The car

[Pete Grey]

(7 December 2019, 17:13)Mortblanc Wrote: ..............I did install a roof rack and high intensity driving lights on the rack........The roof rack serves the primary function of being a visual symbol that answers the eternal question "where did I park that #%$& car ?"

A good few years ago, more years that i care to remember, on a holiday in Devon i was driving around with an orange inflatable dinghy on the roof rack. I could see the car from half a mile away, no problem.

Unfortunately there was a thunderstorm while we were and the thing filled up with rain water, bent the roof rack and nearly dented the roof.

I could not move the dingy, much too heavy, but i was able to take out the air filler and let the air out and the water cascaded out as it lost it’s rigidity, then i reinflated it and turned it upside down, never made that mistake again.

As for the zombie hordes we also try to avoid shopping Friday nights, and Saturday is just as bad. We don’t have trouble finding our car it’s the scruffy old one in the corner, the hordes from eastern europe usually drive merc’s or bmw’s, and park in the disabled driver spaces.