
I was once in a taxi that was a Lada in Scandewegia going up a steep hill on a road that had about an inch of compacted snow covering it.
We got slower and slower and slower, then stopped, and started sliding backwards, getting up to a speed of 40kph.
Somehow - somehow - the guy managed to pull off a handbrake turn into a sidestreet, whereupon he cooly turned to us and said 'I think you walk from here boys. Is no charge.'
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Thu 23 Apr 2009, 14:57,
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We got slower and slower and slower, then stopped, and started sliding backwards, getting up to a speed of 40kph.
Somehow - somehow - the guy managed to pull off a handbrake turn into a sidestreet, whereupon he cooly turned to us and said 'I think you walk from here boys. Is no charge.'

I used to live on a hill it was fun watching people trying to get up the hill in the snow :)
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