Automotive

Arrgh. While I was waiting in the bright sunshine, by the side of the road, with a gentle breeze cooling my brow, and as my wife kindly volunteered to walk one block back to the station, (so it was a short wait), I thought about all the other times I've r...  

three times and neither time was easy-going. First time in a European city center as a passenger in my father's Golf MkI the car stopped dead in the middle of a very busy intersection and I had to help him push it a few hundred feet to safety (super embar... 

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First time must have been around 1995 ... i remember passing a bunch of young girls in a Ford Escort Convertible at 250 kph on the highway ... . On my way back i passed them again at top speed . A few kilometers after the exit the bike stalled and immedia...  

1) As a summer student job I used to work harvests: driving combines, running grain trailers and working down the soil for next years seed - all with some enormous farm kit. Once ran out of diesel in one of these late at night luckily in a field rather th...