Arf.
I lost it on a roundabout once. Nice big roundabout down in Fratton. Span the car around and ended up heading backwards towards the roundabout at a fairly low rate of speed. "Great" I thought, "I'll let the car ride up on to the grass and I'll be out of traffic and able to make a sheepish but safe recovery". I completely failed to account for the fact that several years ago, some government worker had put a mark on a piece of paper and now there was a lamp-post in my path of travel.

Still, got the day off work and fixed the car myself (badly). My boss said I should report the impact to the lamp post to the council but I never did.

Two weeks later, I was backing up in the road near my house, there was a car in the way that wasn't normally there so I backed around it, straight into another lamp post, causing nearly symmetrical damage to the rear end.

Mk II Ford Escorts. What a laugh.
(Richy_T hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Fri 13 Feb 2009, 21:52, Reply)