Fonzie moment that just didnt come off?
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Ok, we've seen the fastest drivers, the worst prangs and the most in a car but how many of us have ended up with egg on our face when trying to be a little bit special in the car. Three predominant one stick in my mind ALL of which done at 17 ( even worse in a Fiat Uno )
Driving up to lights cigarette in hand and spot a car full of beautiful baby angels next to me...Que the Fonz in me, sunglasses on...music loud and smoking like a God ( remember its a fiat Uno ). Cigarette finished go for the big flick only to hit the car roof and have it bounce off my leg into the back of the car. Spend the next few mins frantically searching for the burning end, miss the lights, get beeped a lot and stall when the lights go green again...
next...again lady in the car, tarting around in a car park drving too fast...misjudge down ramp scrap whole o/s of car and get laughed at by lady. Even worse go home protesting my innocance about how some tw*t reversed into me...mum blows her top and phones NCP demanding to see the video tapes dad takes car to bodyshop to be told by the mechanic it was scrape damage...no way could i have been reversed into.
Finally, strip racing after work in a very large out of town shopping car park - remember fiat uno. Me vs Rover 200 pouring with rain fly past shop i worked at with employees standing outside yank handbrake spin the car 720 degrees and almost soil myself with fear... whoops
Driving up to lights cigarette in hand and spot a car full of beautiful baby angels next to me...Que the Fonz in me, sunglasses on...music loud and smoking like a God ( remember its a fiat Uno ). Cigarette finished go for the big flick only to hit the car roof and have it bounce off my leg into the back of the car. Spend the next few mins frantically searching for the burning end, miss the lights, get beeped a lot and stall when the lights go green again...
next...again lady in the car, tarting around in a car park drving too fast...misjudge down ramp scrap whole o/s of car and get laughed at by lady. Even worse go home protesting my innocance about how some tw*t reversed into me...mum blows her top and phones NCP demanding to see the video tapes dad takes car to bodyshop to be told by the mechanic it was scrape damage...no way could i have been reversed into.
Finally, strip racing after work in a very large out of town shopping car park - remember fiat uno. Me vs Rover 200 pouring with rain fly past shop i worked at with employees standing outside yank handbrake spin the car 720 degrees and almost soil myself with fear... whoops
erm, i've done two things that really bug me... both in mcdonalds car park - which bugs me even more 'cos i don't want you to think i hang around there or anything...
the first was in my astra, i was very tired after work and me and a mate were hungry so we went over to maccy d's and i tried swinging round to go down the drive through, but was too tired to turn mounted the kerb and kit a yellow wooden post, couldn't be arsed to reverse and just floored it bending the post out the way and carrying on down to get food. (well, not food but you know...)
the second time was in my cavalier, which either gets admired or laughed at, i followed a mate into md's and went to find a parking space, there weren't one, so i shot out the car park, on full opersite lock in a powerslide (my car does that when its wet) stop at the side of the road, in front of some lads who are suitable impressed, open the door a bit hard it swings open gets to the end of the hinges and swings back and a twat my head good time on the door... which really hurt!!! and i was so embarassed i had to wheelspin away just to get some respect back!
the first was in my astra, i was very tired after work and me and a mate were hungry so we went over to maccy d's and i tried swinging round to go down the drive through, but was too tired to turn mounted the kerb and kit a yellow wooden post, couldn't be arsed to reverse and just floored it bending the post out the way and carrying on down to get food. (well, not food but you know...)
the second time was in my cavalier, which either gets admired or laughed at, i followed a mate into md's and went to find a parking space, there weren't one, so i shot out the car park, on full opersite lock in a powerslide (my car does that when its wet) stop at the side of the road, in front of some lads who are suitable impressed, open the door a bit hard it swings open gets to the end of the hinges and swings back and a twat my head good time on the door... which really hurt!!! and i was so embarassed i had to wheelspin away just to get some respect back!
mungo said:Have I just stumbled across the Max Power section of PH
yes!!! ruddie!!!
aiiii i think what we're both trying to say here is we're young (or were at least) and very foolish!!!
we'll soon progress to driving tvr's at 160mph and spinning lotus elises like the rest of you, just give us a couple of years!!!
Well, I roll into the local filling station to give the Govt. some more of my hard-earned, and am merrily glugging unleaded into the 390 when two babes in a Peugeot 206 pull up. The driver gets out to fill up, and the passenger leans over, winds down the window and says "Hey, nice car!"
So I grin and say "Never mind the car, how about the driver?" and they both fall about the place....
Doh.
Ian
So I grin and say "Never mind the car, how about the driver?" and they both fall about the place....
Doh.
Ian
Somthing that I witnessed, cant remember if I have posted this before so excuse me if I have...
Sitting in Bracknell bus station (abysmal place) before I started driving. To give you an idea, the station is 3 queues of bus lanes that cars are not allowed down.
Billy Novaboy (guess 17 years old) drives down in his rusty "done up" nova and rags it down the queue. Some kids waiting for a bus next to me (his mates?) started egging him on.
As he left the bus queue he tried to wheelspin out the bus station. On doing this (out of a sharp left bend) he lost control and wheelspun straight into a lampost. The car was stuck there and he had to call the AA out. Then his (dad?) turned up and gave him a right bolloking for being such a twat, all this in front of the mates he was showing off too! It took 2 AA vans and a fire engine to cut his car out of the lamppost.
As much of a nob that he was I did feel sorry for him, especially when he started crying.....
I even missed 2 buses to watch this amazing show!!
Sitting in Bracknell bus station (abysmal place) before I started driving. To give you an idea, the station is 3 queues of bus lanes that cars are not allowed down.
Billy Novaboy (guess 17 years old) drives down in his rusty "done up" nova and rags it down the queue. Some kids waiting for a bus next to me (his mates?) started egging him on.
As he left the bus queue he tried to wheelspin out the bus station. On doing this (out of a sharp left bend) he lost control and wheelspun straight into a lampost. The car was stuck there and he had to call the AA out. Then his (dad?) turned up and gave him a right bolloking for being such a twat, all this in front of the mates he was showing off too! It took 2 AA vans and a fire engine to cut his car out of the lamppost.
As much of a nob that he was I did feel sorry for him, especially when he started crying.....
I even missed 2 buses to watch this amazing show!!
Happened to someone p*ssing me off - so Involved but it happened to him not me.
two lanes, at the end the left goes straight on, right turns right - no option. BoB in xr3i drives past queue in left lane to bottom of right hand lane - I'm at the front of the left hand lane (lights on red) he's in the front of the right hand lane (feeder light also on red). My lights go green, (his don't) he flick me the bird and tries to out accelerate me (i'm driving a 1.3 fiesta at the time) - he nearly does it but prangs the reservation instead of stopping, he also failed to notice the white volvo estate with the pretty blue lights on top right behind him. Top Day !!
two lanes, at the end the left goes straight on, right turns right - no option. BoB in xr3i drives past queue in left lane to bottom of right hand lane - I'm at the front of the left hand lane (lights on red) he's in the front of the right hand lane (feeder light also on red). My lights go green, (his don't) he flick me the bird and tries to out accelerate me (i'm driving a 1.3 fiesta at the time) - he nearly does it but prangs the reservation instead of stopping, he also failed to notice the white volvo estate with the pretty blue lights on top right behind him. Top Day !!
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