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[email protected]>, McBain_v1
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[email protected]') wrote:
> Dave Larrington wrote:
> > My favourites: "Get a real bike!" - from the driver of
> > a LWB Land Rover, in Camdem, and "Get off the road!"
> > from the driver of a Toyota Land Cruiser with all the
> > gangsta accessories that guarantee zero off-road
> > ability by reducing the ground clearance to that of a
> > dachshund.
>
> Now that's some funny $hit
>
> I like the Land Cruiser one, why is it that most people
> who drive these are really short-arses with major "taller
> people issues" ? Either that or pyschotic women who feel
> they need a tank to take their little darlings the 100
> yards to school?
And if you drive down a single-track road round here in the
summer you're bound to pass two or three suburban families
on their holidays or out for a run in the country to see how
the queer and primitive peasants live. You'll recognise them
by the fact that they drive their very new, very large and
very clean 4x4s down the very centre of the road, and expect
everyone else to get completely off the road for them -
because, of course, they're terrified of getting their
beautiful new (and very, very expensive) 4x4 anywhere near
any nasty mud...
The other, much rarer, breed of suburban 4x4 driver causes
even more hilarity in the summer. There's usually one a
year. He (always he) drives his new 4x4 out onto the sand at
low tide. And gets it stuck. And the tide comes in. This
year's Suzuki Grand Vitara was three *days* old when it was
immersed...
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Philby, oddly enough.