Thread: Do I even bother with a title for these any more?

Like paint of the Defender bullbar - so are the Days of Our Lives

Thanks!

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

After getting to work I got the phone call from SWMBO come get her shes right to come home from hospital. Dont panic it wasnt anything serious.

So off I toddle from work and on the way out we stop in at the pharmacy and as i walk in to get her prescriptions the guy at the counter gives me " mate since your in the discount suit (my uniform) if you go down to this pharmacy you'll save $x if you ask for the non brand name stuff you will wind up with exactly the same stuff in plain boxes and you'll save $XX."

I give him the big grin, cheers and the thumbs up and of we toddle. At this point Im strangely unaware that anything is wrong with this situation..... Ive had a coffee, my wifes better, Im about to save some money... I mean how many warning signs do you think I need to work out that something insanely stupid or expensive is about to happen.... quite a few more than I got apparently.

I pull off and theres no traffic to make me do a hill start into the traffic to get moving, getting to the pharmacy I didnt get a single red light and the traffic all moved smoothly I didnt have to stop or change gears excessively thats right Ipswich peak traffic and I didnt have to do one more gear change than was absolutely required...

The warning lights should have been on at this point....

I approach the pharmacy, now as you travel along on the one way road the parking is laid out in this order, loading zone and 4 metered parks, anyway as Im approaching with my indicator on 3 cars pull out at once. Im talking a 3 car manouver conducted like it was rehearsed so Ive got a whole loading zone and 3 parking spaces to choose from, downshift and pull over into the loading zone downshift one more into first and brakes, clutch, parkbrake and Im parked the loading zone right behind me and 2 clear spaces. Swmbo gets out and walks past the meter, then heads inside (we'll count the fact that when she came back and told me that the meter still had 20 minutes on it as one more good thing at this point even though I didnt know it I thought she was just going to risk it as I was still in the car)..

By now If anyone else but me was in the car that would count for a bloody good start to the day... But its me... for those of you who follow some of the things that happen in my life your probabley saying things along the lines of "Dave you fool, RUN its bad" or "Why arent you paying attention Did you mute the Murhpy klaxons". Perhaps your quietly laughing at your monitor sagely aware that, while Im blissfully listening to my favorite songs on the stereo and enjoying the sun shining between the buildings tinted down to just exactly the right serenity inducing levels through my sunnies, something is going to go wrong. Those of you who follow my writing style and the insperations for it will say something like " I bet If you had a pair of ju janta 2000 peril sensitive sunglasses on they would be black right about now."

And youd all be right.

A comercial learner driver car pulls past, you know the kind L plates and Bobs driving school plastered all over some tiny hatchback that Id normally refer to as a bump stop or mobile crumple zone and its slowing down left blinker on. Sure enough it comes to a halt along side the car 3 bays up from me then it begins to reverse up and apply left lock.. He reverses up into the first available bay and from where I was looking I thought hed nailed it into the bay closest to the front parked car it was perfectly done he was in and square before the back bumper wound up in the spare bay in front of me..

He must have thought something different cause he kept on coming..... I thought he was going for the next bay. at this point youve guesed whats happened so I'll just jump to the punch line...

The driver was the instructor.. I found out after he snuck the vehicle forwards a couple of feet that apparently he normally drives a larger manual car and when he punched the "clutch" and put a little pressure on the brake it would stop him so he could talk to the student about the manouver hed just done...

He wasnt very happy when I said I didnt give a naff about swapping liscence or insurance details with him, he was even less happy when I just wiped his paint off of the bull bar with the tread of my boots. he did spot the mesh guards over the bar mounted lights and asked about what they were for.

He was down right excremental when I told him "they for those times when I meet idiots like you so I dont have to replace my lights." he stomped back into the car and then without looking hooked in and left cutting of a very expensive looking car that pulled up with the wonderous sound of horns and locked tyres....

This ladies and gentlemen is just another one of those things that just seems to happen to me

Wonder if he made the student pay for the lesson.

Once again Dave, glad the fender is okay, you need to get one of those rubber stamps made up with perhaps, "image of small car cruched by large 4wd", so you can stamp your door with your "kills". perhaps that would help in warding off the idiots

Just follow the old air force custom of painting enemy flags on the nose. A couple of rising suns, a pedestrian or two, a Hakkenkreuz, A few tricoloeurs, maybe a locomotive (oops).

Do you ever atart a thread that is less than a couple of sentences long......

every friggin thread of yours i open is like a small novel!!

Originally Posted by Stuuu

Like paint of the Defender bullbar - so are the Days of Our Lives

Thanks!

Dont you mean "Dave's Of Our Lives"

Very funny story Dave. I am glad its a good one compared with some you have.
There are too many dipsticks like this out there. It makes me wonder how they get through life, but these are the reasons for a road toll.

Originally Posted by dullbird

Do you ever atart a thread that is less than a couple of sentences long......

every friggin thread of yours i open is like a small novel!!

Cant wait for the book version though.

Originally Posted by CraigE

Dont you mean "Dave's Of Our Lives"

Dave youo always brighten my day.
At least it was at low speed and no damage/ injuries happened.

I had an old cruiser pull out from a side street the other night. Locked up the page and managed to swearve into the other lane and back without hitting the crumple zone beside me or the cruiser. He only realised the sqeeling tyres were due to him when a saw me sliding past him trying to go sideways in the japero with zero control left.
Poor excel driver who was next to refused to look at anyone afterwards. I also then noticed that most of the peak hour triffic had moved into the lane away from the cruiser.