Overtaking + ice = sandwiches.
Along the Beverley bypass, there's a section half way along where it becomes a dual carriageway. Because the traffic is always stuck behind a small box-lorry doing 40mph with a learner-driver in it, the dual carriageway bit is something to look forward to.

Just after Xmas, Mrs SLVA and I were going down said road as we'd fancied a pub-meal in some small village or other. The snow had cleared except at the sides and the road was wet from snowmelt.

After being stuck behind a lorry learner-driver for a good couple of miles, we approached the dual carriageway I overtook the lorry. As I got past, I noticed it going down a slip-road towards Beverley.
"Bugger, I might as well have waited, damn my impatience"

I decided to pull back into the left-hand lane but I hadn't anticipated the large ridge of slush that seperated the lanes and the larger patch of slush in the centre of each lane, which hadn't melted as it was in the shadow of the bridge across the road.

The slush kicked the front wheels hard enough to put me in a spin. Mrs SLVA screamed and how I didn't fill my pants is a mystery as the car span just over a full rotation before the wheels gripped the slush-free tarmac again and we were pointing in the right direction again. This unplanned manouvre including hitting the bare tarmac again had slowed the car to about 20mph.
"Jesusfuckingchrist!!" gasped my missus gripping the door handle and the edge of her seat, her eyes wide in fright. Now the car was rolling fine again I actually laughed.
"Oops" I said, dropped it into second gear and began to speed up again.
"Oops?? Fucking oops!!??" is that all you can say? Fucking oops?"
"That was thrilling" I replied surprised at my own calmness.
"Can we go back home?" she asked, "I'm not hungry anymore"
"Tschoh! I suppose so." and that's how I ended up having to make do with a bacon sandwich back home.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 12:22, 3 replies)

What do you mean "make do" with a bacon sandwich?
Surely food of the gods.....
(penrose your dog's got tits, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 12:38, closed)

We
only had salted bacon instead of smoked.

and we didn't have any brown sauce either
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 12:45, closed)

sounds like the missus did...

( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 15:03, closed)