Helping an old lady UP the road
Southover Street is one of the steepest hills here in Brighton, which unfortunately I had to ascend quite often. It really is quite vertiginously steep, and you feel like you should have ropes, crampons and possibly a team of sherpas to help you.

One day, as I was leaving base camp (The Greys pub) near the bottom, I noticed some poor sods attempting to push their car UP to the next cross-street. They were clearly struggling, so I offered to help.

With Herculanean effort, since the street feels near-vertical even without the dead weight of a Ford Crappy, we finally managed to heave it up and turn it onto the side street. They thanked me, and I set off up the hill once more, feeling the warm glow of having helped someone.

I turned back to wave a cheery good-bye, and it was at that point that I noticed their granny, sitting in the passenger seat doing her knitting...
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 16:30, 4 replies)

sod pushing a car up southover
i don't even like walking up it sober. drunk, fuhgeddaboutit.
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 16:52, closed)

Lazy old cow.

( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 10 Feb 2012, 20:00, closed)

Similarly, a couple of years back I witnessed a Smart car trying and badly failing to make its way up the 1 in 4 inclination of Clifton Common in Brighouse.
Upon seeing that it was decked out with an estate agent's corporate livery, I just laughed and left them to it.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sat 11 Feb 2012, 2:45, closed)

Yeah, had to do this for my mum, so there were three of us pushing and pushing and pushing, only to get to the top and back in, upon my mum saying "Oops, the handbrake was on!".
(boozehound is drinking your bar dry, Sat 11 Feb 2012, 10:04, closed)