Haha, well tbh then, i had not even applied for the job and no interview or anything. My mum had just got a job with the same company as a driver and came home on the friday saying right you need a car by monday you have a job!
After her mithering me for ages saying a job will never fall into my lap and that I actually have to go look for one!
More irony. Seriously though, without a trace of irony, well done for working hard and taking the responsibility of a child to heart. Too many people think that their life can go on without change when a child arrives. The offspring must come first. Maybe only thinking of their own selves is one of the reason we have a lot of anti-social behaviour.
I managed to avoid irony, but think that might have been a bit patronising. Sorry about that.
Thank you so much. Saved me time from explaining & getting stick!! Haha
You're welcome
i have the miss fortune of driving a LOW seicento with quite a number of modifications and a raspy exhaust. i get pulled all the time.
now im in police training atm and dont mind as ive never been doing anything wrong. i drive the sei exactly the same as i drive my 106. im 21 been driving 4 years and have 0 points yet ive never been pulled in my 106 (standard black bumpers high suspension) as opposed to my sei.
to be fair i understand why its done as usually modifications are not declared and young drivers do have limited concideration for other drivers.
best thing i ever did was pass my motorbike test 2 years ago. opens your awarenss right up when your sat ON something not IN a metal box.
take it easy people and keep your eyes wide
Once you're out in the wide world of law enforcement it won't be long before you have to attend an RTC, even if you're only on the perimeter. By the time you end up as the first to attend a fatal and have to try and perform CPR on someone who's been thrown from a car, you'll find it's not long before you start pulling young drivers for driving in a dodgy manner. By the way, as Ffoxt says, keep yourself alert and widen your field of observation, it'll stand you in good stead when you have to do your standard driving course. Whenever I find driving the car a bit hum-drum, I get the old Fudge out and get back all my enthusiasm for motoring.
Spot on fella, couldnt agree more...
Do you have a 'bike as well, if so, next time I'm going for a run down the A49 I'll give you a shout.
I must be a bad driver then....managed to get a rear puncture, noticed when enough air had gone that I was getting vibration, although it did not run entirely flat the tyre was ruined. If I hadn't had the stereo on I may have noticed it earlier, however main thing that stopped me noticing it was that I'd been stuck in slow traffic so from the drivers seat there was very little sign of it going down as I wasn't doing anything other than rolling forward at 15mph.
The point I was trying to make, is that we can only do, or think about, two to three different things at any one time. "Thing" 1 is biological, in other words the things your body does when you're asleep, such as making your internal organs work. So in addition to that we can only handle about another two things at a time. More than that you will be classed as something close to a genius. Therefore, if you're driving a car, and listening to music at the same time, then the argument goes that the louder the music, the more it interferes with your other thought processes.
You'd never hear the air escaping though from a slow puncture from inside the car. Whether or not the stereo is on and stopping and starting you wouldn't feel it as easily
Correct, if fact even if you were stopped at the lights you wouldn't hear it. But without the high level of noise generated by loud music you'd be more likely to be aware of vibrations from underinflated tyres a nail or screw stuck in your tyre or bearings wearing out and not long away from failing.
You won't hear the air escaping. That isn't the point. When a tyre is running at too low a pressure it makes more road noise, until it eventually runs flat altogether and it makes a "flapping" noise. I think that's what they mean. Then of course it gets very noisy if you are still driving and you end up on the rim!!
Er, I should have read your post more carefully, so yes quite right.
i figured out that its my tyres which are cheap. They dont grip in wet weather at all, so thats why i wheelspan
As when I was a sprog, I knew the price of everything but the value of nothing. Spending a bit more on tyres and a little less on socialising (or whatever you spend your money on) will do you some good. Even so you can still look around for a bargain. I got 4 175X14 Avon tyres last year for the Panda MJ on a BOGOF offer for £50. I bought a 205X15 VR Vredestein for Mrs. Beard's 156 for £65 which, although more than all four for the MJ, it was still about £15 less than most places were advertising it for.
