In message , Martin Dixon
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shaking his head. Said car was at a nice, sharp angle on the verge and
judging from the Unfocussed driver's face I don't think he wanted his car
to be where it was.


Last night we came across a lady driver who had managed to slide her focus
into the verge (a colleage in the car had remarked earlier that her car
seemed totally out of control, wheels spinning and all.

Anyway, said aldy then emergerd from the car and proceeded to try to brush
the snow off her REAR wheels, then got back into the car and tried to pull
away without success.

In the end we took pity and her and gave her a push and managed to get her
back on the road.

I took pity on the painter/decorator working four doors up. He had
arrived through the snow and ice and driven forwards onto the drive at
about eight in the morning. The drive slopes, perhaps 1 in 6 or 8, down
to the garage. Front-drive, presumably, Nissan Serena at least wiggled
sideways left onto the lawn rather than right and potentially down a
couple of feet [1] or so to the adjacent driveway.

At this point I lent him a shovel and pointed to the grit-bins. By the
time I'd come back with the newspapers he'd more-or-less extracted the
vehicle. What did he think he'd been driving on?


[1] Score so far over the years - one Mini and one Peugeot 205.
--
Peter Thomas