What has your "friend" been up to?
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The Nur said:
How long has your friend been driving? 5 times in 3 weeks, even with a speed awareness course, is a ban isn't it?
Ermm, 4 years i think, yea i would think he will be getting banned, apparently he is off to court though. not driving car at present now as took off road. Also has sent his liscence off.
My friend has recently learnt the expensive way that unpleasant noises coming from the timing belt tensioner are best dealt with before it gives up totally and causes the belt to jump a few teeth, thus mangling 80% of the valves in the cylinder head.
On the plus side, he's now a lot more familiar with the intimate working of his TDI and has bought & made several new and useful tools for future fun.
On the plus side, he's now a lot more familiar with the intimate working of his TDI and has bought & made several new and useful tools for future fun.
Rude-boy said:
PS I'd better not tell you how old my friend was when he found an old .177 with his mate at his mates house and worked out that the bits of shaped metal in a tin his mate had found a few weeks earlier might fit in one end...
Pardon me, but I believe that the whole point of this thread is that you should.
My friend reversed into his house, twice. Afer the first one, he had the bumper repainted out of vanity.
He also managed to neatly reverse into a bay parking space on the first attempt, which was both rare and commendable, except that said parking space was already occupied by an oak tree.
My friend locked the key in the boot, a boot that was also home to a collection of other people's Christmas presents, being as it was Christmas Eve. It was snowing.
Oh yes, and the first time my friend drove a car after passing his test, he hired an Astra. He drove it on his own a fair distance without any major incident, including safely overtaking tractors on the rural roads around Bath, which was quite impressive given that he had no experience. At the end of this successful venture he brought it back to the rental branch with not a scratch on it, and crashed it into another hire Astra.
He also managed to neatly reverse into a bay parking space on the first attempt, which was both rare and commendable, except that said parking space was already occupied by an oak tree.
My friend locked the key in the boot, a boot that was also home to a collection of other people's Christmas presents, being as it was Christmas Eve. It was snowing.
Oh yes, and the first time my friend drove a car after passing his test, he hired an Astra. He drove it on his own a fair distance without any major incident, including safely overtaking tractors on the rural roads around Bath, which was quite impressive given that he had no experience. At the end of this successful venture he brought it back to the rental branch with not a scratch on it, and crashed it into another hire Astra.
Edited by trashbat on Tuesday 21st January 13:17
A friend of mine who got stopped by Police in a very heavy downpour for driving `enthusiastically'
with lots of wheel spin etc. who when asked by the traffic officer `whose being a silly boy then?'
replied `Not me, I am not the one standing out in the p*ssing rain!'
We kind of knew instantly that that was not really the answer the officer was looking for.
with lots of wheel spin etc. who when asked by the traffic officer `whose being a silly boy then?'
replied `Not me, I am not the one standing out in the p*ssing rain!'
We kind of knew instantly that that was not really the answer the officer was looking for.
GC8 said:
Pardon me, but I believe that the whole point of this thread is that you should.
Well the neighbour's gnome population did recover. The rabbit didn't though and, with hindsight, my friend should, perhaps, have not taken the rabbit home to this mum to cook for tea...All's well though as that day he was taught how to gut and skin a rabbit and also had a long talk about guns and safety. (most of which he had worked out that afternoon...)
My friend's mate's folks were a bit 'soft'. The sort that would prop a loaded shotgun or two by the back door when they popped in for a cup of tea whilst the kids played in the yard. They did get better in later years after one of them lobbed a gun into the back of their landy pickup and blew a good section of the tail gate out...
Some days I do wonder at how on earth my friend still has all their limbs and has only ever broken their nose. Guns, fires, entire days from dawn until dusk left to their own deivices other than the odd agreed call in and general idea of location being roamed that day.
Infact it reminds me of when my young friend would happily leap off the top of the hay and straw barn on to the bales below without a care in the World as to what might lie under the surface, swimming in balancing pools and ponds and building rafts to sail the larger ones.
TATOR said:
The Nur said:
How long has your friend been driving? 5 times in 3 weeks, even with a speed awareness course, is a ban isn't it?
Ermm, 4 years i think, yea i would think he will be getting banned, apparently he is off to court though. not driving car at present now as took off road. Also has sent his liscence off.Pan Pan said:
A friend of mine who got stopped by Police in a very heavy downpour for driving `enthusiastically'
with lots of wheel spin etc. who when asked by the traffic officer `whose being a silly boy then?'
replied `Not me, I am not the one standing out in the p*ssing rain!'
We kind of knew instantly that that was not really the answer the officer was looking for.
The best one so far!with lots of wheel spin etc. who when asked by the traffic officer `whose being a silly boy then?'
replied `Not me, I am not the one standing out in the p*ssing rain!'
We kind of knew instantly that that was not really the answer the officer was looking for.
My “friend” was very skint when he passed his driving test, aged 17.
Fuel conservation in his Mk2 Escort was of considerable importance to him and so he decided it would be a good idea to coast on downhill sections of road. Pulling up at some traffic lights, (on a hill), late one evening, he decided it would be prudent to switch off the ignition to save a few drops of petrol.
The lights duly changed.
It occurred to my friend that rather than turning the car over on the key to start it, he could coast away from the lights, allowing the car to gather speed as it went downhill.
The car could then be bump started in gear.
And so he just let off the handbrake and let the car roll away from the line.
All went swimmingly well initially, (and the car gathered a respectable speed), until that is my friend heard the ominous “click” as the steering lock engaged.
There then <cough> apparently followed a brief flurry of swearing while he wrestled with the ignition and steering wheel as the car headed across the centre line, toward the offside kerb.
Luckily, it was late at night and nobody was coming the other way.
Unluckily, there was a lamp post on the other side of the road.
My friend was an idiot and was grateful that it wasn’t any more serious.
Fuel conservation in his Mk2 Escort was of considerable importance to him and so he decided it would be a good idea to coast on downhill sections of road. Pulling up at some traffic lights, (on a hill), late one evening, he decided it would be prudent to switch off the ignition to save a few drops of petrol.
The lights duly changed.
It occurred to my friend that rather than turning the car over on the key to start it, he could coast away from the lights, allowing the car to gather speed as it went downhill.
The car could then be bump started in gear.
And so he just let off the handbrake and let the car roll away from the line.
All went swimmingly well initially, (and the car gathered a respectable speed), until that is my friend heard the ominous “click” as the steering lock engaged.
There then <cough> apparently followed a brief flurry of swearing while he wrestled with the ignition and steering wheel as the car headed across the centre line, toward the offside kerb.
Luckily, it was late at night and nobody was coming the other way.
Unluckily, there was a lamp post on the other side of the road.
My friend was an idiot and was grateful that it wasn’t any more serious.
A friend of mine has 6 points for speeding.
He has a bit of history in the last 3 years of driving. Stuck a Corsa in a ditch, rattled a clio off a curb, tearing the wheel off. And went too fast round a corner using another car as a barrier.
He's been taken to court for leaving the scene of an accident and dangerous driving.
Secretly hoping they take his license from him!
He has a bit of history in the last 3 years of driving. Stuck a Corsa in a ditch, rattled a clio off a curb, tearing the wheel off. And went too fast round a corner using another car as a barrier.
He's been taken to court for leaving the scene of an accident and dangerous driving.
Secretly hoping they take his license from him!
Rude-boy said:
Not quite.
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Sounds like our friends had a similar upbringings.
My friend:
Set fire to bog roll while having a crap and playing with a lighter, only to have the whole roll go up burning a streak in the wall paper before he got it under control.
Used to use an old windolene bottle full of petrol as a flamethrower.
Used to lie in the bath flicking water at the electric heater to make it sizzle.
Took shotgun cartridges apart for the gunpowder and one day decided to put the firing cap in a vice and hit it with a hammer and nail. He's not daft (!) though so he held the nail in a pair of pliers. The pliers came I handy removing a couple of shards of brass from his fingers.
He was, frankly, a f
king idiot. 
My "friend" when he was young crashed his dads new car as his girl in the passenger seat had an extra short skirt on and distracted him, he then blamed it on a dog running in front of his car.
the same friend then also crashed his fathers new car into a tree while trying to do doughnuts in the local car park trying to impress girls.
At least he is now to old to worry about these things
the same friend then also crashed his fathers new car into a tree while trying to do doughnuts in the local car park trying to impress girls.
At least he is now to old to worry about these things
My friend decided that it would be a good idea to borrow(steal) a live 2.2 bullet from the firing range when he was an atc cadet.He then thought he would let it off using his Dads vice in the garage containing his Dads Austin Maxi,it was all going swimmingly well but the bullet was stubbornly refusing to go 'off', so he used a nail and a hammer. This worked rather well the bullet did indeed go off ricocheting off the garage wall and through the cardboard box he had thoughtfully put in front of vice to catch the projectile. He was slightly deafened and couldn't find the offending bullet that was until his Dad noticed a hole in his Maxi's front wing and couldn't for the life of him work out what had happened to cause it.
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