Apprenticeship Pre-qualification

[bert]

SWMBO asked me to clean the rear window of her car - so she could see where she was going!!!

[Tim+]

Well, if you insist in parking the wrong way round in your driveway, she might have a point! ;-)

Tim

[Roger Mills]

Could be useful if she spins it in the ice and snow!

[ss]

Female logic! my wife has had 3 accidents in the drive of my house, she reversed in to cars parked behind her. I can only assume as she was in the drive and the kids mates had parked when visiting that she she assumed the drive was empty and they had parked in the street.... But how could you miss not seeing a car when you walk out to yours and there is another car parked 3 feet right behind it..... Yes 3 times she has done this. :-(

[Tim Lamb]

Mine has done it twice (in 47 years).

Once when she was cross about some trivial dispute and once when I had left my truck in an unusual place.

[damduck-egg]

My mother did the classic of entering the garage/workshop via the little door set in one of the two bigger doors, and then reversing out without opening the large ones. Father was not amused .

G.Harman

[Tim+]

Um, isn't that a damned good reason to learn to back into your driveway? Lucky it was only cars she hit and not children or other pedestrians. There's rarely a good reason *not* to back into your drive and lots of very good reasons why you should.

Tim

[Brian Gaff]

Well, that is a new one. Or does she mean remove objects placed thereon? The inference is that these are your objects and that she needs to go places backwards quite a lot. Brian

[Brian Gaff]

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Reversing sensors. Cheap as chips these days.

[ARW]

Have her arms dropped off?

Tell her to DIY:-)

[ARW]

I can remember my Mum blaming me for one of her crashes. I had left her car in first gear when I parked it up - she later started up the car and went through the back of the garage wall as she never checked it was in gear.

I also remember my Dad once asking her "Have you have scraped the car down the gate post I can see white paint all down the side of your car" My Mum denied hitting the gate post. My Dads next question was "so what have you hit then?"

Her reply was brilliant "Your car and it's your fault for parking it where you did"

[Mike Barnes]

There's another reason to reverse *in*, if possible.

[bert]

In article , ARW writes

I was washing it at the time - new toy snow foam dispenser.

[dennis]

I watched a neighbour bring her wheelie bin out and put it behind the car, she then locked the house door got in the car and reversed into the bin.