Stupid, Stupider and STUPIDER STILL!

[pauldavid]

It is so nice to come across the perfect person. You should run training courses to pass on to others how you manage this pinnacle of achievement.

I do, I'll drop you a line with the next available course dates.

 

[Little yellow Brompton]

There's no fueling some people.

A fuel and his money are soon parted.

 

[Moon bunny]

... I was stuck with using the phone built into the car ( 20 minutes before the AA answered) and having to sit in it to shelter from the elements....

First world problems.

 

[Over The Hill]

Not necessarily connected to the above incident but top tip- you can move most cars out of a dangerous place on the starter motor (if not automatic or with other complications) if you just stick it in first and turn and hold the key and the car will chug along.
Good if you broke down on a level crossing or something.

 

[oldfatfool]

I am guessing that you pressing your brake light confused them into originally thinking you where moving traffic before reaching any hazard, hence their displeasure to find themselves stopped behind a stranded vehicle. IMO you would have been better with just your hazard lights flashing and leaving the brake pedal alone.

 

[Pale Rider]

Opening the boot/hatchback is not a bad idea - depending on weather and where the lights are bolted onto the car.

 

[Night Train]

Could you not have pushed/rolled your car down hill to the verge, either forwards or backwards?
Hazard lights alone would/should be enough to let other drivers know your vehicle is incapacitated and stationary.

I also find that if the breakdown is close to a point where traffic will be slow or stopping then the red triangle can be placed closer to the car. At the approach to a roundabout drivers forget a lot in the last 100 yards as they are busily checking for their exit and lane.

However, no matter what you do there will be drivers who fail to notice anything until they are stopped right behind you, if not having driven into you.

 

[Dan B]

There's no fueling some people.

Sometimes you gotta be fuel to be kind

 

[mark st1]

There's no fuel like an old fuel.

 

[Little yellow Brompton]

Not necessarily connected to the above incident but top tip- you can move most cars out of a dangerous place on the starter motor (if not automatic or with other complications) if you just stick it in first and turn and hold the key and the car will chug along.
Good if you broke down on a level crossing or something.

It's an Auto.

 

[Little yellow Brompton]

I am guessing that you pressing your brake light confused them into originally thinking you where moving traffic before reaching any hazard, hence their displeasure to find themselves stopped behind a stranded vehicle. IMO you would have been better with just your hazard lights flashing and leaving the brake pedal alone.

Maybe, the brake flashing was after the first tranche had not noticed the hazrads and strobe, but it didn't seem to make much difference either way.

 

[Little yellow Brompton]

Opening the boot/hatchback is not a bad idea - depending on weather and where the lights are bolted onto the car.

It was hammering down, and the strobe would then have been masked.

 

[Little yellow Brompton]

Could you not have pushed/rolled your car down hill to the verge, either forwards or backwards?
Hazard lights alone would/should be enough to let other drivers know your vehicle is incapacitated and stationary.

I also find that if the breakdown is close to a point where traffic will be slow or stopping then the red triangle can be placed closer to the car. At the approach to a roundabout drivers forget a lot in the last 100 yards as they are busily checking for their exit and lane.

However, no matter what you do there will be drivers who fail to notice anything until they are stopped right behind you, if not having driven into you.

I was thinking that, maybe some people were confused by the use of the hazard lights, as there were obviously no shops nearby for me to have "popped in for 2 seconds", that being the main use for hazard lights!

 

[Little yellow Brompton]

There's no fuel like an old fuel.

If you look at the map you will notice that I was actually "The fuel on the hill"

 

[Night Train]

I learnt, from having old diesels, never to run out of fuel as bleeding the pump at the road side was a right PITA.

However, in my first year of driving I was given a telling off by a Police officer for 'running out of fuel' up a busy hill in London rush hour.
I hadn't actually run out but the tank in my mk1 Escort drained to the back of the tank, away from the pickup. I just didn't quite have enough fuel in the tank, but it wasn't empty!