Thread: Rover over, over, chck......

Well,

I finally managed to do something really dumb...... Most people I know would count that as a daily occurrence, however, just got home after an epic.

It started well, sculpture at collector, Nelson memorial, pub, war memorial at goulburn (not sure what the German exchange student thought of that!), Berrima ( not sure what the German exchange student thought about the WW1 German POW camp) etc etc, lookout at Tallong dinner at Goulburn....

And then, within spit of home, the urge for a bit of off road suddenly struck.

Which went well for the first 30 seconds, and then went bad when we sort of like fell off the embankment I wanted to surmount. And sort of ended upside down miss jane.

Anyway, no injuries, but needless to say, a fairly interesting conversation, mainly involving the young fellow finding his phone!!! And then the disentanglement and climbing out.

Luckily, I was so close to home, I could get the gear to remedy the outlandish situation. However, the first problem was convincing she who must be obeyed to pick me up, and sort of come back in the disco, and maybe have a kip whilst the job at hand was completed.

Anyway, a 2T chain block, and 3T tirfor swiftly had the 130 deefer back sort of vertical, with four points of rubber contact....

But then, I found a curious thing...... The disco (300tdiauto) which I only got regoed last week, would not pull the paper of a Christmas pudding in reverse.

It was like the worlds worst slipping clutch. Is this normal, because if it is,I would have used the SIII 2.25D wagon, which pulls like a fourteen year old in both directions.

So, long story short, confirmed damage is hood bows bent, divots in roof from roof rack contact, radio antennae broken, clutch fluid drained, steering fluid drained, and every single thing in the cabin piled up on the passenger side. No glass broken, and joy oh joy, no mirrors broken. Except for the one in the disco that she who must be obeyed tried to adjust, and pulled off the windscreen...

I can now thoroughly endorse wrap around bars, and chequer plate step boards.

And absolutely best of all. The exchange student thought it was an ace adventure, and sincerely thanked me.

Of course I sort of explained a lot of things on the way like the defender wave, and the requirement to pull up and assist a fellow defender owner when they have unexpectedly failed to continue to keep proceeding and stuff like that.

Unfortunately, about one minute later, we whizzed past a deefer beside the road on the mitts gong bypass, I could not pull up, or turn around. So I quickly made up the rule that the bonnet must be up, otherwise the driver may just be answering a call of nature..... Ha ha.

And, the sad thing is, the young lad was so keen for the wave, and all of a sudden, deefers were like rocking horse pooh. He asked about waving at discos, but I did point out the futility. Luckily, I did not say it was like invading France....ha ha.

Gumnut

HA talk about exchange students.

A few years ago in AK we had a couple of Jap girls stay with us. anyway they had the school list of things to visit, one was the war museum in AK.

so as i always did i scrounged up 3 poppies for the rellies who didn’t come home and off we went.

All was good until the upper floor, the girls just followed me as I was placing the poppies. the girls are snap snapping with there cameras as only Asians can do.
One girl bumped into some old guy ( say old like 80+). The old guy blurts out some thing like show some respect do you know where you are. The girl give the black look of i have no idea. The old guy carries on, these are the names of the boys who didn’t come back ww1., one girl asks didn’t come back?? Reply the F@@@ Germans killed them. And the next wall are all the ones killed by the f@@ japs.

i had a couple of very sad girls on my hands, they actually had no idea that ww2 even happened.

Not as bad as my boss. we had a French guy come over, arrogant as but then my boss was not shy either. Same museum. That wall is all the kiwis killed getting the Germans out of your country the first time. This wall is all the kiwis killed getting the Germans out the second time. Even at lunch that day. That’s the prison ( MT eden) where the two French saboteurs where held. that’s where they came in the rubber boat. And just over there is where the cowards bombed the rainbow worrier. that’s the plague for the guy they killed. etc. 10 hours of it. my face was saw from smiling so much.