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Because it means I have to spend my few free hours in an evening hunting out the best prices for my car insurance. And everything's got so much more expensive over the last 12 months or so. I have 6 years No Claims and still the best quotes I can get is around the £400 mark. 2 years ago, with just 4 years No Claims and a car that was worth a lot more I was paying £250 a year for my insurance.

I'd love to get rid of the car but having to take public transport to work works out at about £1000 a year more expensive than driving (that includes the extra childcare costs) so it's just not worth it and it would take me nearly 2 hours to do the 13 miles to work. 2 hours on a bus with a 2 year old - no thanks.
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[livejournal.com profile] steviesun, you may want to skip over this post.

So, I was driving to work yesterday morning, minding my own business. I was on the motorway and overtaking a lorry at about 60mph, a couple of hundred yards in front of me was a pickup truck with a tarpaulin over the back. It was flapping in the wind and suddently flew off straight at me. Because I was on the inside lane and next to me was a lot of lorry (or the central reservation).

I stomped on the breaks to slow down (luckily there was no one in front of me), flashing the pickup (as was the lorry). I hit the tarpaulin and it tangled under the car. (It seems that if you break hard in my car the hazard warning lights come on automatically. This is highly useful). Sadly the Mini coming up very quickly behind me ignored them. The tarpaulin untagled from the underneath of my car and went straight over the bonnet and part of the windscreen of the Mini.

I pulled over to check my car over (luckily there's no damage to the underneath of my car at all). And the Mini driver pulled in behind me having a rant because his aerial was all bent out of shape, but he was okay too.

The pickup never even stopped or slowed down. What a twonk.

Tbe Stig would have been so impressed by my calm (albeit highly sweary) dealing with the situation. I was a bit shakey when I got to work but I was generally okay.

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