Car testing
Not about me but about my cousin, Nick from the good ol' US of A. He was over for a few months and decided to get some WE at any company he could. His Dad is very well connected and managed to get him WE at a certain car magazine. Cue 2 months of him getting free test cars every weekend, which he dutifully tested with me and chilling at trackdays with racers and general coolness.

However, he wasn't really au fait with UK traffic laws and thought that, like Germany, the motorways are derestricted. After about a month he arrives after a blistering 200 mile trip from London and complains that everyone drives so slowly in England.

"How fast were they going?" I ask.

"About 80, 90 MPH."

"The speed limit's 70, Nick." I reply.

Long pause followed by another long pause.

"Then I'm in alot of trouble"

It turns out he had been travelling back and forth at about 140 mph for the last two weeks and a few days later the first of many, MANY tickets start to arrive.

Deep trouble? Not a bit of it. The boss calls him in and asks why the tickets seem to be piling up. Nick 'fesses up and the boss cracks up. Turns out they just tell the authorities that the person driving the car was a foreign correspondant and that they have been since gone back to their own country like Greece or Albania.

This sort of thing was an almost daily occurence at that place.

Length? About 2000 miles that month.
(71 hour Ahmed wasn't working at, Fri 11 May 2007, 11:00, Reply)