Car Crash
I remember many moons ago when I first drove a car with power assisted steering….

Prior to that, I'd been driving - and was still the proud owner of - a Vauxhall Cavalier estate. This car was like a tank, you needed all your strength just to get the thing to turn, it was a nightmare.

Anyway, I was, at the time, working for an Insurance company and being a very junior member of staff, I often had to skivvy for senior managers. Now and again, you got to go out of the office and take some files to another building or something. If I did this, I usually ended up driving a small Renault van (I think it was modelled on the Renault 4). However, there was one occasion when the van wasn't available and I was asked to take something (it might have been computer disks) to another office and I was given the chance to drive the senior underwriters car.

This car, which whilst a company car, was clearly his pride and joy. (They all looked after their cars as they got to buy them at a knock-down price after 3 years). It was a 1.6 Ford Orion Ghia.

It was also the first car I'd ever driven with power steering.

Yeap, that'll be me coming out of the car park, being completely surprised by this 'super light weight' steering and taking the corning far too sharply, I managed to destroy pretty much the whole offside of it, along with a brick built wall and a concrete bollard.

I assumed that '3 new panels' and it'll be fixed. I was wrong. Turns out, that this collision, despite the fact I I doing no more than about 15 MPH was sufficient to write off a 2 year old Ford.

Ok, it was fully insured and the company were great about it, not giving me any grief whatsoever (and I appreciated that!) - the only person who was upset was the manager whose car I'd managed to destroy. He was only about 8 months away from being able to buy the car for pennies, despite the fact it had a fair value on it. He was given a new company car but had to keep it for another 3 years.

I dare say that with the discount on the car he would have bought from the company, he's probably out of pocket by about three grand.

This isn't a brilliant story is it? It's quite dull on reflection. Never mind, I've made to effort to type it now.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 30 Oct 2007, 11:47, 4 replies)

It's Not Bad.
.
And you did take the effort to type it, spell-check it etc.

Need to work a little on the delivery though.

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Tue 30 Oct 2007, 14:00, closed)

Cheers Legless!
Although like I say, on reflection it's not that amusing.

Mullered.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 30 Oct 2007, 16:16, closed)

Don't be so hard on yourself mate
It made me smile - and it's well written.

Nice one
(Pavlov's Frog figures no-one really reads sigs anyway, Tue 30 Oct 2007, 22:31, closed)

I clicked I Like This
It's a good 'un.
(Emily Bruce-Dickinson http://jovialfellow.blogspot.com/, Wed 31 Oct 2007, 10:49, closed)