Tuesday, Jul 13, 2004 at 21:40
Hey Carolyn - great memories, must be about the same age. One of our friends had a Morris 1000 and went
parking at famous National Park (which was risky with all of us hanging around) - anyway, it seems a little unclear(even now - hahaha) how it happened but in the throes of passion (obviously from the back
seat) someones foot hit the gear stick (those really long ones) and knocked it out of gear and it slowly slipped over the bank and onto the big (as in large) rocks at the water's edge. The passion must have been quite something because they didn't realise it had happened until one stepped out of the car to go for a walk. About the same time this happened it turned out some of the littler kids were spying on the big kids and came running up the
hill to tell the rest of us.
Down the
hill we rushed to see, back up the
hill with the plan - we had to 'borrow' the SWB Landrover belonging to Father of boy in back
seat. SWB being untouchable to the kids. Very difficult as Father was in house with visitors (parents of some of us). We quietly pushed it out of the garage backwards, and down the long
hill where we could start it without Father hearing. About twenty of us to the rescue which was quite difficult really, bouncing Morris backwards over those big rocks but little damage occurred - the hardest part was getting the SWB back into the garage without making any noise. The driver of the Morris turned into a pilot - one can only hope his foot doesn't hit something in the front of one of those Jumbos in an odd moment of passion!!! Gosh, that was a good memory. Thanks for reminding me, Carolyn.
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