Bad Day!!!

[chelledunleavy]

OK, I am travelling to the shops, going round the roundabout and the bleeping numpty in front of me slams his brakes on, in the inside lane, to apparently gaze around in wonderment before screeching off in front of oncoming traffic down the road! I had managed to stop before hitting the prat but unfortunatly a young lad in the car behind me didn't manage it and hit me up the bum!
According to the police the young lad who hit me was at fault not divvy brain who has driven off oblivious, kind of reminds me of the joke....I've been driving for 20years and never had a crash....seen a load in my rear view mirror though!!!

Edited for Chris! :D

[CJC]

Had much the same happen to me a few years ago. Driving down the Uxbridge Road cretin in front decides to stop at a green traffic light, I slam on my brakes and just miss him, bloke behind slams on his brakes and doesn't miss me. Not much damage done and no police involvement but annoying all the same.

Not quite as annoying as the half-blind vicar who pulled out of his driveway right in front of me in an apparent attempt to arrange a meeting between me and his god but then that's another story...

Chris

PS I think we're grown up enough to be able to use the word 'prat' in here

[LouLou143]

Oooooh I feel for ya - as it happened to me the other day - whilst driving to college I may add to sit my skills test!

Two lanes at roundabout - bloke to the left of me, decided to visit deaths door and pulls out in front of someone on roundabout and the bird behind me thinks I am gonna visit death too, so decides to drive up my bum - d'oh! Did she not realise that she was behind me and not the other bloke!!! As if I was going to pull out in front of a car and commit suicide - come on I had a skills test to get too!!! :lol:

Ggrrrggh!

Luckily no damage done but boy did i do a bit of sign language!

Lou x

[chelledunleavy]

Poor you Lou, I hope your skills test went a bit more smoothly :D
Have to smile though, after exchanging details with the poor kid who had bumped me I do admit to driving around the industrial estate frantically searching for brain dead driver....I was looking for a big/medium, black/brown/burgundy rover type of car/van/spaceship (get the feeling I wasn't overly observant today!) with the fullest intent of smoothing my crunched bumper with this guys face :lol: I would have wished him a Merry Christmas whilst doing so though!
Ho Hum, worse things have happened though!

[CJC]

I should probably admit to having once driven into the back of someone - I was in a beaten-up Talbot Horizon (this is going back a few years when I was a poor student) and hit a rather plush Merc. The guy was very good about it and ended up paying for the damage himself because he was glad I was honest enough to give him my correct details.

My only nasty crash was the encounter with the vicar. Going into work on my last day at Reading University. I see him in his drive way, surely he's not... oh God, yes he is! I can't stop, hit him and my car flips over onto it's side. I clamber out through the sun-roof amd sit rather dazed though otherwise uninjured, apart from some impressive bruises, at the side of the road while police, ambulance and fire engine turn up.

After all the formailities were done I staggered the quarter mile into work for my leaving do and ended up getting rather drunk. It was only in retrospect that I realised just what might have happened if there had been anything coming the other way. Could have been worse, at least I wasn't on my way to a skills test :)

Then there was the car I had that caught on fire in a petrol station...

Chris

[chelledunleavy]

Good grief Chris, Do people actually accept lifts from you any more :lol:
I guess though that all of our exploits on the road at least give us some good after dinner stories....thankfully!!!
My best was rolling my first car into a ditch down in the cotswolds and trying to persuade my rather dazed passenger that we were capable of turing the car right side up and continuing our journey....three farm workmen and a tractor later....
My Dad had bet me that this, my first car would last me a month before I wrote it off, well I beat him, I had it a month AND a week before it went to the big car park in the sky!!! :lol: