Today I drove my car more carefully than...
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... a learner driver with a bootful of liquid nitroglycerin.
The reason being I was transporting my wife's entry to a work charity bake off competition. She had got over excited and baked some monstrosity that was too large for any container we had. I drove to our place of work on my own with this cake on a glass cake stand supported as best I could by coats to stop it sliding around in the rear passenger foot-well of my car.
Honestly I don't think I have ever been so nervous or careful of sudden braking and cornering, I stayed at 29 in the 30's left plenty of room was probably a much "better" in the eyes of legislation, probably not to other road users (one particular lady in a white Seat trying to mate with my rear bumper) driver than I am typically.
I don't believe I was being a pest or causing any danger or being distracted by the movement of the cake (it was in the back I couldn't see it and didn't attempt to for this very reason). But it did highlight to me how complacent I have become with everyday driving. It was nothing like the Top Gear bowl of water challenge over the Belgian Pave, there was no danger of a wet crotch for starters, but it did get me to think and serve as a reminder.
What has made others throw out the unofficial rule book on driving safely with the flow of traffic? For my drive to work it seems like I had the homemade version of an insurance black-box with me. I now no longer know what the right balance is, I am sure it is somewhere in-between these two states.
I was careful but probably not as extreme as this the first time I had a baby (it wasn't mine so couldn't knock up another one) to transport in my car.
The reason being I was transporting my wife's entry to a work charity bake off competition. She had got over excited and baked some monstrosity that was too large for any container we had. I drove to our place of work on my own with this cake on a glass cake stand supported as best I could by coats to stop it sliding around in the rear passenger foot-well of my car.
Honestly I don't think I have ever been so nervous or careful of sudden braking and cornering, I stayed at 29 in the 30's left plenty of room was probably a much "better" in the eyes of legislation, probably not to other road users (one particular lady in a white Seat trying to mate with my rear bumper) driver than I am typically.
I don't believe I was being a pest or causing any danger or being distracted by the movement of the cake (it was in the back I couldn't see it and didn't attempt to for this very reason). But it did highlight to me how complacent I have become with everyday driving. It was nothing like the Top Gear bowl of water challenge over the Belgian Pave, there was no danger of a wet crotch for starters, but it did get me to think and serve as a reminder.
What has made others throw out the unofficial rule book on driving safely with the flow of traffic? For my drive to work it seems like I had the homemade version of an insurance black-box with me. I now no longer know what the right balance is, I am sure it is somewhere in-between these two states.
I was careful but probably not as extreme as this the first time I had a baby (it wasn't mine so couldn't knock up another one) to transport in my car.
Just after going raspberry picking. Or wait, I should have. I didn't. I was driving a 86hp Fiat Punto. I wasn't long passed my test. I took a corner a little quickly ... almost lost it ... just recovered. Raspberries. Everywhere. Have you ever tried to get raspberries out of the nooks and crannies of a car ... all they do is smush into the surfaces ...
Berkshire bred said:
Sorry I don't normally do these posts but really, all of that to tell us you drove a cake somewhere.
I thought this was a motoring forum where we talked about speed, nice cars or at the very least something remotely interesting. Maybe I am expecting to much.
Thanks for saving me the effort I thought this was a motoring forum where we talked about speed, nice cars or at the very least something remotely interesting. Maybe I am expecting to much.
50 miles, some of which was on bumpy single track roads, with one of my Mum’s themed cakes (I assume it’s against PH rules to promote her business on here 
) on the passenger seat.
Or 20 miles moving our kittens to our new home, one of whom always managed to produce the holy trinity of bodily fluids whenever she went in the car.
I think the cat one was the worst because, despite my best efforts, after a few minutes the car began to fill with the unmistakable odour of cat piss, s
t and vomit.
) on the passenger seat. Or 20 miles moving our kittens to our new home, one of whom always managed to produce the holy trinity of bodily fluids whenever she went in the car.
I think the cat one was the worst because, despite my best efforts, after a few minutes the car began to fill with the unmistakable odour of cat piss, s
t and vomit. Berkshire bred said:
Sorry I don't normally do these posts but really, all of that to tell us you drove a cake somewhere.
I thought this was a motoring forum where we talked about speed, nice cars or at the very least something remotely interesting. Maybe I am expecting to much.
tI thought this was a motoring forum where we talked about speed, nice cars or at the very least something remotely interesting. Maybe I am expecting to much.
t. - too
I'll never forget the time, about 20 years ago now, me and a mate had been to the local off licence and bought 48 cans of beer for a party. Beers were sat on the back seat of my Punto. A car pulled out of a side turning directly in front of me, forcing me to slam on, and the beer cans to hit the back of the front seats.
I set off again and we wondered what the strange hissing sound was - quickly stopped again as we realised it was a beer can spraying the roof of the car with beer.
Never really got rid of the smell, it always came back on warm days.
I set off again and we wondered what the strange hissing sound was - quickly stopped again as we realised it was a beer can spraying the roof of the car with beer.
Never really got rid of the smell, it always came back on warm days.
Berkshire bred said:
Sorry I don't normally do these posts but really, all of that to tell us you drove a cake somewhere.
I thought this was a motoring forum where we talked about speed, nice cars or at the very least something remotely interesting. Maybe I am expecting to much.
Just an effort to amuse, I will save hitting the start new post button until I have something more appropriate to post. I will look out for Alfa Romeos to bait on my way home.I thought this was a motoring forum where we talked about speed, nice cars or at the very least something remotely interesting. Maybe I am expecting to much.
As for takeaway runs, always go twos up for those. I had to throw away car mats after a carelessly sealed Tupperware of fish soup leaked all over the footwell, I managed to convince myself the smell never really went. I was happy to see the back of that car.
Moonpie21 said:
Berkshire bred said:
Sorry I don't normally do these posts but really, all of that to tell us you drove a cake somewhere.
I thought this was a motoring forum where we talked about speed, nice cars or at the very least something remotely interesting. Maybe I am expecting to much.
Just an effort to amuse, I will save hitting the start new post button until I have something more appropriate to post. I will look out for Alfa Romeos to bait on my way home.I thought this was a motoring forum where we talked about speed, nice cars or at the very least something remotely interesting. Maybe I am expecting to much.
As for takeaway runs, always go twos up for those. I had to throw away car mats after a carelessly sealed Tupperware of fish soup leaked all over the footwell, I managed to convince myself the smell never really went. I was happy to see the back of that car.
DanielSan said:
Indian takeaway in the passenger seat. That focuses a man’s mind, but at the same time if a pedestrian walks out and the takeaway leans to far forward and looks like it’s going over in accelerating again and sacrificing another man’s life for my next meal!
Thats easy - just open the glove box, hook the carrying handles over the corner or position the handles so the latch holds them, and close the glovebox.Bag will swing, nothing will spill.
Or have an old crisp box in the footwell, stick the bag in that.
Had a similar thing, had to transport my brothers wedding cake some twenty miles across Milton Keynes and the retched A422! It was the day of the wedding as well, so had it gone wrong, well I would have gone from best man to man who hasn't been seen since the morning of the wedding "it's a mystery officer honestly we have no idea where he is, do you like our new patio?"
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