> She can't kiss away that one, especially when I have just spent an evening with 7 Frenchmen watching England playing like a bunch of pussies in the 6 Nations and losing by one point to boot.
Ha!
Not only that, but the only "Englishman' who did anything in yesterday's cricket hails from ... South Africa!
Another defeat... I turned on the telly while pottering about making kiddies' breakfast.
Heard the "and there's a wicket!"... "and there's another wicket!!"... and assumed that play was delayed and they were showing highlights of previous matches.
Not to be.. England two down for one run.
So piled the kiddies in the car and off we go to the carwash.
(Other kids get to go to Disneyland on sundays. Go figure)
The buffoons who cleaned the car interior did a splendid job ... of smashing the concelaed-under-the-dash immobiliser overide. Obviously a touch over-vigorous with the dash-wiping cloth.
So spent an hour driving around to spares places trying to find a replacement. No joy. (I'll get one later today, and spend this evening cursing while wriggling under the dashboard.)
So went to the pub, and consumed far too much beer.
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....Are Larger Than They Appear".
I should have thought that was obvious. The object in my mirror is only about 3 inches wide but I know the truck behind me is at least 8 ft wide!
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It's when the badge of the vehicle behind fills your rear view mirror that you really need to get worried...:-)
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What\'s for you won\'t pass you by
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This a.m. I received the estimate for the consequences of Herself failing to recognise larger than it appeared object filling rear view mirror.
I am not a happy man. She has gone all cuddly though since the event, so not all is bad. Mind you, if she thinks she get round me that way...
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I am not a happy man. She has gone all cuddly though since the event, so not all is bad. Mind you, if she thinks she get round me that way...
Given the previous 15 episodes of the Growler Chronicles, she will ... she will!
Meanwhile, Mrs Ian, after years of refusing my kind offers to send her to driving school and/or let her learn in my car, has finally decided that these car thingies could prove quite useful...
She's taking more-than-passing interest in the motoring magazines these days, which is a bad sign.
"That's cute!" (BMW 1-series)
"I don't like that colour!"
"That's ugly!" (Subaru!)
etc etc etc
I had to break her heart and tell her the household budget might not quite stretch to a C-Class Merc!
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