theduisbergkid Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 A lousy commute this morning due to the rain on the M1 got me thinking about how much worse it could have been, so here's my definition of the ultimate theoretical journey from hell : Driving around the M25 in a Vauxhall Meriva diesel, with Michael Barrymore as passenger, in the rain, with the radio playing endless country and western .... How about you ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattR32 Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 Getting lost in Croydon driving a Perodua Kelisa sat next to a mortgage and pensions advisor with the radio playing pseudo RnB cack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theduisbergkid Posted October 24, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 [ QUOTE ] Getting lost in Croydon driving a Perodua Kelisa sat next to a mortgage and pensions advisor with the radio playing pseudo RnB cack. [/ QUOTE ] It was a toss-up between RnB and Country and Western for me. I get red mist just thinking about 'destinys child' arghhhh !!!! stoppit sh!te music in my head now ..!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garcon magnifique Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 My real journey from hell was from Cheadle to Heathrow on a Friday afternoon. Set off at 3pm, arrived at 1am. Nice. Didn't get to see the accident either, which is always frustrating - it doesn't seem so bad when you get to see the cause of your hours of misery... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skifly Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 the trip i did from leeds to truro - accident on the big bridge down near bath way (lorry went over onto a car and crushed it totally). So traffic was apalling - went to back roads and bird couldnt handle the twisties emptying her guts all over the all essential map and i managed to go a full 90 minutes without touching the steering wheel and rarely looking up from FHM (while driving!!!). Plus the car (E300Turbodiesel) still had snow tyres on the rear so was really tail happy. 14 hours of constant driving later (well if you call sitting in huge queues driving), one stinky car, very irate bird, a very irate me and the birds olds decide to take me for a tour in the car of the local area... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torino101 Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 My real life worst journey admittedly was of my own making, but was up in Endinburgh on a Saturday night seeing frinds, the night got a bit out of control and so had the hangover from hell come Sunday morning. So bad that I couldn't drive back down to London Sunday Morning. So I left it and left it throughout the day come 11:30 at night I knew I had to make a move and reluctently drove back to Central London and straight to work for the monday morning. I have never had a longer monday in my life!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R32North Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 Commuting in England............ your traffic sucks!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saab Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 Hmm nightmare journey: Driving a Rover Maestro Diesel on the South Circular in Friday evening rush hour with Anne Widdecombe as a passenger listening to jazz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theduisbergkid Posted October 24, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 Whats wrong with Jazz ? Surely for maximum discomfort it should be an Austin, not a Rover, but I'll give you 2 points for that one ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 The Tyne Tunnel. Friday's. Any week. An alternative would be the Bowes Incline (Angel of the North) Northbound on a Friday from 2pm onwards. Utter hell and all because cars merging from the Metro Centre and Newcastle can't do so in an orderly manner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theduisbergkid Posted October 24, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 [ QUOTE ] The Tyne Tunnel. Friday's. Any week. An alternative would be the Bowes Incline (Angel of the North) Northbound on a Friday from 2pm onwards. Utter hell and all because cars merging from the Metro Centre and Newcastle can't do so in an orderly manner. [/ QUOTE ] So what would the worst car, and worst radio choice be in that situation ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saab Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 [ QUOTE ] Whats wrong with Jazz ? Surely for maximum discomfort it should be an Austin, not a Rover, but I'll give you 2 points for that one ! [/ QUOTE ] For me having to listen to jazz is akin to being locked in a sound booth and made to listen to the amplified noise of someone repeatedly running their finger nails down a blackboard - I really do loathe it that much. And for the maximum embarassment the Maestro would have to be a very late model Rover, probably a K-Reg and a Clubman model, because by that stage it had been so irredemably left behind by motoring progress (not that it was ever at the forefront let's be honest) that it had become a total and utter laughing stock. The only benefit (for the purpose of this topic of course) of an older Austin model would be the electronic voice reminding me that my seatbelt was undone. However having given it some thought I might be persuaded to swap the Maestro for an FSO Polonez. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 The worst car, oddly enough, would be my old 04 M3 Coupe. Strange perhaps? Nah, not really, because the constant stop-start nature of the journey would kill you left knee with the constant clutching, and the bite of first gear (and the change to second gear) in a Manual M3 is something I was always critical of - and a major reason for moving to SMGII. Radio station - ah well that'd be Radio 2 with Ken whathisname because his voice makes me want to rip the stereo out and has the same effect on me as someone scraping fingernails down a chalkboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhyds Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 Any long drive down welsh back lanes with either a caravan or a horsebox in front, in a vauxhall nova that won't tick-over with RnB on the stereo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mulkbear Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 [ QUOTE ] The Tyne Tunnel. Friday's. Any week. [/ QUOTE ] true so true its funny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pincher Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 Mine would have been the trip back from Edinburgh after picking up the R. Edinburgh to Newcastle was straightforward. After that I got stuck on the M1 for an hour, until the M1/A1 junction. Chose the M1 and got as far as Luton(ish) and got stuck about 30 seconds behind a fatal crash that closed the Motorway for about 3 1/2 hours. People were playing football on the Northbound section while the M-way engineers cut a 30 foot section out of the central reservation so we could carry on our journey. Left Edinburgh at about 11.30am Saturday - got home about 1.00am Sunday to TP & MrMe for keeping me (almost) sane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dq1 Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 Any M1/M6 journey, minus the toll road of course!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purple_nurple Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 Calais to Manchester in a 1.6 Nissan Almera with a 2 year old and a 6 year old in the back. Hit London at 4.00 on a Friday! Crawled all the way to Birmingham, got on the toll road for a brief respite. Then back on the M6 and crawled up to Manchester. Evil, Evil journey! Paris to Calais was lovely though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lenny007 Posted October 25, 2005 Report Share Posted October 25, 2005 The first 8 miles of the A66 stuck behind a procession of Caravanners, 4 Wheel drives and lorries. In the rain, at night. Driving a Saxo VTR with useless wipers. Listening to BBC Local radio. And then to make matters worse - you lose the radio signal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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