I really did nearly need Thunderbird 2 this snow-filled afternoon!
Just had a winter nightmare of a dog walk with Blue boy!
It started badly and got worse!
1. Missus Moonbase took my house and car keys shopping by mistake
2. Spare house key found but the spare car keys only open the boot on my car so it meant climbing over all the seats
3. The country lane to the fields was covered in slush and black ice
4. It was unusually dark in the countryside but the dog walk was fine
5. Then I reversed to leave the lane only to get stuck behind a iced hump of ground!
6. No amount of revving worked. Rubber was burning.
7. The boot of my car was just three feet from a stream and pushed into brash and bramble
8. I wrestled through the bramble to get to two old large foot-well mats in the boot
9. I placed one tightly under each rear tyre
10. I revved again and thank goodness, the tyres bit and off I sped off into the pitch black leaving the mats behind!
11. I also left the boot door wide open but didn't know. Blue was in the boot!
12. I drove gingerly down the icy lane looking for somewhere else flat to turn around
13. I reversed into a farm entrance and heard a clunk but thought nothing of it [I'd reversed the boot door into a high farm gate]
14. I drove slowly back down the lane direction home
15. I passed two torch-bearing dog-walkers who shouted 'Your boot's open!'
16. I pulled up, looked at a cold Blue and shut the boot remembering not to shut the driver's door or else I'd be stuck outside
17. Got home! Adrenaline still pumping!
18. Had a beer! Blue had tea.
What would you have done?
Kev's Thunderbird 1 arrived just as I'd left!
[pic: Kevin's scratch built Thunderbird 1]
What a chain of predicaments! Poor Blue! Poor Woodsy too! Fortunately all turned out all right in the end.
ReplyDeleteYes, thanks Arto. Of course in Finland you have to deal with proper amounts of snow and ice all the time without any problem! ha ha
DeleteRemember,"what doesn't kill you makes you stronger".After that ordeal,Han Solo would consider you strong enough to wrestle a Gundaark.
ReplyDeleteha ha! the force is strong in this one! or maybe its farce!
DeleteWhere is International Rescue when you need them?!?!
ReplyDeleteThey're too busy saving the world Zigg!
DeleteLOL I hate to laugh but having been born and raised in Winter Wonderland I can relate. A part of my winter time emergency kit that I stored in the trunk (boot) were heavy weights of some sort (bags of sand, bricks, whatever). yes, it made gas mileage suck but was great for traction. To help get me out of jams like the one you found yourself in were about a half dozen old bath towels! yes! Placed under the rear wheels they helped me get out of several predicaments and could always be washed and re-used - unlike a shovel full of sand.
ReplyDeleteSounds like you know what youre doing Ed! ha ha. Be prepared eh. I will go and retrieve my floor mats later, that's if they are still there along the lane! ha ha. By the way, where's Winter Wonderland?
DeleteHope you're going back for those rubber mats, Woodsy. The countryside litter-police will be after you otherwise.
DeleteYou;ll be pleased to know I go the mats back Kid! Still there in the mud where I drove over them!
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