If your drive is sloped you might want to park at an angle
so the car won't roll, or chock it against the curb,
remember the drivers' manual...how to park on a hill? Turn
your wheels so the car would roll into the curb.



"Jim Burns" wrote in
message ...
|A few years ago I came home from work and noticed that my
wife's car wasn't
| in the driveway as normal. I simply assumed that she
wasn't home yet, but
| after entering the house and finding her there, I
naturally asked where the
| car was. "In the driveway" I was told but then corrected
her that no it
| really wasn't. Hmm.... where's the car?! We instantly
thought that someone
| had stole it as we always leave the keys in it, but living
in the country a
| 1/4 mile off the road, never worry about it.
|
| So we both tear out the door and look at the spot that the
car normally sits
| (as if it should magically appear)... nope no car. We
look around the yard
| (as if the kids had taken it to play with in the
sandbox)... no car. So I
| start walking down the driveway and finally spot it....
buried deep in the
| underbrush of the little oak woods that our driveway
dissects on it's way up
| the hill to our garage. The car had backed "itself" down
the center of the
| driveway until it came to the ONLY spot without a 10" or
larger oak tree,
| then turned 90 degrees and continued into the chest high
weeds, brush, and
| undergrowth. Nearly completely hidden from view.
Considering the steepness
| of our driveway, we were extremely lucky. If it had hit
just a single tree
| on it's driverless adventure, it would have most likely
suffered severe
| damage.
|
| It escaped with only a few scratches and I escaped with
only having to spend
| a couple hours re-adjusting the parking brake.
|
| Don't feel bad Jay... someday I'll tell you about the time
that I left my
| car running as I ran into the store in our one store/horse
town.... it was
| gone when I came out...
|
| Jim
|
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