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Offline lostdreamer

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« on: September 13, 2006, 15:24:03 »
Tempting fate. Don't do it boys and girls.
She will only stick two fingers up at you and laugh.

We recently had a a decent thunderstorm, and I was was dead chuffed I didn't end up crawling around in a puddle during it towning someone who had drowned their car.

Well, someone was broken down in dysfunction junction today. I said hello. He didn't understand. Is it just an unrealistic expectation of mine to expect someone who lives in england, & drives a car on english plates to be able to speak english?

Well, I do my best to try and get some sense out of him, and manage to get a few one or two word sentences.
Including the fact that he had been there for two hours and I was the first to stop.
He waves an AA card at me, I phone them, then stick the tow rope on him and start to drag him into Sainsbury’s carpark - the redeeming features of which are that there is a cafe nearby, and it doesn't resemble a trunk road.

"Have you been on tow before?"
"Yes. Many times." (I am typing in a thick eastern block accent)
"Are you sure? You have used a towrope before?" (At the time I was pointing at the rope just to make my point.)

Oooh, the little liar. So, we head through the junction with me trying to keep things nice and smooth and predictable, and him trying to break either his tow eye, my tow rope or my face. Half way through my little zook goes flying backwards as he attempts to towstart. Git.

Needless to say, once I got him into the carpark I didn't hang around to see if the AA were able to help him.

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« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2006, 19:45:27 »
as soon as i relised he couldnt speak english i would have drove off,

he could have quite easily drove into your car and damaged it.
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« Reply #2 on: September 13, 2006, 20:39:12 »
That's funny chit right there!  It's nice to know that they don't all live over here and they are all over the world.  He's welcome to run into the rear of my truck.  I'd feel sorry for anyone that does!
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« Reply #3 on: September 13, 2006, 20:47:18 »
I hope if i ever break down in Morocco or Egypt etc they don't feel the same way as you guys do! There are plenty of reasons to dislike people without adding 'speaks another language' to the list I reckon :)
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« Reply #4 on: September 13, 2006, 23:22:26 »
I don't have a problem with him speaking another language. It would just be nice if he had spoken english as well, you know.
Especially as he was driving a car on english plates. Which presumably means he, you know, lives and works somewhere in england and isn't just here to see his relatives.

As for parking in the back of me, hey, I thought that was why they fitted 4x4's with tow hitches. Everyone else says it is something to do with trailers, but I recon they are there to stop BMW's before they get as far as the paintwork.

But none of that is why I needed to rant about it. It was the fact that he had been there for two hours before I stopped. I mean, what if something had actually been wrong? What if he had a heart attack or something? Several hundred people just drove on by not giving a damn.

Oh well, off to find another beer in the fridge.

 






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