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  Forogar  17-Apr-16 4:55
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When I was (a lot) younger I used to drive fairly fast everywhere as I was always in a hurry to get to the next exciting part of my life.

One day, after having decided that driving fast on narrow English residential streets with cars parked on both sides of the road might not be a good idea, I was going, for the first time I remember, slightly under the 30 mph limit. I saw a small ball bounce out into the street just ahead of me. I hit the brakes and skidded the car sideways and actually stopped with my door just an inch away from the small boy who ran out between the parked cars in single-minded pursuit of the ball. He stopped, yelled in surprise, fell over and started to cry. His frantic mother came running out after him and I thought, "I am in trouble here!" However, she yelled at the idiot kid, smacked him (the good old days of direct parental feedback), picked him up, mouthed a tearful "Thank you!" to me and ran back inside with him.

It took me a couple of minutes to straighten up my car (how I didn't hit the cars parked either side of me I don't know) and about twenty minutes to stop shaking.

There are definite reasons for some rules and they should definitely be followed - all the time!






PS. It made me feel good about following the rules for once in my life until I found out later that that little boy grew up to be a lawyer! Wink | ;) Well, you can't win 'em all!
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