"Sod you then"!, said Pat, and retreated to the back while her friend took the seat next to the driver. Needless to say, an accident occurred, and the passenger next to the driver was severely injured ( the driver was unscathed, as was Pat)
The second story also relates to my cousins, specifically my Aunt Joan. Uncle Norris and his 3 kids were driving home one evening when whoosh! a moped speeds past them. " look at that stupid idiot" remarks my uncle.
As they pulled into their driveway, there's Aunt Joan, late for preparing dinner, disembarking.
Finally, one of my own.
I'm driving on a Jakarta toll road, and suddenly the traffic stops. I decrease speed, but looking into my rear view mirror ( the most important part of a car IMHO), a truck is heading for me at full pelt.
A split second decision puts me into the middle lane ( I was in the "fast lane") and although he rams me, he also takes out a BMW, which lessens the blow.
Two things:
1. Sod?
2. Full “pelt”?
Sounds British or something.
But, beyond that I don’t understand the point of this post.
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FOX 9 Special - ROOM TO LIVE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xP41apGRXk
The “gone global” ad you will share with everyone you know that drives
EMBRACE LIFE
I recall returning to college at the end of Christmas break, in a snow storm that had left quite a bit of slushy, wet snow on the interstate highway. Traffic had slowed to a crawl, all lined up in the “tracks,” with no one willing to chance getting out of them and onto the untracked snow in the left lane.
A large black Lincoln sedan with Kentucky tags came blowing past, slopping wet snow all over everybody’s windshield, with the occupants making faces, pointing and laughing at the wimps crawling along.
We all had the pleasure of watching those faces turn surprised, shocked and then whiten with fear, as the car did several 360 degree turns and went into the median, clipping quite a few aluminum reflector posts as it went.
Nothing serious, no injuries that I could tell, but then again, no one came running to see if they were OK, either.
It was karmic.
We were driving on a two lane highway in California several years ago. Traffic was heavy and there wasn’t any opportunity to pass. A car full of teenagers came roaring past us on the dirt shoulder passing 30 or 40 cars. They were doing at least 80. Pretty soon traffic came to a complete stop. They had flipped their car a mile or two in front of us. The car war really mangled and I never found out if any of them were killed.
Chuck Norris lost both his legs in a car accident....and still managed to walk it off.
How fast is ‘full pelt’ on a moped?
Was driving in rush hour traffic on the freeway. Several cars ahead of me someone was severely tailgating. The car in front of him slams on his brakes, coming to a full stop on the interstate. The tailgater slams on his brakes.
Guy behind the tailgater is driving a pickup truck, and has to follow suit or hit the back of the tailgater.
Nobody has rear ended anyone.
However the tire that was in the back of the pickup truck launches into the air, flies over the tailgater’s car and lands on the roof of the car that originally slammed on his brakes to a full stop on the freeway.
While at the gas station we heard and saw several emergency vehicles and police cars, all with sirens blasting pass by on the freeway. When I got back on the freeway the traffic was backed up to a stand still. It took about fifteen minutes to go about a mile where we found what was causing the back up. There in a tangled mass of wreckage were the two cars and the van I had been previously following.