honkytonkman187 said:
I had a close call on the M62 a few months back. There should be a service-station between Hartshead Moor and Birch IMO. I got "the rumble" and knew that all was not good not long after passing Hartshead Moor. Actually pulled onto the hard shoulder to squat at the side of the car, but the passing lorries beeping their encouragement as they passed me didn't help. Got back into the car, now thinking that I could make it to Birch. The next ten miles were covered in a time that would make Lewis Hamilton proud and I dumped the car as close to the front doors as possible, in a disabled bay and waddled in with my buttocks as tightly clenched as possible and "prepping" myself, whilst my girlfriend was left in the car doubled-up with laughter.
why is it that your arse knows you're getting closer to a toilet and cannot wait ten seconds longer ?
Now that is a brilliant post mate.
I laughed at the lorry drivers, I laughed at your girlfriend and I nodded in agreement at the fact that your brain intuitively knows you are close.
However, the brain can be fooled if there is an unforeseen barrier between you and the toliet during that final leg. It once happened to me.
I had flown home from a holiday in Jamaica. On the last night I had curry goat as well as mountains of gassy lager.
By the time I reached my flat I was on Red Alert. I let myself in the main door or the block and this was the point my brain knew relief was near and Mr Plop started to heave the bay doors open.
When I got to my flat door I simply couldn't open it. One of the Yale locks which I never ever use and hadn't the key for was firmly locked. I had seconds to make my calculation. I could have attempted to go back outside and gone into the shed where the bins were kept but it was broad daylight and I reckoned I had less than 10 seconds of "hold on" time remaining. Not enough to get out there.
i remembered the Sweeney, mustered all my strengh up and BANG booted the door off it's hinges. My momentum took my through the door and i turned right and straight to the bog, whipping my Kecks down at the same time. I swear, my arse cheeks hadn't even touched the seat when the sludge started to hit the pan.
I believe that my desperate status gave me a kind of superhuman status because there is no way i could have booted that door in in normal cicumstances.
After the event, shrouded in relief, I found a note from the police. They had been called there because I had left my flat door wide open in the rush to get in the taxi when I set off two weeks ago. They had locked the yale lock.
That's a true story....