To close for comfort

[Ingwe]

If only I had been driving my motorhome instead of my motorbike I might well have become a millionaire in however long it takes to pick up a million pounds from the middle of the road. To be honest I don't know exactly how many notes there were crammed into the 3ft sq bundle that rolled out the back of a GPO van. The bundle hit the road and split wide open in front of me. For what seemed like ages I just sat on my bike thinking how the hell can I carry this lot on the pillion seat. Anyway the van done a U turn and I helped the driver re-load, but what really bugged me was when he told me all the notes had been taken out of circulation and were going to be burnt and none of them had been marked.

And then you woke up and found you’d shredded the newspaper!?

 

[nicholsong]

I (a serving Fire Officer at the time), started to make the cars safe and then together with my wife (an SRN) started to treat the injured while we awaited yelp. It turned out later that the concrete block had been ballast n the back of an articulated lorry being sped for driver training. It had not been secured and gradually moved until it had fallen off.

We were surprised later to realise that no one we had ordered about had questioned who were in order to tell them what to do.

As a serving Fire Officer you probably had the 'voice of authority'. Bit like me when I put on my 'Captain speaking' tone.

It was lucky that you as a couple with the requisite skills arrived at the scene. Well done.

Geoff

 

[Ingwe]

A consultant anaesthetist I know and his wife were driving in L.A. when they came across the aftermath of a serious car crash. The car, with occupants still in it were in a shallow ravine, having left the road. The anaesthetist stopped, jumped out of his car and started down the ravine. Just as he reached the car, he heard a shout of “Cut!!” They’d only chanced onto a film set. The director wasn’t best pleased!

 

[pelican]

Not sure which way this one was going

 

[pelican]

sorry repeated message deleted

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[ambulancekidd]

I always apply the Two Second Rule & if someone jumps into that space, I simply back off & build the two seconds back up again.
Getting angry about it is pointless, the driver who took the space doesn't care if they've upset you.
For the blokes in particular, take the testosterone out of the driving seat & things become so much easier, being competitive at the wheel leads to trouble not to mention stress.

 

[Vipar]

One of my ex - colleagues was driving down a country lane, saw a pile straw in the road and proceded to drive over it only to discover it contained a 'broken' toilet that had fallen off a lorry.

It's amazing what a ceramic toilet can do to a metal oil sump!

Robert

I bet it looked like a bad case of diarrhoea ????

 

[Vipar]

Not sure which way this one was going

Just wait till Sunday it is supposed to be heavy rain then they can float it away???

 

[Ingwe]

Again, showing my age, I was driving listening to Tony Blackburn when a traffic announcement was made saying a truck of stawberries had overturned on the M4. Tony, without a pause added that if there were any lorries carrying evaporated milk, they should make their way over to the accident site. I did chuckle.

 

[Flook]

To continue with the unrelated MH experiences, I can think of many humorous things that happened to me during my travels . One of the most frightening however took place when riding my motorbike down a country lane in the middle of nowhere in the dead of night. Absolutely pitch black and I was busting for a pee. I pulled over rested my bike on its stand and stood close to a nearby hedgerow relieving myself. I was approaching pure bliss when this ruddy cow suddenly thrust its head through the hedge with an almighty bellow. That's the closest I've ever come to a heart attack

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