Was every plank with a driving license out on the roads in Cardiff and Newport yesterday afternoon???
My drive home was a nightmare of dithering f*rts and idiots who had clearly left their brains in a biscuit tin under their beds....I had more near misses in those 12 miles than I normally endure in a couple of months of the same journey ------------------------------
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18th Jun 2009 1:11 pm
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hmmm... in Newport tomorrow....
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18th Jun 2009 2:00 pm
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Hmm...Newport. Quite a few years ago, I was driving a wagon into Newport when a Rover 2000 came hurtling down the hill, crossed over, in mid air, a set of lights on red, as the car had hit a pavement, and then launched itself into the cab of my truck. I was left holding the steering wheel with the cab demolished, plus my bemused Springer Spaniel was in the footwell on the passenger side, fortunately unharmed. All the owner of the wrecked Rover 2000, which was obviously his pride and joy could say (in a very Welsh lilt) was : "oooh look at me luvly car.." whilst his wife was spreadeagled on the pavement with blood oozing from her forehead. Apparently his false leg got trapped on the accelerator rather than the brake which caused the car to speed up rather than decelerate! My main problem was that, waiting for a lift home in torrential rain, I couldn't get a drink or anything to eat with a very wet and bedraggled spaniel in tow, so eventually the police relkented and looked after the dog, whilst I went in search of a curry and a pint late in the evening. However, when my lift appeared the dog was nowhere to be had. The police had taken him, by mistake, to the dog pound somewhere near Cardiff, so by 1 am in the morning they fetched a rather shaken spaniel back to tne station, and we set off back to Liverpool. The only reason I was driving a truck in Newport was because 2 days earlier I had been driving another truck to Memory Lane Cakes in Cardiff which blew up in Ross on Wye, so I had to get towed in torrential rain from Ross to Cardiff to deliver the coconut. When I got there, after being shunted in and out of the loading bay I went in search of a pint and a curry, eventually reaching a fairly awful pub after a mile, in a deluge, which was surrounded by police, who wouldn't let me in as there was a major fight going on inside. So,I trudged to another pub a mile away again, had a pint and then got curry and chips which was heavily diluted by the incessant rain.
We then had to send 2 vehicles back down, in fog, to retrieve the 2 broken trucks and we got stopped twice on the way down as it was early on a Sunday when trucks are not normally out.
I don't want to go there again.
18th Jun 2009 10:07 pm
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Newport born and bred ...though have lived in the South East over the last 14 years.
Reminiscing:
Lloyds then The Cotton Club and then onto Cinderella Rockefeller for eyeing up the totty ....out at 1am down to the Alamo fish bar for gravy and chips ...then take your seat for the fighting 8)
Going to TJ's to see some band that I'd never heard of who went on to sell millions
Listening to a chap tell his wife...... "I'm goin down the feckin pub ...for a feckin pint ....alrite "
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18th Jun 2009 10:27 pm
PeanutBob
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I think you have to draw a line somewhere..Llandrindod Wells, Builth Wells etc are quite nice, but I'd head back into England after that as it's well dodgy going south after that. I passed by Tintern Abbey last Xmas with dreadful flu for info.
18th Jun 2009 10:43 pm
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I could draw some parallels with much of England too ...but I wouldn't want to offend any more people than I usually do 21 year LR veteran > D2 GS 2003 > D3 S 2006 > D3 HSE 2009 > D4 HSE 2013 > D4 HSE 2015 > D5 HSE 2018 > DS HSE R-Dynamic P300e 2021
18th Jun 2009 10:55 pm
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Back on topic - Stornaway Freelander 2 BG58 BTZ was being driven by a complete jerk on the 50mph section of the M4 through Newport today - seems that the 60mph I was doing in the outside lane was not fast enough for him - I think he was trying to get close enough to read MY speedo never mind his own - to$$er
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