D'oh! A new first...

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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