A warning for chunkies
About a month after passing my test and gratefully accepting a 1989 blue Ford Fiesta as a gift from my parents as my first ever car, I drove over to my girlfriend's place about twenty minutes away. Dutifully offering to drive over to the local Tesco to pick up some food for the night, I parked up and bought a plethora of tasty oriental foodstuffs and also a large packet of Cheese N Chive crisps for the ride back to hers, which was a three minute journey, tops. Driving out of the car park, I opened the packet of crisps and put them in the speedometer well just beyond the steering wheel for easy access to the salty treats whilst driving.

However, my Fiesta was old enough to not have power steering and after having taken a rather sharp turn to exit the car park, I rammed my hand into the crisps whilst the steering wheel was turned. Having to straighten up the steering wheel to leave the car park, I stupidly left my hand in the crisps, thereby jamming my arm between the steering wheel and the crisps causing the car to careen onwards towards an enormous kerb.

It proper fucked up my tyres.
(Hernandez Fiendish probably won't be here until at least, say, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 10:13, 2 replies)

Remember, kids...
...don't eat and drive.
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Mon 26 Apr 2010, 16:33, closed)

I did this!
Only I had stopped at Tesco for some cigarettes and I was reaching for my lighter which was resting on the dials behind the wheel.

I squashed my wrist and had to do an emergency stop across both lanes.
( Dervel OTBC, Wed 28 Apr 2010, 9:37, closed)