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 Kazandmyrtle
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| posted on January 10th, 2012 at 06:01 PM |
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Sydney M4 Breakdown - RANT!
okay need to rant and no one home to listen to me:
I've just spent an hour on the M4 hard shoulder and not one person stopped......is it just me or is that rude?
I was driving home in my Golf, around rush hour and the guard under the engine dropped down and started scrapping on the floor. I pulled over as i
couldn't drive with it like this. Got out and climbed under, i tried to lift it back up but due to a shoulder injury and spazzy hand with no feeling
just couldn't get the angle on it. Plus its lowered (told you all lowered was a bad idea :-p).
Anyway after a bit of time on the ground under the engine I finally gave up. I went and stood behind the barrier. I was there for over an hour and
not one person in crawling rush hour traffic pulled over to ask if they could help or if anything was wrong.
Now, i understand not everyone has mechanical skills but surely if you see a woman on the side of the road (or a man to think of it) you'd pull over
and see if you could help?
In the last 2 years i've stopped 4 times to help others broken down, even with my spaz hand. In the end a friend turned up in his truck and fixed
but i thinking i'm loosing faith in strangers.
Rant over - Thanks
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 vw54
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| posted on January 10th, 2012 at 06:10 PM |
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Sorry join the NRMA
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AA003
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| posted on January 10th, 2012 at 06:16 PM |
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Gratuitous Sexist Coment
Wear a shorter skirt.
Always works for me.
But I have nice legs.
I read it on samba, so it must be correct.
Sometimes Volkswagen dealers sell spare parts. Amazing isn't it!
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| posted on January 10th, 2012 at 06:53 PM |
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i must say that i have only ever had good people stop and see if they can help in 1 case a bloke stoped and asked if i needed a phone i said no and
bugger me he came back with a coffee there are good people out there
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| posted on January 10th, 2012 at 08:36 PM |
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Broke down in the ghia coming back from RTTS i waved at all my vw mates drive past who did t care to stop hey Pat. Luftmeister came to my rescue in
his falcon station wagon.
This is my Volkswagen, there are many like it, but this one is mine. Without me my Volkswagen is useless, without my Volkswagen, I am useless.
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mike malli
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| posted on January 15th, 2012 at 07:28 AM |
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Hi guys,
I guess it depends when and were you are. Last week after midnight I pulled over into our local servo, closed by then of course, to adjust something
underneath the bonnet. Within seconds are car came by, stopped, and the bloke asked if I had a problem and needed help. I am living in (semi) rural
Queensland. Best thing about it was he looked like someone you would not like to meet in a dark back street and his old car run like shit. Still, I
was mighty impressed. Help is out there, trust me.
Mike
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| posted on January 15th, 2012 at 09:41 AM |
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your in sydney no wonder no one stopped, everyones in too much of a hurry to care
i have never stood on the side of the road for more than 10 mins here in melbourne and every time some one hass stopped to help they had or used to
have a dub
i spose it depends where you are and the time of the day too
i stopped last week on my way back from geelong to help a guy out as he had a flat and so was his spare so i went and had his spare filled, took an
hour of my time but hey peeps have done it for me and as you guys know what goes around comes around
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| posted on January 16th, 2012 at 02:22 PM |
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If you ever broken down in the outback you will always stop.
Well that's one thing that realy surprised me, on a recent 15000km trip to and back from WA not one person stoped to ask if I needed help when I was
stoped on the side of the road, as it happened I didn't need help as they were eiither stops to add fuel to the tank from jeries that I was carrying
or simply changing a fuel filter because it had become cloged from dirty fuel, but noone else knew that and still noone stoped.
I dream of a day when a chicken can cross a road without being asked for it's motive!
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