Helping in the snow
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slipstream 1985 said:
Oh dear lord
A classic example of helping when maybe you shouldn't.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8_WPHEhkYA
Skip to 1:20 for the good bit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8_WPHEhkYA
Skip to 1:20 for the good bit
neil_bolton said:
CANNOT believe what i have just seen i must have been so lucky this has not happened to me, when i was a young un. i drove to a local car park [1980's] to practice messing around in cars in this sort of weather, must have learned something, but repeat i must have been lucky.
Living in the suburbs of Manchester its great fun helping folk out - its not often people look pleased when you slow down, stop, pop the boot, pull out a shovel and a large sack then gesture that they should get out of their car. (Especially effective in pull up in a loud rusty black car wearing an overcoat, combat boots and faded fatigues (I was bored and unemployed at the start of the year)
Apparently its completely different if you do the same in summer..... the locals don't like it as much.
Apparently its completely different if you do the same in summer..... the locals don't like it as much.
slipstream 1985 said:
First time I saw that I got bored and didn't watch the last bit, the second time I nearly coughed up a lung carmadgaz said:
Leeholty said:
I live near clee hill
Where about are you? I'm down in lovely sunny *cough* Tenbury. The Clee was great fun last year, our snowball fight didn't last long as it was too cold!Leeholty said:
carmadgaz said:
Leeholty said:
I live near clee hill
Where about are you? I'm down in lovely sunny *cough* Tenbury. The Clee was great fun last year, our snowball fight didn't last long as it was too cold!
OK, relented and helped a neighbour going to Luton airport dig out with the assitance of the dung scraper from the farm. Can't see he will make it frankly as the M1 is partially blocked Jct 28 and he only has 2 hours to do a trip that normally takes him....2 hours. Snow was so heavy that by the time he got out of the road after almost 2 hours digging, you couldn't see where he had been 30 minutes before, and it put 6 inches of snow on his roof in the 2 hours.
Wash your car using copious amounts of water which may well run out onto the road. Set up your stereo outside playing Torvill and Dean music. Next, don a red vest with "Big Issue" on it and stand outside in an unshaven state holding some old magazines (or hire a boy scout pretending it's bob a job week). I expect you'll wear them down. If not, you may make a few quid selling off old magazines.
I got of the car last year and walked to the front of a queue while everyone else sat in the their car watching a Mercedes that just couldn't get going on an uphill slope.
Gave him a push and off he went. I turned and went flat on my arse, somehow jolting my elbow. Seemed fine at first but as the evening wore on it hurt more but I didn't want to say anything as wifey was going to the US next day. For the next few days I could barely move my arm and looking after myself was a nightmare.
I assumed it would wear off but it still twinges even now - it's made my way more cautious in the snow/ice then I ever was before.
Gave him a push and off he went. I turned and went flat on my arse, somehow jolting my elbow. Seemed fine at first but as the evening wore on it hurt more but I didn't want to say anything as wifey was going to the US next day. For the next few days I could barely move my arm and looking after myself was a nightmare.
I assumed it would wear off but it still twinges even now - it's made my way more cautious in the snow/ice then I ever was before.
Call at about 11am today from my neighbour:
Her; "I have just swept the snow off our step and it looks really powdery. I think if WE (read 'You') moved the snow off my drive (40 yards long and a foot deep in snow, almost 3 feet deep around her car) I could get down to the road and out"
Me: "Why do you want to go out? The roads are all snowed up anyway once you get to the top of the hill, even if you could get up the hill, and then you could be stuck because you won't get back up your steep drive if you go out"
Her: " I need some milk"
Me; "Much easier to walk up to the shop than clear the drive if you just need milk, or do without. Why not get XXXX (16 year old son) to walk to the shop or clear the snow?"
Her: "He's in bed and won't do it"
Me; puts down phone.
Her; "I have just swept the snow off our step and it looks really powdery. I think if WE (read 'You') moved the snow off my drive (40 yards long and a foot deep in snow, almost 3 feet deep around her car) I could get down to the road and out"
Me: "Why do you want to go out? The roads are all snowed up anyway once you get to the top of the hill, even if you could get up the hill, and then you could be stuck because you won't get back up your steep drive if you go out"
Her: " I need some milk"
Me; "Much easier to walk up to the shop than clear the drive if you just need milk, or do without. Why not get XXXX (16 year old son) to walk to the shop or clear the snow?"
Her: "He's in bed and won't do it"
Me; puts down phone.
Edited by Cogcog on Wednesday 1st December 18:55
Cogcog said:
...Lazy arsed neighbour talk...
It's amazing the length people will go to in order to avoid actually using their legs these days.I walked for 3 hours to fetch some milk/bread/bits for my grandparents and some random old women I met on the way who was too unsteady on her feet to go anywhere but the local shop 100 yards away - even she'd made the effort to walk out and had wrapped up (albiet I bet the ally zimmer frame was a bit chilly to hold!)
Not doing anything else if you're stuck so may as well enjoy the scenery, even if it's a bit cold and slippery, what's wrong with a nice walk?
Edited by PhillipM on Wednesday 1st December 20:04
Helped an Alfa 159 get out of it's parking bay with two pizza boxes from my recycling, pushed a Bedford rascal up my road (amazing diff that managed to spin up just the rear right Oo), saw an 80 year old+ getting out of his car on two sticks and helped him to the nearest salted pavement, salted the shared path outside my house for the neighbours. All in all did my good deeds for the day, feel good about it and got on speaking terms with people |I have lived close to for years without acknowledging, this snow s
t is good for the community and the soul 
t is good for the community and the soul Agree the bit about talking to people you wouldn't normally, but I am afraid that I also took a view that the 2 cars which were sitting plastered in snow (no attempt made to clear them) and frantically spinning wheels were probably improving road safety by NOT getting onto the main road, and gave them a wide berth.
Hopefully some form of reduced friction training will eventually become part of the Driving Test, as it is clearly needed for many.
Hopefully some form of reduced friction training will eventually become part of the Driving Test, as it is clearly needed for many.
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