Re: What's going on outside your house?

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Thu Nov 24, 2022 4:26 pm

SiberianPrincess’sMidriff wrote:Roadworks. Road Closure. Coaches reversing backwards.

Road now open, looks like the ol' honeydippers have done their work and fixed the sewer pipe, or whatever it was they were doing.

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Fri Dec 09, 2022 4:13 pm

Car going into the back of a parked van, I think someone forgot to put their handbrake on.

Maybe.

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Fri Dec 09, 2022 4:40 pm

I told them, and potential problem of the car rolling down and damaging my car is averted.

angel

by Butterfield Fri Dec 09, 2022 4:50 pm

I used to live on a road on a steep hill, and over the years a number of parked cars rolled down the road, including at least one visitor to our house when they hadn't left the car in gear or whatever. That car simply ended up in a hedge a bit further down the road, but it was still quite shocking.

Another car - a big people carrier - opposite our house rolled down their drive and ended up on top of their front wall, partly demolishing it. If that wall hadn't have stopped it the car could have ended up on our front wall.

by Fangirl Three Sat Dec 10, 2022 5:31 am

I lived in a house on a steep hill for 16 years, but experienced no issues with vehicles rolling away during that time.

What mainly used to happen was lorries and buses getting stuck during icy weather.

by cosmictanya Fri Dec 16, 2022 9:05 am

When I opened the curtains this morning, there was a very small Robin redbreast sitting on the windowsill, peering in, hopping about from side to side. I thought he might want to come in, so I opened the window gently, but he stayed where he was for a while before he flew off.

by cosmictanya Fri Dec 16, 2022 9:10 am

I have never seen a parked car rolling down a hill either. I thought it was just a bad plot device in cheap films and derivative sitcoms.

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Fri Dec 16, 2022 9:13 am

My car got serviced as was dropped off by the nice man, it was raining so I thought, ah just leave it.

2 hours later a woman appears at the door saying that my car had rolled up behind hers and was doing so when she moved it, and could I stop it from doing that?

Daft bugger had forgotten to put the handbrake on.

Oh, and my car was damaged once when some numpty forgot to put his hand brake on, I had to have the rear bumper re-sprayed. They paid for it. evil2