Swiss
19-04-07, 01:42 PM
Having been at Sid Squids house on Tuesday evening and seeing two grey squirrels shagging in his garden I feel there must be something in the air. This morning a Vespa tried humping my poor defenseless Yamaha RXS 100!! Had the mating been successful I figured that we'd have a cross breed; a Yamspa perhaps! Anyway I digress from what is supposed to be a mini rant :smt013 about cagers, obviously!
The reason for the impromptu metallic mating session was mainly to an over courteous cage driver and their eagerness to let a fellow cage driver out of a side street. "Nowt wrong with that is there"? I hear you all ask. Generally no there isn't, and I have on many an occasion done this myself. I have however, never pulled what borders on an emergency stop to do this. I managed to stop the Yamaha and this is when the Vespa saw it's chance to "get its freak on" and reared ended my poor Yam. There was, for one horrible second, a moment when I thought this may become a 3 way involving a bus!!!! Fortunately the bus took a turn of shyness and stopped a yard or 2 short of engaging the Yam and the Vespa, the offspring of which could only have been a 22 seater twist n' go motorcycle with standing room and disabled access!
Despite the crunching of metal and plastic, plus the shuddering of a 10 ton bus abruptly coming to a halt the cage driver pulled off to continue on its merry way totally oblivious the the carnage only a yard from its rear bumper.
THE FRICKIN NUMPTY
Fortunately the casualty count is small:
Bent Vespa levers
Broken Number plate.
Couple of pairs of underpants.
Some scratched paint work.
I know that it's sunny and folk seem to be in a good mood, good will to all men and all that but FFS let's not try to kill each with our over exuberant gestures of curiousness.
Rant over.
The reason for the impromptu metallic mating session was mainly to an over courteous cage driver and their eagerness to let a fellow cage driver out of a side street. "Nowt wrong with that is there"? I hear you all ask. Generally no there isn't, and I have on many an occasion done this myself. I have however, never pulled what borders on an emergency stop to do this. I managed to stop the Yamaha and this is when the Vespa saw it's chance to "get its freak on" and reared ended my poor Yam. There was, for one horrible second, a moment when I thought this may become a 3 way involving a bus!!!! Fortunately the bus took a turn of shyness and stopped a yard or 2 short of engaging the Yam and the Vespa, the offspring of which could only have been a 22 seater twist n' go motorcycle with standing room and disabled access!
Despite the crunching of metal and plastic, plus the shuddering of a 10 ton bus abruptly coming to a halt the cage driver pulled off to continue on its merry way totally oblivious the the carnage only a yard from its rear bumper.
THE FRICKIN NUMPTY
Fortunately the casualty count is small:
Bent Vespa levers
Broken Number plate.
Couple of pairs of underpants.
Some scratched paint work.
I know that it's sunny and folk seem to be in a good mood, good will to all men and all that but FFS let's not try to kill each with our over exuberant gestures of curiousness.
Rant over.