Mundane facts about your day: Part Deux.

staffordjas

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Glad the very thick fog was only in Stafford as I drove back tonight and not down the motorway.Encountered a scary sight whilst driving back up a fast moving M6 in a part with no lamps . A van broken down in a live lane on the supposedly 'smart motorway' in the dark . No lights on at all and blokes standing close to it on the verge of the carriageway as no grass bank by that bit. Slow lane moving near 70 mph and cars and lorries having to swerve over at the last second as much as they could to avoid smashing into them. Been worried sick all night worrying whether the van occupants managed to come out of it unscathed before the rescue services arrived. :hmm:

Decided to take my big extra bright torch with me next journey , just incase I break down myself and find myself in that situation. Then I can at least put that on top of the car , to hopefully alert people something is there, if the lights go as well!

First time I've been glad of Mr Satnav man still waffling on when I'm back in Stafford. For once I was glad he was pointing out the road islands and junctions, it was like I was driving with a sheet over my windscreen the fog was so dense along Silkmore lane!
 

Thehooperman

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Glad the very thick fog was only in Stafford as I drove back tonight and not down the motorway.Encountered a scary sight whilst driving back up a fast moving M6 in a part with no lamps . A van broken down in a live lane on the supposedly 'smart motorway' in the dark . No lights on at all and blokes standing close to it on the verge of the carriageway as no grass bank by that bit. Slow lane moving near 70 mph and cars and lorries having to swerve over at the last second as much as they could to avoid smashing into them. Been worried sick all night worrying whether the van occupants managed to come out of it unscathed before the rescue services arrived. :hmm:
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Did you report it?

I've seen similar incidents and just dialled 999 straight away and whilst on each occasion the police were already aware of the incident concerned they said they were glad to be told more than once rather than not at all.
 

Mudgie

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the police were already aware of the incident concerned they said they were glad to be told more than once rather than not at all.
Yes indeed as there's no guarantee that the breakdown will have been noticed by the control room staff.
Just extra capacity on the cheap and anything but 'smart'. A disgrace.
 

staffordjas

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Did you report it?

I've seen similar incidents and just dialled 999 straight away and whilst on each occasion the police were already aware of the incident concerned they said they were glad to be told more than once rather than not at all.
I was driving on my own at the time and not got a hands free phone in the car.



I phoned 999 once along the Toll Rd when I was a passenger in hubbys works van , when I saw a car go past us on the other side of the toll going the wrong way in the fast lane. Police took so long asking what make of car it was etc , all I knew was that it was a silver/grey one. I was hoping they were onto it whilst still talking to me.
 
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staffordjas

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Nearly started a fire in my garage whilst attempting to cut a big cardboard box up (rather dangerously) with a stanley knife. :o Blade struck the concrete floor and sparked. :o.
 

staffordjas

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Had a cars hubcap shooting off and hurtling straight in my direction as I was out walking by Knights garage. :o

If the owner of the car driving towards town down Radford Bank with a punctured front tyre is looking for it , it hit the kerb and did a cartwheel across the road ( somehow avoiding approaching cars) and landed in the bus stop pull-in outside The Radford pub.
 

Gramaisc

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Had a cars hubcap shooting off and hurtling straight in my direction as I was out walking by Knights garage. :o

If the owner of the car driving towards town down Radford Bank with a punctured front tyre is looking for it , it hit the kerb and did a cartwheel across the road ( somehow avoiding approaching cars) and landed in the bus stop pull-in outside The Radford pub.
I remember cycling out on Weston Road towards Blackheath Lane, around 1978, when one came off a Datsun Cherry - there were large steel things that had cut-outs in, like a circular cheese grater.

Every time it hit the ground, it seemed to guess which way I was going to turn to avoid a collision, like a bizarre guided missile - I was very grateful when it finally shot past, a few feet away.
 

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
Eric is 8 weeks old today, and clothed weighs in at 7.4kg (or 16lb 5oz). According to charts that means he's gone from 50th percentile at week 2 to 98th, he was a touch under 4kg at birth but lost 10% and it took him into week 3 to recover it. Gained 600g in the last week, and has been out of 0-3 clothes for a while now.

At this rate he'll be getting served by the time he can walk!

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Glam

Mad Cat Woman
Eric is 8 weeks old today, and clothed weighs in at 7.4kg (or 16lb 5oz). According to charts that means he's gone from 50th percentile at week 2 to 98th, he was a touch under 4kg at birth but lost 10% and it took him into week 3 to recover it. Gained 600g in the last week, and has been out of 0-3 clothes for a while now.

At this rate he'll be getting served by the time he can walk!

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My No2 son was the lightest out of the four. 8lb 5oz. He's now well over 6ft, but built like a whippet, he grew at an alarming rate and was wearing clothes for a child 2-3 years older than his own age group.

You both have a beautiful baby, and at 58, I'm not in anyway shape or form broody, lying through me teeth, I loved being preggers.
 

BobClay

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Have to put a caption to this pix by paraphrasing an old joke:

Roy Rogers: "Well Bullet, we're surrounded by animals, we could be at the end of the trail here ..... "

Bullet: "We ? ...... woof woof woof woof."
 

Trumpet

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My No2 son was the lightest out of the four. 8lb 5oz. He's now well over 6ft, but built like a whippet, he grew at an alarming rate and was wearing clothes for a child 2-3 years older than his own age group.

You both have a beautiful baby, and at 58, I'm not in anyway shape or form broody, lying through me teeth, I loved being preggers.
Oddly with the impending new addition to the family, Gurly reckons she fancies the idea of going through pregnancy but without the baby at the end of it bit.
Weird.
 
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