Tenuous link
I've just returned from some Saturday night social networking with friends (I told you it was tenuous) who live "across the border" in Bristol. Or "Brizzle" as everyone there seems to pronounce it. So I'm driving home, somewhat hungover and discombobulated but with the aforethought of having my £5.30 ready to cross the Severn bridge back into Wales. I have the correct money so I queue up for one of the coin bins.

There is absolutely no dignity in lowering the car window, throwing £5.30 to the coin-bin...

...and missing.

People were winding down windows and cheering at me while I got out to retrieve the cash from the tarmac.

Arse.

Edit: Oh and also, there is absolutely nothing wrong with driving in your slippers. Despite what Severn Bridge attendants might jeer at you.
(R. Jimlad twitter.com/sirmarkymark, Sun 14 Sep 2008, 17:08, 5 replies)

I've been in a similar position
when it was sub-£5 to cross the bridge.

I had driven up to one of the manned booths as I only had a fiver. I reached out with my note towards the guy and clearly wasn't holding it tight enough because the wind whipped it out of my hand and blew it down the line of cars behind me.

The attendant and I looked at each other and paused. (He had made a slight move as if he might go and get it) When I realised I had to go get it, I uttered a loud "Shit!", got out of my car and scampered back past 3 or 4 cars to grab the note.

They were all laughing like drains, the sadistic swine!
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Sun 14 Sep 2008, 18:17, closed)

I feel your pain brother
Shower of bastards.
(R. Jimlad twitter.com/sirmarkymark, Sun 14 Sep 2008, 18:29, closed)

You deserve a click
If only for the use of "discombobulated".
( MatJ LOOK, Mon 15 Sep 2008, 3:57, closed)

Teh Severn Bridge
I discovered sometime last year to my utter horror that they do not accept plastic.

WTF!!!! F***ing usless bunch of AARRRGGH

Some nice man then takes you round the service roads and points you back the opposite way and tells you the nearest cashpoint is 10 miles away.

The worst part of it is that you drive past a building that is obviiously for the booth staff. Why not put one of them Link machines in there..????

I was so pissed off and was going to go up to gloucester and take that route in...

Then thought better of it..
(never-right -getting it wrong since '78, Mon 15 Sep 2008, 10:51, closed)

I've done that too.
You only do it once...
(Scrumpy does not negotiate with terrorists,, Mon 15 Sep 2008, 11:31, closed)