fright of my life

06;20 this morning and my son's alarm wakes us all up as he gets ready for his paper round. As usual, he draws back his curtains to see what clothes he should wear by looking out the window to see if it's raining or not.
He then come's racing in to our room to tell me my V70 has been stolen.
Wife and I leep out of bed to see from our window, NO CAR.
I race down stairs to find the car is on the driveway and partly parked in to the garage door. The wife did not put the hand brake on properly last night and during the night the car slowly rolled back in to the garage door. Fortunately no damage to car, a slight ding in the garage door, caused by the tow hook. The other bit of luck, my house is a detached linked property by means of my garage. The garage is set quite well back from the front of the houses which means where the car ended up this morning you can't see it from the front bedroom windows. The car managed to roll in a straight line in to the softer option, garage door and not the side aspect of either my house or neighbour's which would have caused scraping marks to the side of the car. After establishing the car was safe we had a strong cup of tea !!!

V70 driver

[Hobblygoblin]

Nasty - it makes you feel sick to the stomach for a moment.

I had a TVR (piece of ****) which I parked in the local shopping mall. With it being fairly low I got used to not being able to find it in car parks and having to note what I had parked next to as a guide to finding it. Having parked the car in the car park, on level three, next to a green and grey Toyota Delica - I went about my shopping. Upon my return to level three I found the green and grey Toyota Delica and a space next to it. Balls. I thought that maybe I had got the level wrong and that it was just coincidence that there was another Delica so I scampered up and down the car park ramps checking all levels only to find nothing. With my tail between my legs I went back into the mall and up to the security desk to explain my predicament - they took the details and called Plod. Plod arrived very promptly and started taking all the details again. Having answered all of Mr. Plods questions he asks me "and where was it parked?", "level three" says me, "and was that north or south car park?"

How was I supposed to know they had TWO car parks? "Sorry Constable..."

[Viper_7]

Originally Posted by Hobblygoblin

How was I supposed to know they had TWO car parks? "Sorry Constable..."

Excellent!!!

V70driver - I bet you have never woken up so quick! From the usual, hitting the sleep button 3 times, scraping out the sleep from your eyes with a trowel, exposing a leg at a time to the relativily cool air on the room, to WHAM! down the stairs taking them all in one go, eyes wide, blood pumping!

Glad it all turned out well in the end, the feeling of your heart in your boots is not a good one.

By the smell and texture, it wasn't my heart in my boots !!!
(sorry to much information)
Wife's ears are still probably ringing !
V70 driver

the feeling of your heart in your boots is not a good one.[/QUOTE]

[LankyTim]

I had a similar thing happen to me a few years ago. I was at work and I took my lorry home to my parents for a lunch time skive. Left it parked outside on the road. Looked out of the window 30 mins later... no lorry....

It had rolled off down the road and ran into a tree. The handbrake had slipped off (maybe I hadnt put it on properly to start with) and with the lorry in gear the truck had slowly started decending the hill, the compression of the engine preventing any speed. Luckily there were no injuries or damage and nobody phoned my boss to say one of his 17 ton lorries was obstructing a road and leaning on a tree! Nowadays I always park with the front wheels turned into ther kerb to the lorry CANT move. I was 21 at the time and the experience gave me grey hair.

[CTCNetwork]

Hi,

That’s a nasty surprise for that time of morning.
Too much adrenalin!!!

Glad it was just the wife and nothing serious..!

Des. . .

AAh I did wander what the pungent smell was, I thought I had suddenly become incontinent. I now know what adrenalin smells like !
V70 driver

Originally Posted by CTCNetwork

Hi,

That’s a nasty surprise for that time of morning.
Too much adrenalin!!!

Glad it was just the wife and nothing serious..!

Des. . .

[Mike_Brace]

It was a handbrake issue that resulted in my first Volvo conversion - the pick-up below. I had parked it on a steep hill above Amlwch Port stepping out to speak to a friend. I left Dai who was seven at the time in the car with a foster child. A few moments later a saw the car gathering speed down the hill, swerving slightly towards the bottom to go between an electric pole and an electric box, through the wall and the tail lift up in the air as it plummeted down a near vertical drop. Rushing down the hill, heart in mouth fearing the worse the car was on its side on the quayside. The door opened and out climbed two unhurt boys.
It turned out the foster child had let of the handbrake and as the car accelerated Dai had grabbed the wheel to successfully avoid the pole. The car had dropped down a near sheer 30 foot drop hitting a retaining wall and ending on its side. The fire brigade attended to deal with the spillage and right the car amazed at how little damage there was. New engine and gearbox mounts, top up of fluids and some secondhand panels saw the car back on the road and started me into collecting and breaking old 240s.
As a result of this Matt who was eleven at the time persuaded me it would be a good idea if he converted it the pick-up.

Mike