Road Trip from Munich to Paris...
...in a fully laden Mercedes Sprinter.
We were critically low on fuel and extremely grateful when we finally pulled into the service station. Still, the fuel stop didn't come quite soon enough, as after we'd had a pre fill up potty break, the van wouldn't start again. "No probs" says I, "I'll push the van to the pumps"
My boss wasn't convinced I could do it, but agreed we should try it anyway. It was only about 50 yards and I'm a fairly hefty person.
I hop out,get my head down and get my legs pumping. We're moving at quite a rate when all of a sudden I hear the distinctive thud of metal on metal and I look up just in time for the rebounding van to smash me right in the face.

My fucking genius boss hadn't put the keys in and as such the servo assisted brakes hadn't worked and I pushed the van straight into a parked bmw.
(Fausted Sticking his faust where the sun don't shine, Wed 27 Jan 2010, 12:15, 4 replies)

Feck
was that a rather costly potty break?
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Wed 27 Jan 2010, 15:12, closed)

Just
the bumper, thankfully both cars were rentals.

We were heading up there for the paris air show. I spent the entire tradeshow explaining the huge bruise on my forehead.
I told everyone that our managing director (5'4" of bad temper, he looks and sounds like the actor wallace shawn = vizzini from the princess bride ) had reacted angrily to shoddy reporting. That got almost as big as laugh as the real reason.
(Fausted Sticking his faust where the sun don't shine, Wed 27 Jan 2010, 16:39, closed)

Wouldn't the servo assisted breaks
not work anyway since the engine wouldn't be running?

Or have I got my cars all wrong?
(Shippy likes linebreaks and doesn't care what you think, Wed 27 Jan 2010, 21:20, closed)

Key
was in the ignition, but not turned. This happened 1998, at the time the driver (my boss) told me he tried braking but they didn't work. still don't know why he didn't pull the handbrake. neither did he.
would have ruined a perfectly funny moment, if he had anyway.
(Fausted Sticking his faust where the sun don't shine, Thu 28 Jan 2010, 1:07, closed)