living in a small country town
means you have to commute to the nearest city for entertainment. So the nearest cinemas are a good half-hour drive at an average 110km/hr to get there.

One night my mates and I were driving home late. The driver and front passenger thought it would be a cool dare to try to drive just with parking lights (not the headlights) so that all we could see was the white lines of the roadside a few metres in front of us.

Although there was no traffic at all. I was starting to get concerned about this (after all kangaroos don't have headlights so they are difficult to see and avoid) and I knew we were approaching a turn ahead.

What made things worse is that the electrics in the old Corona played up a little and blacked out for a moment long enough for us to lose track of the road. The driver did his best to correct the car's direction but got us into a fishtailing motion sliding all over the road. Everyone's asses were sliding about on the vinyl seat of the old Corona we were driving.

We slid off the road and came to a thud just narrowly clipping a tree. after the dust settled we checked our vital parts and a quick assesment of the car - as far as we could see everything appeared fine.

We all agreed that leaving the headlights on was a good idea for the rest of the trip. Upon later inspection under a street light once we got to town showed half solid chrome bumper on the rear had been half twisted off from clipping the tree. Any closer and we might not have lived!

Hey Kids! - NEVER try this at home! It is really stupid!
(mudslinger lives in a house surrounded by pussy....... cats!, Fri 23 Feb 2007, 13:23, Reply)