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"Is this believable?"

I just called work, told them I wasn't in today.

My reason:

My car wouldn't start from work yesterday, so I called the AA out - they helped me to get it home, but I need a new alternator.

So this morning I was planning on coming in using my wife's Landrover. Now this is a classic, like 40 years old. As I'm drivig, I find the brakes are intermittently failing. The only way I can stop is to use the handbrake, or pump the brake pedal. So I turn around, go home, and find it's leaking brake fluid.

So I'm stuck at home, and can't get to work.

Really though, I think it sounds completely unfeasible, but it's the absolute truth. I wonder if my manager will believe it? Actually, I doubt he cares, he's not spoken to me in weeks!

Marzman wrote:
>
> Well, if you hit a person @ 20 mph they will be in a thousand peices
> (hence they should be banned).
>
> Also, all cars should have roll cages

People should be banned!? Also getting hit by a car going 20 is'nt likely to smash you to bits.........

Chavez XVI wrote:
> Our Landrover gives you a sence of false security,(it feels as if your
> driving a tank!) if you crashed into somthing it would probably smash
> into a thousand peices of rust, with just the bull-bar left!

Well, if you hit a person @ 20 mph they will be in a thousand peices (hence they should be banned).

Also, all cars should have roll cages

Our Landrover gives you a sence of false security,(it feels as if your driving a tank!) if you crashed into somthing it would probably smash into a thousand peices of rust, with just the bull-bar left! I was giving the farmer nextdoor a hand, he's got a resonably new one, and its really fast! It feels really good speeding up the fields, it must have a really powerfull engine in!

I'll believe it if you pay me... :P

My mothers car broke down once and the Taxi we then took to get home also broke down.

Your Honour wrote:
> 86% of statistics are made up on the spot.
>
> Meka, whereabours in East Anglia do you live, out of interest?

The village of Witchford, near Ely, which is around 15 miles North(ish) of Cambridge.

Meka Dragon wrote:
> I'm on the opposite side of the country to Wales. East Anglia. Still a
> few sheep around here though.

Only out in the Fens, like in small villages near Ely for instance ;-)

Bonus wrote:
> Timmargh wrote:
> Nearly 2/3 of all Land Rovers ever built are still running today,
> compared to something like 1/20 of all Ford Escorts.
>
> 95% of chavs crash their Escorts, only 5% of farmers can afford to
> crash their Land Rovers.

Even if a farmer does crash a Land Rover (and my uncles has taken a hell of a beating), they can still run.

Timmargh wrote:
> Nearly 2/3 of all Land Rovers ever built are still running today,
> compared to something like 1/20 of all Ford Escorts.

95% of chavs crash their Escorts, only 5% of farmers can afford to crash their Land Rovers.

86% of statistics are made up on the spot.

Meka, whereabours in East Anglia do you live, out of interest?