Tell us something really trivial about your life (vol - XIV)
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Changedmyname said:
DickyC said:
Skip this one if you're tired of my day out with my lads on Wednesday. We hired three Caterhams for the day and had a fantastic time around the lanes of Surrey and Sussex. All three were 1.6 Roadsports; the boys had a Series 5 each and I had a Series 3 as I'm a bit diddier than they are. At one point on the return leg we were following a single decker bus at about 45 to 50mph. The convoy was No.2 son, a gap, No1 son, a gap, me, then no gap and a woman about my age hunched over the steering wheel of a Vauxhall Meriva. Honestly, she was inches behind me. The road straightened a bit, there was a car coming towards us in the distance and the Caterham Contingent blasted off as one. So did the lady in the Meriva. Except she didn't have as much "blast" potential as we did. We were well past the bus when we passed the opposing car which was now braking heavily at the sight of a bus with a small MPV halfway along its length attempting to overtake. The
guy who had been forced to brake flashed the miscreant long and hard. And what did she do, from her precarious position? She flashed him back. What? Are you f
king mad, woman? You're on the wrong side of the road in the teeth of opposing traffic on a narrow country road and you're cross?
guy who had been forced to brake flashed the miscreant long and hard. And what did she do, from her precarious position? She flashed him back. What? Are you f
king mad, woman? You're on the wrong side of the road in the teeth of opposing traffic on a narrow country road and you're cross? Aizle said:
Changedmyname said:
DickyC said:
Skip this one if you're tired of my day out with my lads on Wednesday. We hired three Caterhams for the day and had a fantastic time around the lanes of Surrey and Sussex. All three were 1.6 Roadsports; the boys had a Series 5 each and I had a Series 3 as I'm a bit diddier than they are. At one point on the return leg we were following a single decker bus at about 45 to 50mph. The convoy was No.2 son, a gap, No1 son, a gap, me, then no gap and a woman about my age hunched over the steering wheel of a Vauxhall Meriva. Honestly, she was inches behind me. The road straightened a bit, there was a car coming towards us in the distance and the Caterham Contingent blasted off as one. So did the lady in the Meriva. Except she didn't have as much "blast" potential as we did. We were well past the bus when we passed the opposing car which was now braking heavily at the sight of a bus with a small MPV halfway along its length attempting to overtake. The
guy who had been forced to brake flashed the miscreant long and hard. And what did she do, from her precarious position? She flashed him back. What? Are you fking mad, woman? You're on the wrong side of the road in the teeth of opposing traffic on a narrow country road and you're cross?
guy who had been forced to brake flashed the miscreant long and hard. And what did she do, from her precarious position? She flashed him back. What? Are you f
king mad, woman? You're on the wrong side of the road in the teeth of opposing traffic on a narrow country road and you're cross? 
GTIR said:
The only plane with a flight path "over" my house is the Emirates flight from Birmingham to Dubai at 35000ft
The joys of living in East Anglia.
And the odd military one with that spinny thing on top.
(It's gone past already.)
Spinny thing on top? A helicopter?The joys of living in East Anglia.
And the odd military one with that spinny thing on top.
(It's gone past already.)
I know you're actually referring to AWACS, a Boeing E-3 Sentry
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