Towels

Fezek · Post by **Fezek** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 6:04 am

According to the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the towel is the most important asset to any traveller. Imagine my surprise when I discovered this was true. Three weeks ago I was driving back from my brothers house in Kent when, on that deathtrap the M25, I heard a buzzing noise. I pulled off at the nearest exit and then I heard a lovely scraping noise. Lo and behold the bracket that was keeping one end of my exhaust pipe attached to the chassis had twisted and broken. "Super", I happily smiled. I don't swear in public. So I looked around in my car for something to temporarily re-attach the pipe and heard Alec Guinnes softly whisper in my ear " Use the towel, Fez-lad, use the towel." I shook my head but found the towel. Using all the skills I had learnt at cubs( except the ones to do with locating adult magazines in nearby woods) I re-attached the pipe with my towel. Amazing I cried.
Later, whilst on the M6 just outside of Birmingham, the fates had decided I was too clever so they decide to snap my exhaust pipe in two. But , there was a fightback. My towel wasn't quite ready to throw in the boxer just yet. The noise was blinding. My car sound like that scene from Blazing Saddles where all the cowboys decide to buy out the entire stock of Baked Beans from the local TESCO's. Me, embarrassed(sp?)!!
Of course there was a great clanking noise as you would imagine from a twenty pound lump of inconveniently shaped metal smacking about from underneath ones car. But, the back part of the pipe WASN'T 3 miles behind me helping to cause another motorway accident. It was still attached to the car. I pulled over and got out of the car. I looked at the back of the car and there was the sorry twisted lump of the "back box"( as car mechanics like to call them) staring at me apologetically, tears in its eyes ( yeah, yeah I'm waffling now). I then looked under the car and to my amazement there, winking at me was my towel. It had done it's job. Where a german crafted metal bracket had failed it, this simple piece of warp and wefted cotton had remain true to it's word and kept the flopping piece of back box attached to the car. Seriously, it had probably prevented a motorway accident. I raise a glass to my towel and Douglas Adams, RIP.

Naturally the journey from Birmingham to my house in Cheshire( sorry Ysh, I'm a Cheshire lad, Ive been Stephen Byers about my Lancastrian roots) was to put it simply like listening to one long eggy boff.

Anybody else have great towel stories?

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 6:14 am

Originally posted by Fezek
Anybody else have great towel stories?

Nothing even close to that, great story!

Fezek · Post by **Fezek** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 6:20 am

Re: Re: Towels

Originally posted by Mr Sleep

Nothing even close to that, great story!

Took me ages to write it.

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 6:35 am

Re: Re: Re: Towels

Originally posted by Fezek

Took me ages to write it.

Well worth it though

Nippy · Post by **Nippy** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 7:07 am

Well that was, umm interesting?

Seriously though, lucky story. Any other piece of linen and you might have had a nasty accident...

Gwalchmai · Post by **Gwalchmai** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 7:51 am

@Fezek: A well-told story! Doug Adams would have been proud!

LOL

Fezek · Post by **Fezek** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 8:02 am

Originally posted by Gwalchmai
@Fezek: A well-told story! Doug Adams would have been proud! LOL

Fezek....*blushes*...doh..

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 10:59 am

Well, I got one. One day, after taking a shower, I turned off the water and stepped out. To my horror, I was dripping wet! Thankfully, I had a trusty towel, and it managed to soak up the water, and make me dry! Amazing!

frogus · Post by **frogus** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 11:02 am

****! are you serious!? you wouldn't believe that exact same thing happened to me the other day! well, actually more like a year ago....no. alright. It's never happened to me. *bursts into tears*

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 11:12 am

Maybe I'm just blessed then...

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 3:37 pm

ROFLMAO!!!

ten out of ten for inspiration - though I have heard the broken fanbelt insert tied stocking trick - and experienced it!

though don't even think about it with a Rover Sterling - those are not fan belts - those are circuit boards behind the headlamp that involve a total dismantling and a £150 bill...

@Fezek - two words...erm abbreviations - RAC or AA

but avoid the other pair of two words...Green Flag and sod it!

I am stunned!!

why claim to be a Lancastrian?? were you seriously trying to rile me? if you thought it may be something I could eventually associate fondly too and break down some sadly perceived barrier - well I always give the benefit of the doubt!! but claiming to be Lancastrian to a Yorkshire lass?

you scare me....

A Cheshire lad is always welcome in the Sheffield bars, my friend, without ID too!

I was wondering how you got to sample the local ale with a Coronation Street accent and stay unbruised!

T'lainya · Post by **T'lainya** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 3:52 pm

Hmm a round of Pan-galactic gargleblasters all around

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 3:53 pm

So you have been to Sheffield too?

T'lainya · Post by **T'lainya** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 3:56 pm

LOL international/intergalactic bar hopping is a specialty of mine

Sailor Saturn · Post by **Sailor Saturn** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 3:56 pm

I had to show that story to my dad cause he's the one to introduce me to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He thought that was a cool story. He doesnt' have any towel stories, but he does have a microphone stand story where he had to cut a piece off the pipe-like part of a microphone stand to replace a part under the hood.

@Aegis, great towel story!

My towel's not very good at it's job, though. I'm always still wet afterwards.

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 3:57 pm

Originally posted by Sailor Saturn
I had to show that story to my dad cause he's the one to introduce me to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He thought that was a cool story. He doesnt' have any towel stories, but he does have a microphone stand story where he had to cut a piece off the pipe-like part of a microphone stand to replace a part under the hood.

@Aegis, great towel story! My towel's not very good at it's job, though. I'm always still wet afterwards.

erm...try using a dry towel to begin with?

Shadow Sandrock · Post by **Shadow Sandrock** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 4:00 pm

Aegis, you should thank me. I wasthe superhero who delivered the towel that was left on the floor from out of my kitty box to your bathroom so that way you could be saved. I'm a superhero now. Wahey.

Sailor Saturn · Post by **Sailor Saturn** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 4:01 pm

Originally posted by Yshania
erm...try using a dry towel to begin with?

I finally got around to trying that, too; but it still didn't work.

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 4:17 pm

Originally posted by Sailor Saturn

I finally got around to trying that, too; but it still didn't work.

Ok...then surely if you bathe in dry ice you won't get wet?

cold...but not wet!

T'lainya · Post by **T'lainya** » Fri Mar 01, 2002 4:20 pm

Or maybe just never get out of the water? Then you won't have to worry about it