If they would have let me drive, I would have been home dry. But no, 3
cycles of the light to get away from work. I could have been home in less
than that amount of time. It wasn't raining for the first 2 cycles. Then
it started to rain hard just before I cleared the intersection. Before I
cleared the next light ( 2 cycles ) it was really coming down and on the
ramp, it was coming down like Datsun cogs ( cats and dogs? ) and I couldn't
wipe the water off my face fast enough to see what was around me. That,
coupled with the fact that I don't have wipers on the inside of the
windscreen, made me just about blind. I don't think that the people with
roofs could see either, and it was getting precariously close to mixing
fenders. When I saw the sea of red taillights, that was it for me.
Crossing that next street took about 15 minutes. It gave me some time to
dry things up ( including the inner windscreen . . . Did I mention that I
hadn't put the blower back in? ) and the sounds of the car with the top up
made me reminisce about my 'B that used to travel in all kinds of non-winter
weather.
That was my first spridget trip with the top up, with the exception of the
short trip to deliver Miss Marple to the inspection garage this spring.
Can I lurk? :)
Robert D.
-----Original Message-----
Robert!
You put the top UP? Just because the
Ottawa area experienced level 4+ TR's?
Storms with cloud tops around 40,000 feet or higher and we, "stout" men
such as
myself who inhabit the Spridget site from
time to time, are supposed to empathize
with you and understand such "woose"
behaviour? You didn't fight your way thru? You stopped! And put the
top up!!
FORSHAME!! YOU'RE BANNED FROM
THE SITE FOR 30 DAYS!!
"NO SOUP FOR YOU"!! }:-{}
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