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Dec. 8th, 2008 02:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dubdobdeeok i wz sposed to get home LAST NIGHT but instead spent a freezing evening waiting -- first on the hard shoulder, then in various LORRY PARKS -- for the AA
clutch = EPIC FAIL as i wz merging from M6 into M1, so i had* to fishtail wildly w/o power of acceleration across three lanes of traffic (all now faster than me and not expecting me to be appearing from the side i was appearing), and onto the "safety" of the hard shoulder (at the bit of the motorway where the AA and the police
advise you do NOT sit in the car, for fear of being smashed into from behind by an artic w.steering trouble, but instead hide behind the barrier up near the phone 150 yards away) *(this reads more boastful than i meant it to -- it kind of just happoened, i didn't have time to be skilful or frightened really)
did i mention it was QUITE COLD OUT last night
also that AA men cannot drive more than 4.5 hours w/o a 45 minute rest, so 15 mins from dad's house -- in telford service station -- i had to sit in the AA man's cab for three quarters of an hour, while he read liddell-hart's history of the second world war (not aloud; i should have asked him to read it aloud)
then when we got to dad's house the AA man decided the lorry would not fit through the gate, so we had to change plan and dump the car on the forecourt of the place that will (i hope) mend it, and he gave me a lift back as far as his lorry could fit and i carried all my luggage through the dark wood to snatch five hours sleep before DOING IT ALL AGAIN THIS MORNING (except this time i got to london and to work, where i now am -- and no one else is)
clutch = EPIC FAIL as i wz merging from M6 into M1, so i had* to fishtail wildly w/o power of acceleration across three lanes of traffic (all now faster than me and not expecting me to be appearing from the side i was appearing), and onto the "safety" of the hard shoulder (at the bit of the motorway where the AA and the police
advise you do NOT sit in the car, for fear of being smashed into from behind by an artic w.steering trouble, but instead hide behind the barrier up near the phone 150 yards away) *(this reads more boastful than i meant it to -- it kind of just happoened, i didn't have time to be skilful or frightened really)
did i mention it was QUITE COLD OUT last night
also that AA men cannot drive more than 4.5 hours w/o a 45 minute rest, so 15 mins from dad's house -- in telford service station -- i had to sit in the AA man's cab for three quarters of an hour, while he read liddell-hart's history of the second world war (not aloud; i should have asked him to read it aloud)
then when we got to dad's house the AA man decided the lorry would not fit through the gate, so we had to change plan and dump the car on the forecourt of the place that will (i hope) mend it, and he gave me a lift back as far as his lorry could fit and i carried all my luggage through the dark wood to snatch five hours sleep before DOING IT ALL AGAIN THIS MORNING (except this time i got to london and to work, where i now am -- and no one else is)
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Date: 2008-12-08 08:40 pm (UTC)I was once driving a car when the gear shift came off in my hand. I was able to jam it back in and get the car into third (and was not an automatic transmission) and very skillfully kept it from stalling out at intersections by feeding it the right amount of gas and keeping my foot on the clutch.