Unexpected Good FortuneTravelling through Seattle a good 15 years ago, I remembered an old friend I used to blow up Action Men with. We were bored, nothing to lose , so I looked him up in the phonebook. He was the only one of that name in there. "Come and stay," goes he.
Me and my mates were living in a car at that point so a bed was a novelty. After searching for a while, we rock up to a very posh mansion on Puget Sound with its own Helipad. "Come flying," goes he.
Has your luck held out recently?
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chthonic, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 18:43)
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Good fortune. Sortof.So I'm driving in my new (to me) VW Bora and I saw a car in the distance. Oh-hoh, says I, I'll chase him down and catch him.
Wrong.
I'm in my Bora, a small family saloon - not my Seat Leon, which had the sports suspension. Bora has big springy springs.
Road ahead goes 90 degrees to the left - I don't. In fact I go straight on. Backwards. Into a field. At about 50.
Sounds like bad fortune - but no! The field is a big soft one, with a little angled kerb and no trees and no ditch and no angry farmer. Only damage was a destroyed tyre which needed replacing anyway - Bonus :-)
Gets better (sortof) the handling was off afer this (as you can imagine) - turns out I'd destroyed the shock absorber which was then replaced under VW warranty (Obviously I didn't tell them the truth).
Incidentally, if this is read by someone who at VW knows about this - this is all an alleged story. Honest.
Penis joke here.....
(, Wed 20 Sep 2006, 13:26, Reply)
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