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Sat 13 Nov 2004 12:33
I need a Ford Escort ... - NowWheels
No, not me.

Setting off on an Irish Sea ferry-crossing this week, the near-empty passenger lounge was treated to a very loud-voiced woman talking into her mobile about her woes. (This wasn't eavesdropping: it would have been hard to find a place where she couldn't be heard)

Her car had broken down on the ferry, and couldn't be driven off on arrival. Apparently, it couldn't even be pushed off because it had locked the driver out, and nobody seemed to know how to tow it. This woman was not very pleased.

So she was returning on the ferry, with her car stuck where she had parked it on the car-deck, and was frantically trying to raise someone to rescue the thing on her return to Holyhead. She repeated in great frustration that it was a nearly-new Mercedes (I didn't catch which model), and she seemed to be under the impression that this was not quite the quality she had paid for. It seemed that she had also had some free-and-frank exchanges with the ferry company, who hadn't been thrilled to have their car deck blocked.

The final instalment as we headed out of mobile phone range was her calling her son to plead with him to get her a Ford Escort immediately, because at least it would work.

I was very tempted to go and talk to her to ask her the full story to post here, but decided instead that I would preseve my ears by escaping to the far end of the ship. Still not a great ad for a Merc ...
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Sat 13 Nov 2004 12:38
I need a Ford Escort ... - Robin Reliant
The loudest complainers are often the victims of their own stupidity. The "car had locked her out" does make one wonder...
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Sat 13 Nov 2004 12:44
I need a Ford Escort ... - NowWheels
The "car had locked her out" does make one wonder...


well, she didn't say she'd locked the keys inside, and if there was any way of using them to get in, I'm sure that someone else would have managed it for her.

It sounded to me like the car's electronics throwing some sort of a wobbly
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Sat 13 Nov 2004 16:10
I need a Ford Escort ... - Altea Ego
I know its not funny to laugh at other peoples misfortunes, its not nice. BU the though of a car coming back on the ferry cos they couldnt get it off......


ROFL ROFL LOL

oo that hurts
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Sat 13 Nov 2004 16:47
I need a Ford Escort ... - NowWheels
ROFL ROFL LOL


I found it rather funny too :)

Not just a stuck car, but a driver whose humourless indignation at the humiliation could have been the model for a successful sitcom character. I have no doubt that in any other situation she would have viewed the prospect of driving a Ford Escort as being several degrees less enticing than being fried in chip fat.
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Sat 13 Nov 2004 17:05
I need a Ford Escort ... - Pugugly {P}



All you needed for the full sitcom hit would have been a gangly male thrashing said Merc, within an inch of its life, with a branch.
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