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Friday, August 10, 2012
Mercedes-Benz competition
The Mercedes-Benz Driving Academy is looking for “Britain’s Best Young Driver” – and I might enter!
Apparently you’ve just got to be over the age of 16 – check – and 1.5 meters tall or higher – check.
You don’t even need to have passed your practical driving test – although that’s not an issue for me anyway.
My only problem is that it costs £45 or £80 to have a go, depending on which challenge you enter, and that’s quite a lot of money.
However, if you win you get to be a Mercedes-Benz Driving Academy VIP for a whole year!
What does that entail? Well, you’ll get to go to exclusive events, meet celebrities, test-drive brand new Mercedes vehicles, and apparently, states the website, ‘much more besides‘.
I’d really quite like to give it a go. Even if I don’t win, the experience of having driven around famous race and test circuits for a competition would definately be something to talk about.
I might get a few of my friends to enter as well, just so that I’ve got people I know to compete against...
Apparently you’ve just got to be over the age of 16 – check – and 1.5 meters tall or higher – check. You don’t even need to have passed your practical driving test – although that’s not an issue for me anyway.
My only problem is that it costs £45 or £80 to have a go, depending on which challenge you enter, and that’s quite a lot of money.
However, if you win you get to be a Mercedes-Benz Driving Academy VIP for a whole year!
What does that entail? Well, you’ll get to go to exclusive events, meet celebrities, test-drive brand new Mercedes vehicles, and apparently, states the website, ‘much more besides‘.
I’d really quite like to give it a go. Even if I don’t win, the experience of having driven around famous race and test circuits for a competition would definately be something to talk about.
I might get a few of my friends to enter as well, just so that I’ve got people I know to compete against...
Photo © torbakhopper via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: Britain, challenge, circuits, Mercedes-Benz Driving Academy, money, vehicle, VIP, young driver
Friday, July 27, 2012
The success of others
It’s wrong to be envious of the successes friends or family experience – but sometimes it’s difficult not to feel a little hard done-by.
My younger brother recently passed his practical driving test, which he is naturally very pleased about.
A good older sibling would just be happy for him…but my happiness is shrouded in jealousy.
Not only has he managed to pass at a much younger age than I did – but he managed it first time!
It took me four goes! Four! Do you know how much money that is? That’s a lot of money!
How come he only needs to pay for his test once? Oh, the unfairness of the world!
Now he’s talking about how the insurance won’t cost that much and how he’ll be buying a car soon. I don’t think so Mister! I’ve been driving a while now and I know that you won’t find cheap car insurance at your age!
Having said that – maybe he’s found a telematics policy… There weren’t any around when I first compared quotes for car insurance; I really wish there had been! Some people have all the luck!
My younger brother recently passed his practical driving test, which he is naturally very pleased about.
A good older sibling would just be happy for him…but my happiness is shrouded in jealousy.
Not only has he managed to pass at a much younger age than I did – but he managed it first time!
It took me four goes! Four! Do you know how much money that is? That’s a lot of money!
How come he only needs to pay for his test once? Oh, the unfairness of the world!
Now he’s talking about how the insurance won’t cost that much and how he’ll be buying a car soon. I don’t think so Mister! I’ve been driving a while now and I know that you won’t find cheap car insurance at your age!
Having said that – maybe he’s found a telematics policy… There weren’t any around when I first compared quotes for car insurance; I really wish there had been! Some people have all the luck!
Photo © Sean MacEntee via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: cheap car insurance, first time, money, pass, policy, practical driving test, quotes, success, telematics, young
Monday, February 27, 2012
Impatient Porsche driver’s costly mistake
If you were the proud owner of a Porsche you’d probably take really great care of it, since it’s such an expensive vehicle.
Moreover, hopefully, owning such a fancy car wouldn’t go straight to your head and make you forget you’re a normal human being just like everyone else and have no special right of way on the roads.
Well, one motorist in San Francisco did forget how to be a considerate driver, and it led to him suffering a great deal of embarrassment and most likely cost him a lot of money in vehicle repairs too.
Travelling along in his Porsche, the road user came across some waiting traffic, and, deciding that he didn’t have to wait with everyone else, overtook the queue.
He found himself stuck in wet cement.
Yes, by jumping the line, which was probably for temporary traffic lights or a diversion, he drove his expensive car into a road maintenance site.
Workers immediately got to work trying to free the car before the cement set, while the motorist sat in the car with a red face and hoping that the cement wouldn’t leak into the car’s interior.
Eventually the vehicle was freed, however it’s likely that the impatient driver will have to spend quite a lot of money replacing most of the car’s undercarriage.
He’ll be more careful in the future – hopefully.
Moreover, hopefully, owning such a fancy car wouldn’t go straight to your head and make you forget you’re a normal human being just like everyone else and have no special right of way on the roads.Well, one motorist in San Francisco did forget how to be a considerate driver, and it led to him suffering a great deal of embarrassment and most likely cost him a lot of money in vehicle repairs too.
Travelling along in his Porsche, the road user came across some waiting traffic, and, deciding that he didn’t have to wait with everyone else, overtook the queue.
He found himself stuck in wet cement.
Yes, by jumping the line, which was probably for temporary traffic lights or a diversion, he drove his expensive car into a road maintenance site.
Workers immediately got to work trying to free the car before the cement set, while the motorist sat in the car with a red face and hoping that the cement wouldn’t leak into the car’s interior.
Eventually the vehicle was freed, however it’s likely that the impatient driver will have to spend quite a lot of money replacing most of the car’s undercarriage.
He’ll be more careful in the future – hopefully.
Photo © Manik. Via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: car, considerate, driver, expensive, money, motorist, Porsche, repairs, right or way, road, San Francisco, traffic, undercarriage, vehicle, wet cement
Friday, February 17, 2012
Car roof calamity
If your boyfriend, partner or spouse managed to lose a large amount of money which could result in you losing your job, you’d be angry, right?
Well one poor husband in County Durham knew what the repercussions would be when he made a simple mistake outside of the post office in Willington.
His wife was working for a credit company, collecting money – a job the couple both needed her to keep – when the disaster occurred.
Helping his wife one morning by collecting £1,700 for the finance company, he put the bag which contained the money on top of his car.
You might be able to predict what happened next.
He promptly forgot all about it and when he next looked – it was gone.
In order to protect his wife from losing her job because of him, he fabricated a story which involved him being mugged in the street and described his attacker to the police.
Unfortunately it became clear quite quickly after a check of the CCTV that no attacker existed.
The man was given a community order with supervision and 175 hours unpaid work for wasting police time.
We just hope that his wife managed to keep her job and that she appreciated that he’d tried to salvage the situation – albeit in the wrong way.
Ah, car roofs, one of those mystical places where almost anything can be forgotten…
Well one poor husband in County Durham knew what the repercussions would be when he made a simple mistake outside of the post office in Willington.
His wife was working for a credit company, collecting money – a job the couple both needed her to keep – when the disaster occurred.
Helping his wife one morning by collecting £1,700 for the finance company, he put the bag which contained the money on top of his car.
You might be able to predict what happened next.
He promptly forgot all about it and when he next looked – it was gone.
In order to protect his wife from losing her job because of him, he fabricated a story which involved him being mugged in the street and described his attacker to the police.
Unfortunately it became clear quite quickly after a check of the CCTV that no attacker existed.
The man was given a community order with supervision and 175 hours unpaid work for wasting police time.
We just hope that his wife managed to keep her job and that she appreciated that he’d tried to salvage the situation – albeit in the wrong way.
Ah, car roofs, one of those mystical places where almost anything can be forgotten…
Photo © I See Modern Britain via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: car, car roof, CCTV, County Durham, credit company, husband, mistake, money, mugged, police, wife, Willington
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Paris Hilton’s taxi payment
You may already know what you want to be “when you’re older”, and you might be lucky enough to have already started your dream career.
However, if you haven’t you may want to consider becoming a taxi driver and following Paris Hilton about wherever she travels.
The famous heiress to the chain of Hilton hotels was recently seen in Paris giving her taxi driver a rather large amount of money for dropping her of at the shops.
It was $100 (about £60) to be precise, and she didn’t wait to get given the change back either...not that it would have been very easy to do since she didn’t bother converting her cash into Euros for that particular trip.
It seems as though, if you give Paris Hilton a lift enough times you may be able to afford to buy a fancier car, or perhaps even employ a chauffeur.
After all, if Paris Hilton’s Paris visit is anything to go by, driving yourself places, and paying people in the correct currency, is so last year.
However, if you haven’t you may want to consider becoming a taxi driver and following Paris Hilton about wherever she travels.
The famous heiress to the chain of Hilton hotels was recently seen in Paris giving her taxi driver a rather large amount of money for dropping her of at the shops.
It was $100 (about £60) to be precise, and she didn’t wait to get given the change back either...not that it would have been very easy to do since she didn’t bother converting her cash into Euros for that particular trip.
It seems as though, if you give Paris Hilton a lift enough times you may be able to afford to buy a fancier car, or perhaps even employ a chauffeur.
After all, if Paris Hilton’s Paris visit is anything to go by, driving yourself places, and paying people in the correct currency, is so last year.
Image © Oldmaison via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: car, career, cash, chauffeur, driver, money, Paris Hilton, taxi, travel