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Women drivers !

#1 Post by HowardQ » Thu May 15, 2008 8:43 pm

My daughter had the afternoon off work, she is off to Scarborough for a few days to stay with an old school friend, and wanted to miss the rush hour traffic by driving there this afternoon.
Asked her this morning if she was sure she knew the way, "Yeh it's dead easy dad, up the A1 from Sheffield, turn onto the A64 drive to Scarborough, I plotted it on Multimap".
Anyway suggested she took a road atlas just in case she had any problems. Anyway we got home rom work about half six, thinking Jo must be there by now.
Got a phone call......"Dad HELP, .............think I might have missed Scarborough, never saw the A64 and been driving for ages" .... were are you now? ...... "Heading towards Stockton on Tees from Darlington".
Yeh I think you've gone a bit too far north, but at least you never got to Scotland.

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Got her to look at the atlas and talked her through a way back down the A1 towards Thirsk, then off down the A170 towards Pickering and all the way to Scaborough. Told her it's a great road, you'll enjoy it, just watch out for bikes.
Got a phone call 5 mins ago ............... "Dad just got here, that road was absolutely bloody mint, enjoyed it so much I was worried I might have missed Scarborough, then saw the signs, best drive I've had for ages"........... She is running an old style Astra GSI Turbo.

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#2 Post by lazarus » Thu May 15, 2008 9:18 pm

Is she blond?
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#3 Post by D-Rider » Thu May 15, 2008 9:36 pm

lazarus wrote:Is she blind?
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#4 Post by HowardQ » Thu May 15, 2008 10:13 pm

Yes to the former.................. No to the latter.

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#5 Post by BikerGran » Thu May 15, 2008 10:45 pm

HowardQ wrote:
Women Drivers dont you just love 'em!



You are treading on VERY dangerous ground!!!!!!!


Possibly this particular female's problems are hereditary?
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#6 Post by HowardQ » Thu May 15, 2008 11:23 pm

BikerGran wrote:
HowardQ wrote:
Women Drivers dont you just love 'em!

You are treading on VERY dangerous ground!!!!!!!

Possibly this particular female's problems are hereditary?
Well she got the bit where she enjoys fast cars and bikes from me!
You've got to admit that Darlington ain't bad when you're heading from Sheffield to Scarborough with an unused atlas on the back seat of the car.
Managed to teach her mum to be much better at reading O.S. maps, we even managed to win a "night" road rally together, still got to work on Jo a bit more, but wouldn't change either of 'em.
The wife's biggest problem was calling out right and left junctions when coming down a map. I just had to always know if we were going up or down the map, so I knew that up the map left was left and down the map left was right and vice versa.

Women Drivers dont you just love 'em!

Yeh, both of 'em! :smt001
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#7 Post by ligloo » Fri May 16, 2008 7:50 am

HowardQ wrote: I just had to always know if we were going up or down the map, so I knew that up the map left was left and down the map left was right and vice versa.

Guilty as charged :smt003
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#8 Post by Samray » Fri May 16, 2008 8:02 am

You need to either turn the map upside down or go all the way in reverse. :smt082
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#9 Post by BikerGran » Fri May 16, 2008 1:27 pm

I have always admired those who can use a map upside down - I find the placenames much easier to read when it's right way up!
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#10 Post by Gio » Fri May 16, 2008 7:36 pm

Has gravity got anything to do with map reading?
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#11 Post by BikerGran » Fri May 16, 2008 9:13 pm

Might have Gio - I've just been to a rally in Cheshire and someone told me it was downhill all the way home - and it sure fely like it! Was fresh as a daidy when I got home!










(Of course that was nothing to do with having to stop 20 miles from home cos I was going to sleep, and having a nap on the grass!)
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#12 Post by ligloo » Fri May 16, 2008 9:34 pm

BikerGran wrote: and it sure fely like it! Was fresh as a daidy when I got home!
hope you were fresher than you are now :smt005
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