I wonder if this topic will end up in an article in one of the magazines
I am crying laughing reading these stories, I thought it was only me that did these things lol !! Another one I do is to blast my horn when travelling past houses or housing estates at 2-3am, if there are no houses then the various animals would get it full blast, cows are always up for a stampede lol !!! Those of you that don’t believe these stories, trust me they are true !! Now I can tell my shrink I am sane, and show him these stories
Phil
Traffic Cone tiddlywinks used to be another favourite of mine. You need to clip the bases with the very edge of your trailer tyres. They either go skidding across the carriageway or fly up in the air.
A1 widening at Peterboro in the 90’s was best for that. Lit up, nowt about. Used to send them skidding or flying across to the hard shoulder.
Everything posted in this thread is very familiar to me…
Last week on the way down to Tilbury my colleague (driving in front of me) phoned me up and taught me how to send cones flying on the M25…
FarnboroughBoy11:
I also set the seat to really high and really springy and see how many times I can bounce up and down on it in a minute.
Thought I was the only one!
As to wanting to yank the parking brake on, I know I never would, but it’s like if someone stuck a big red button on my dash with a sign saying “DO NOT PUSH” I would really want to push it.
Derren Brown did an interesting show called Trick or Treat based on positive and negative thinking where he sat a young lady down in a room with a kitten in a cage and a big red button which, if pushed, would electrocute the kitten. All she had to do was sit in front of the kitten whilst a timer counted down and not push the button. He managed to make her zap the kitty with a few seconds left on the timer by telling her not to push the button, but her mind was ignoring the “do not” part and listening to the “push the button” part. Look it up on 4OD if you have a spare half hour. Series 2 Episode 2.
Same with the parking brake. If you start thinking “must not touch the parking brake” your head concentrates on “touch the parking brake.” Better to think “must shout at cows” when you go in to trance mode
Conor:
Traffic Cone tiddlywinks used to be another favourite of mine. You need to clip the bases with the very edge of your trailer tyres. They either go skidding across the carriageway or fly up in the air.A1 widening at Peterboro in the 90’s was best for that. Lit up, nowt about. Used to send them skidding or flying across to the hard shoulder.
So it was YOU who sprawled a few miles of cones up the M4 past Hungerford the other night. And there was me thinking it was just the wind.