Mission Complete!
Today for my job I had to do a trip to Waterford City and County to deliver a few thingys and also collect a broken thingy, my boss gave me the keys to the company "truck" yesterday, I was like "em dude, I drive a Mini", he said I would be grand, I sort of feigned an agreement and then I was off. This morning my heart was pounding in work, its a Land Rover Discovery Long Wheel Base Commercial, so lots of blind spots and its about 20 foot long, a LOT longer than poor little Muriel who was left in the yard in work all day and tonight too, I hope no boy Minis have come along and been bold with her, well unless they were really hot boy Minis :)
Anyway, I was great, the Discovery was automatic, something which I was mildly frightened of. I had driven the manual one last week but I was not alone, but today I jumped into her and looked down, no clutch, aaaaaaaaaagh!!! It was grand, a tad annoying when wanting to take off really fast and that, but other than that grand. I didnt hit anything, well I softly grazed a picnic table in a petrol station but not a mark on her.
Crap end to the day though, finally got home after driving from 10.30am till 7pm and there was a number 4 bendy bus broken down ACROSS my driveway, so therefore I could not drive the giant Land Rover in there, they took three hours to fix it, who breaks down across a driveway, fuckin Dublin Bus does, we're not there yet lads, but we're getting there, is that the trains? Who cares, I was annoyed!! The driver was very apologetic I suppose!
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"I softly grazed a picnic table"
Sheer poetry!
Posted by: TUG | December 4, 2007 10:30 PM
Ugh- yeah driving my mum's automatic onto an onramp at 100kph and then I applied the clutch to change gears- which turned out to be the brake. Bad!
Posted by: Destructor | December 4, 2007 10:48 PM
It's easy to take off fast in an automatic - Just plant your foot as hard as you can on the loud pedal and don't let go!
When we were in Alaska we had a Mitsubishi Outlander 4x4 auto. Neither myself or Nikki had driven auto before. I got used to it pretty quick, and did most of the driving. The first time Nikki drove it she was a tad over-enthusiastic with the gas and the Rough Guide to Alaska flew off the dashboard and hit me in the nuts.
Posted by: Matt | December 4, 2007 11:45 PM
Yeah it's easy I suppose, but not controlled, plus this was a very heavy thing with very very harvy stuff in the back which didnt help. I can't parallel park it but I surprised myself this morning when I drove it back into work and I managed to reverse it into a spot with a car either side of me. I hate it though, it is the epitomy of what I hate in a vehicle, and especially where I live, not like I am going to be getting any off roading done now is there? (Oh it has two gear knobs, one for normal and one for rough terrain!)
Posted by: Babs | December 5, 2007 9:03 AM
PS: I did only softly graze the picnic table. it was basically in a really stupid place and had already been bashed about a bit, I was using it as my marker for turning when all of a sudden I sort of forgot that I was in a Land Rover, oops!
Posted by: Babs | December 5, 2007 9:07 AM