A Driving Incident

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Yes. I remember there was a story, horrifying story that was told a colleague of mine when I to teach years ago, who, this lived in a semi-detached house and door there was a man who'd bought a new car. And he telling me that one morning he looking through the window and this allowed his wife to drive the , very unwisely, and she was having first go in it and he it out of the garage so it was standing on the driveway he'd closed the garage doors and came out of the house to this car out and go shopping the first time. So she came very gingerly and opened the door sat in the car and began back very, very gently, taking great , you see, that she didn't do to this, to this new car. as she backed, there was an crunching sound and she slapped on brakes and looked around frantically and that she hadn't opened the gates let on to the main road, see. And she'd just backed into very gently and sort of touched bumper and bent the gates slightly this put her into a bit a flap.

So before she do anything about this she had pull forward in order to, to the gates. So she took the out of reverse, put it into gear and pulled forward very gently. unfortunately she misjudged the distance to garage doors so that as she forward, she ran into the garage , thump, and smashed in the front of the car and bent the doors. So she stopped in time, see, and by this stage she getting into a bit of a so she got out of the , shaking like a leaf, went behind car and opened the gates that on to the main road and she was determined not to be by this state of affairs, which pretty terrifying, got into the car started the engine, looked through the window very, very carefully and backed with the utmost deliberation into the road, and managed it absolutely perfectly. the only trouble was that she'd the driving side door open and forgotten to close it so that she backed out through the gates the main road she tore off door. Apparently at which stage she collapsed and went into a state hysteria.