Things that make you go, "Mmmmmmmmmmmm"!
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Popped out early this AM for three bags of bark and one bale of compost (not that this really matters) and took the Jeep. Well it does matter, 'cos a Tiv Wedge with four bales of assorted garden additives has very poor aerodynamics 
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Approaching a roundabout on a dual carriageway I was in the outside lane, there being several lorries ahead in the inside lane. Immediately ahead of me was a Volvo with two people in it (more of this anon ... but you might be slightly ahead of me
).
Immediately behind me (and by that I mean right up my a
e) was a young twerp in a 'modified' Fiesta (six auxilliary lights, tape over the head-lights, excessively flared wings over standard tyres, bolt-on big-bore exhaust ... that sort of thing).
He suddenly pulled out from behind and overtook me and the Volvo on the inside, then pulled out right in front of the Volvo to avoid running in to the lorries, and stamped on his brakes (locking all four wheels) to avoid hitting the stationary traffic in the outside lane.
Naturally the Volvo and I also stood on our brakes, but everyone stopped without incident.
The traffic ahead moved off and the Fiesta pulled on to the roundabout - carving up a car coming around - then squeezed between two cars side-by-side and headed off along the dual carriageway.
The Volvo ... wait for it ... promptly turned into Blackpool Illuminations (mostly blue, white and red) and stopped the twerp within a mile
.
Don't you just love it when that happens?
Streaky
PS - I had tagged the Volvo for what it was (clean, no stickers, unusual mountings on the fascia and windscreen, two gentlemen in white shirts, inserts in rear seat head-rests ... but br me, I forgot to note the index mark 
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. Approaching a roundabout on a dual carriageway I was in the outside lane, there being several lorries ahead in the inside lane. Immediately ahead of me was a Volvo with two people in it (more of this anon ... but you might be slightly ahead of me
). Immediately behind me (and by that I mean right up my a
e) was a young twerp in a 'modified' Fiesta (six auxilliary lights, tape over the head-lights, excessively flared wings over standard tyres, bolt-on big-bore exhaust ... that sort of thing). He suddenly pulled out from behind and overtook me and the Volvo on the inside, then pulled out right in front of the Volvo to avoid running in to the lorries, and stamped on his brakes (locking all four wheels) to avoid hitting the stationary traffic in the outside lane.
Naturally the Volvo and I also stood on our brakes, but everyone stopped without incident. The traffic ahead moved off and the Fiesta pulled on to the roundabout - carving up a car coming around - then squeezed between two cars side-by-side and headed off along the dual carriageway.
The Volvo ... wait for it ... promptly turned into Blackpool Illuminations (mostly blue, white and red) and stopped the twerp within a mile
. Don't you just love it when that happens?
Streaky
PS - I had tagged the Volvo for what it was (clean, no stickers, unusual mountings on the fascia and windscreen, two gentlemen in white shirts, inserts in rear seat head-rests ... but b
r me, I forgot to note the index mark .
Oh sorry that's Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!
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