Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

GDB2222

The motorist who parked up and fell asleep, was he wise? Obviously, he should not have got himself in that position of being so sleepy, but given that he had…

You can't really criticise the motorist who stopped because he saw the word Fire on his dashboard. It just seems sensible to me. Never heard of Adele.

bugslet

But he was listening to the track, he must have spotted that song names come up on the display with previous tracks!

As for falling asleep, the HA take a very dim view of it, as you say you are supposed to pull off the motorway. Most junctions are no more than 15 minutes apart.

PasturesNew

Well, it was check out day, but it's something you leave them to do.... I was persona non grata during the process..... so I went off to Mr T to treat myself to "something nice" ..... and got sucked in by too many crisps as they've a half price offer on 20 packets of Cheese/Onion Walkers. Now ..... I don't need 20 packets.... but they were £2.49; the alternative was a (greedy) six packs for £1.68. But I had to buy the 20 as the others looked like a rip off.

Then, I remembered my non-working phone. Bloke in the phone part of Mr T fiddled with it for ages, trying to do some stuff..... then he took the sim out and said it's not recognising the sim. Then he put it back in .... then he did some more stuff.... then we waited (ages) - and now my phone's back online

TV Licensing have written to me to say "Oi - we don't think you've got a ....."

Car temperature indicator on the dashboard said it was 26 degrees outside..... which is a pleasant hot/heat. I don't know how hot 26 is as I work in "old numbers"..... but it's a pleasant level of "hot summer's day".

Generali

bugslet wrote: »

But he was listening to the track, he must have spotted that song names come up on the display with previous tracks!

As for falling asleep, the HA take a very dim view of it, as you say you are supposed to pull off the motorway. Most junctions are no more than 15 minutes apart.

The falling asleep is the one you'd get away with over here. According to the official numbers, fatigue, drink and speeding are the three killers on Aussie roads.

On holiday weekends and during the long summer holidays we have volunteers sitting in the rest areas giving out free cups of tea/coffee and free biccies (if you're lucky they are doing Kit Kats/Kingstons, even if you're unlucky you'll still get a decent biscuit or 10 out of it). It's really nice if the family are all asleep as you can have a cuppa and a chat.

zagubov

Generali wrote: »

The falling asleep is the one you'd get away with over here. According to the official numbers, fatigue, drink and speeding are the three killers on Aussie roads.

On holiday weekends and during the long summer holidays we have volunteers sitting in the rest areas giving out free cups of tea/coffee and free biccies (if you're lucky they are doing Kit Kats/Kingstons, even if you're unlucky you'll still get a decent biscuit or 10 out of it). It's really nice if the family are all asleep as you can have a cuppa and a chat.

I can't remember if it was here I was reading about how in America its quite routine for people to go on marathon drives over holiday weekends, driving for hours on end on non-landscaped straight-lined roads.

Sounds like a recipe for highway hypnosis. Don't know the figures for death rates for driving in the US but did read a stat on the risk websites saying that 1 in 50 of them will die in a car crash.

Presume Aus has the same problem.

Generali

zagubov wrote: »

I can't remember if it was here I was reading about how in America its quite routine for people to go on marathon drives over holiday weekends, driving for hours on end on non-landscaped straight-lined roads.

Sounds like a recipe for highway hypnosis. Don't know the figures for death rates for driving in the US but did read a stat on the risk websites saying that 1 in 50 of them will die in a car crash.

Presume Aus has the same problem.

Yup. I did the MacKay to Rockhampton run one night after spending the day diving on the Barrier Reef at Airlie Beach. No street lights, no radio reception for most of the journey, Mrs Generali went to sleep and wasn't insured for the hire car anyway.

All along the road was a set of poles marking the edges of the road with white reflectors on my left and red ones on my right. That was basically all I could see. I ended up pulling over for a cigarette (I smoked back then) and got back in the car and paused for a moment before I turned the engine on.

90 minutes later I woke up.

bugslet

I once drove from Bower Madden ( just short of John O Groats) to Farnborough in one hit; somewhere around Nottingham in the middle of the night, the brain switched off until around Luton. Absolutely no idea what had happened between the two points, complete auto-pilot.

michaels

Generali wrote: »

Yup. I did the MacKay to Rockhampton run one night after spending the day diving on the Barrier Reef at Airlie Beach. No street lights, no radio reception for most of the journey, Mrs Generali went to sleep and wasn't insured for the hire car anyway.

All along the road was a set of poles marking the edges of the road with white reflectors on my left and red ones on my right. That was basically all I could see. I ended up pulling over for a cigarette (I smoked back then) and got back in the car and paused for a moment before I turned the engine on.

90 minutes later I woke up.

How far had you driven in the 90 minutes?

Generali

michaels wrote: »

How far had you driven in the 90 minutes?

LOL. Thankfully none!

I was definitely dropping off before I stopped. The giveaways are your speed varying quite dramatically and a lorry/kangaroo/tree/town appearing from nowhere and ending up in your lap.

PasturesNew

Mid 30s, when my parents relocated 350 miles away, I'd work all week, then set off at about 5.30pm on a Friday to drive down to theirs. I'd not stop on the journey as I just wanted to get there and any stop is a delay ... and, on your own, it's a bit boring having a coffee/cake stop at a service station ... not to mention fear of car being robbed full of my stuff while snacking.

I'd then drive back on a Sunday evening.

Now I wouldn't do it ..... I'd be too kn4ckered.