Mori: can you tell me what is the point of someone buying a shiny black convertible VW Beetle, and then driving it at 40mph on a 60mph road?

Gaaargh!! Another motorway pile up. This time a lorry carrying bales of paper or something managed to have an accident all over the M4 and made a 15 mile tailback. Even better I managed to experience it first hand for 3 enthralling hours of watching the traffic.

( 3 lane blacktop )

Took an hour and 45 minutes to get home today, and usually it takes about an hour and ten. Some idiot managed to have a smash up on the motorway again, there was the car, a red one, with it's front all buckled in, sitting on a truck waiting to be towed away, hopefully to be crushed into a single useless block of steel and presented to the brain ( Read more... )