June 15, 2002

• OK - here is a story, it isn't really mine to share, but I'm gonna anyways!
  
  *wicked grin*
  
  My father is a tow truck driver, and works on call every other weekend. So he takes the tow truck home over night and parks it in the drive way - for this story it is important you know two things about our drive way, one is that it is on a pretty steep slope down to the house, and two is that there is a fence/gate across it, actually three things, third is that if you go down the drive way, you go down alongside our kitchen window.
  
  We park our cars behind the gate, and the tow truck gets parked between the gate and the street - where my old car is parked in this photo, there is a fence/gate just in front of where TK is standing:
  
  
  
  (I think you know where this story is going huh?)
  
  Last week after work my father came home and parked the truck in the drive way and went in the kitchen door, where he took his overalls off (the long sleave overalls with a zipper from neck to crotch).
  
  As he was struggling to get his arm out of the sleave (he's not a young man any more *chuckle*) he heard a crash and turned around just in time to see the tow truck rolling past the kitchen window - having crashed its way through the fence ...
  
  ... down the drive way it went, my father at this stage was still struggling to get out of his overalls and, I imagine, having a very colourful conversation with himself.
  
  Now, my mothers new car was parked part way down the drive - and I mean new, When I moved to Australia 5 months ago, I sold my red car (in the photo above - oh how I miss my car!)to my parents, who then traded it in on a new car for Mum.
  
  So by this stage my father has twisted his shoulder fighting with his overalls in a panic. The tow truck has wrecked the fence and crashed into the boot of the new car (and still the carnage continues). The new car is shunted forward into the front my fathers fully restored and road worthy 1923 Model T ford.
  
  As TK would say "opps a daze"
  
  Yes, indeed. And when I hear this story I'm cracking up, mean you say? Well I wonder what Dad would have said to me if I'd parked my car in the drive way without putting the handbrake on properly?
  
  *smirk*
  
  

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