Embarrassments Revisited (Pt 2)

These are in small chunks because Wayne says my lengthy posts are too daunting.

Apologies all round.. I do tend to run off at the keyboard a bit.

Anyway, this one is a request from His Lordship, as it's one of his favourite Karl Screwups.

Back when we lived in town, I used to go to craft classes every Tuesday night. It wasn't very far, but Brighton being what it was, it was a much better idea to take the car rather than walk.

We had three vehicles - my little sports car, Wayne's old Land Rover, and our much loved SUV (a Nissan Terrano). Wayne usually took the Landie to work, but on this particular day he'd taken the Terrano. What I didn't realise was that he'd also taken the big double tandem trailer. He'd backed the vehicle up the drive, and in the twilight (and running late for class because someone had held me up), I didn't see the trailer as I leapt into the Terrano and zoomed off.

I'd sung out a goodbye as I left, and after a few moments he thought to himself "What vehicle did she take? I hadn't disengaged the trailer yet, and she doesn't know how to!"

(Well shucks.. you work it out. A single driveway, you grab the vehicle that's in front and away you go. Not your fault if your focus is as narrow as a rat's in a drainpipe.)

In the mean time, I was blythely approaching a roundabout where I truly DID mean to give way to the vehicle approaching on my right ... cept he was dawdling, I was in a hurry, so I planted my boot and went for it. I did wonder why he screeched to a halt, blared his horn and flipped some rude gestures my way.

Being blonde with a purpose, I airily waved back and kept going.

I got to the parking area at the rear of the building, and noticed there was just enough room to swing my Terrano into one of the outer parks. There'd be just a few feet between my bumper and the one-way roadside, but I'd be legally parked and no harm done.

I collected my stuff, locked the car, and sauntered inside.

I was working for perhaps two or three minutes when my flustered (then) boyfriend came jogging through the door and asked me for the car keys. (Did I mention the room was packed?)

I nonchalantly tossed them to him, wondering aloud what the problem was.

"Oh, " he replied, "I just thought the traffic outside might appreciate me taking the TRAILER off the back of the Terrano, so that they can get past you."

Huh?

I turned and glanced out the window, then died in shame.

Oh. That trailer. I hadn't noticed....

Whoops.