Wife and daughter need to get to Yorkshire - Simple?

[aarondbs]

If I was the daughter I would be well peed off! I can remember at 23 having a Cavalier (GLS nothing less!). If my Mum and Dad has telephoned and asked if I could drive them but refused to go in my car which I’d bought with my hard earned I’d have told them to bugger off! What an effing cheek!

I live near Sheffield btw now and I’m often in meetings in central London for 9am so wtf is all this about! It’s wets and wimps like this dragging this country onto its arse.

[aarondbs]

PMacanGTS said:

We don't want any of the North London set like this in Yorkshire. Tell him it can't be done, under any circumstances.

This, we don’t even want them in North Derbyshire.

[DazzaSport]

BenjiS said:

What’s wrong with the Mini? It’s only a couple of hundred miles, it’s not like they’re driving across Europe.

Everything. It looks sh*t and has crap reliability. 😆

[aarondbs]

Sheepshanks said:

My mate's missus won't drive anywhere that involves a right turn.

Move to USA! Right turns are a doddle

[dhutch]

rxe said:

Let’s face it, no one in Yorkshire will be impressed with a diesel Porsche....

WonkeyDonkey said:

Do all your family still use velcro shoes?

I cant believe how much of a fuss you're making of this.

I've travelled to lemans with a mate in an Elise. I've seen people there in Caterhams

I'm sure they'll be fine in an oversized mini.

Jesus wept

;)

I've driven back from the Nurburgring to North Cheshire in the Westfield one hit before now, with rain for half the drive to the ferry, but I will admit I don't see that as totally normal behaviour.


Daniel

[bobbo89]

rxe said:

Let’s face it, no one in Yorkshire will be impressed with a diesel Porsche, but if you get the pilot to land in the cemetery next to the church, you’ll probably get a “man arrives for wedding in metal bird” write up in the local paper, and the villagers will worship you as a minor deity for at least a generation.

Pretty sure all southerners think we all drive around in our Reliant Robins, whippet at our side with a flat cap on!

Reality is very different, Porsche Cayennes are pretty much the norm around my way! Hell, the bloke who lives opposite me when he's not driving his Bentayga he's waiting for his helicopter to pick him up and that's not even in nice Yorkshire its in West Yorkshire FFS!

[jflower]

We once went for a wedding in Yorkshire and we met up in a pub for the evening before the wedding.

All the London mob had been moaning that it took them 3 hours to get to the "North".

We had driven down from Aberdeen and not one of them believed us when we told them we'd been on the road for 7 odd hours .

Can't help the OP - I think everyone has suggested plenty of ideas .

ps have done Aberdeen - Southampton - Aberdeen in 2 days before - but that is quite tiring !

Edited by jflower on Friday 17th May 07:59

[The Mad Monk]

cb1965 said:

the north of England is something akin to undiscovered parts of the Amazon jungle.

That's true.

[jflower]

The Mad Monk said:

cb1965 said:

the north of England is something akin to undiscovered parts of the Amazon jungle.

That's true.

You should have seen the faces of the guys when they realised you could drive another 7 hours north of Yorkshire and not be in the Artic circle

[aarondbs]

The Mad Monk said:

That's true.

Much like London being full of people in Diesel Porsche’s who don’t know how to get two people 200 miles in summer in a country with a four lane M1 running all the way to Leeds. This being the case London must be bereft of common sense, ability to look after oneself without an Uber or an Oyster, and any idea of the real world!

[CustardOnChips]

MuscleSaloon said:

For sure I would say.

Great username BTW.

Thank you

[Nickbrapp]

When I was 23 I rented a Skoda Octavia from enterpise, I had to pay a young driver suecharge if about £8, it can be done. Sounds like you’re being fussy

[MrBarry123]

Durzel said:

rxe said:

Let’s face it, no one in Yorkshire will be impressed with a diesel Porsche, but if you get the pilot to land in the cemetery next to the church, you’ll probably get a “man arrives for wedding in metal bird” write up in the local paper, and the villagers will worship you as a minor deity for at least a generation.

[Big Nanas]

This is pure definition of (*shudder*) SWMBO

[Starfighter]

The OP is just trying to avoid remaking the opening scene from Four Weddings And A Funeral.

https://youtu.be/bjixdVvkfL4

[cobra kid]

Big Nanas said:

This is pure definition of (*shudder*) SWMBO

Absolutely. She sounds dreadful.

[WonkeyDonkey]

DazzaSport said:

Everything. It looks sh*t and has crap reliability. ??

So an improvement on looks over a cayenne then?

[Kuji]

OP's wife needs to get over her fear of the unknown and try it.
Always relying on other people, isn't a positive life skill. You are deliberately setting the scene for an eventual melt down.


Just break up the journey into smaller sprints. That's what motorway services are for.

[WonkeyDonkey]

aarondbs said:

Much like London being full of people in Diesel Porsche’s who don’t know how to get two people 200 miles in summer in a country with a four lane M1 running all the way to Leeds. This being the case London must be bereft of common sense, ability to look after oneself without an Uber or an Oyster, and any idea of the real world!

It's just full of people that are academically smart but retarded in every other way.

[InitialDave]

God, I hope your daughter has managed to avoid turning out as pathetic as your wife.

Tell her to fking get on with it, it's not a long journey at all, and it's a dead easy run once outside the sthole that is London.