My Christmas NightmareThe bringing together of one's family and friends over the holiday period is never quite as fun as it is supposed to be: this year, my mum and dad will be in the same room for the first time in 28 months. It should prove interesting.
Tell us about the nightmares you've had over christmas.
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chthonic, Thu 23 Dec 2004, 13:46)
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Bollards!I'm a learner driver, so imagine how delighted I was Christmas lunchtime to find out my parent's had put me on their car insurance! I'd now be able to go around town with the windows down, listening to dance music loudly, looking damn cool. With my mum sitting next to me.
After about two hours of driving around perfectly, stopping off at relatives houses to say "look how well I can drive", I was following a cyclist- the only other vehicle on the road. He was swerving about a bit- looked a bit drunk. There was plenty of distance between us.
Just as I'm going to overtake him, when suddenly I see a cyclist more or less fall into my path! I swerve to the right to avoid him and smash into one of those plastic bollards you get at pedestrian crossing things in the middle of the road. More specifically, I smashed over a bollard. It sprung right back up and was fine, oddly.
The cyclist was fine. The car wasn't.
Click here for pictures of £1600 worth of damage.
Oh Bollards.
(, Thu 6 Jan 2005, 17:11, Reply)
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