Women Drivers!

Morgase

I've just had the most embarrassing morning in work. I work on a roads building project so I drive around in a jeep most of the day.

Today I got stuck in the mud for the first time ever and had not a notion of how to get out. Had to enlist the help of four men to get me out! (I was about a foot in the mud and had the jeep bellied in it!) My face is still like a tomato I'm that embarrassed.

Sympathies please! All I'm getting here in work is slagging!

nialo

As you should be! how did you manage to get a jeep stuck!!!

/me ducks and runs for cover!!

Puddleduck

Ah it could be worse. I looked like an eejit in the petrol station coz I couldnt get the cap off, had to get a lorry driver to help me..but its a new car so its ok :pac:

You should have put something under the jeep for the wheels to grip, or get somebody to pull you out

Wibbs

Meh it could happen to a bishop. Among the best drivers I know(and i know some damn good drivers) two of them would be women.

How do you drive into any surface without having some kind of realisation that you may get stuck in it?

Surely you could tell from looking at it that it may not have been the most solid surface?




No offence or anything... just curious.

T3h-mastr-cheef

*facepalm*

Morgase

Well I was trying to turn around in an accommodation road (basically gravel lane with mucky verges on either side), but I misjudged it and managed to get my front wheels in the verge, which was saturated.

Got it out with the help of another jeep and a towrope and lots of revving (so I've a burned clutch now, bringing it to garage soon).

It was really really facepalm. Tbh there are stories about everyone on the site doing stupid things, I guess this is my one!

Morgase

I suppose I should add that some jeeps are better than others for their four wheel drive ability, my one is pretty poor. It's not my driving ability I swear :pac:

biko

www.carstuckgirls.com

Don't ask... NSFW-ish btw

jen_23

Puddleduck wrote: »

Ah it could be worse. I looked like an eejit in the petrol station coz I couldnt get the cap off, had to get a lorry driver to help me..but its a new car so its ok :pac:

You should have put something under the jeep for the wheels to grip, or get somebody to pull you out

Lol I did that too when I forst started driving :P
Just think you'll have a funny story everyone who knows you will remember for years and it will be brought up at every family event, work do, xmas, .......... lol

WindSock

I don't understand why people have jeeps here if they can't use them properly.

Sorry op, not a personal dig at you, just a general observation on city driving.

btw, some of the worst drivers I see are middle aged men in the later stages.

WindSock

T3h-mastr-cheef wrote: »

*facepalm*

You signed up on a new account just to tell us that? I see you live by the make a good impression from the start philosophy...

Damomayo

nothing worse than getting stuck ..... as a tractor driving person i have been stuck more times than i care to remember; its all part of the fun. Urs doesn't sound bad; just amunition for slagging

did ur 4 wheel drive not manage to get u out on its own

citytillidie

Wibbs wrote: »

Meh it could happen to a bishop. Among the best drivers I know(and i know some damn good drivers) two of them would be women.

Hopefully they were not the girl who nearly crashed into me on monday night:mad:

Coming upto a roundabout, there is 3 lanes i take the inside lane to go straght ahead onto the left lane of the Foyle Bride, there is a woman on the right hand lane which takes you out towards Limavady, anyways as we aproach the turn off to the bridge i am expecting her to continue on around but nope she insteads pulls left to go on the bridge. Now there is two lanes on the bridge so i was expecting her to take the right hand lane since i am already in the left hand lane but nope she pulls right in front of me making me slam on the brakes and thanking god there was no one behind me.

Sorry rant over

Morgase

WindSock wrote: »

I don't understand why people have jeeps here if they can't use them properly.

Sorry op, not a personal dig at you, just a general observation on city driving.

No offence taken! Tbh I'm not entirely comfortable with driving the jeep so I generally only drive it on the site. I'm far more comfortable driving my tiny car on the roads.

Damomayo wrote: »

nothing worse than getting stuck ..... as a tractor driving person i have been stuck more times than i care to remember; its all part of the fun. Urs doesn't sound bad; just amunition for slagging

did ur 4 wheel drive not manage to get u out on its own

Ah yeah it'll all just be good-natured slagging for the next week or so until someone else does something joke-worthy.

Nah the 4 wheel drive in my jeep seems to be next to useless. I was one of the last to start work here so I think it may have been "last in, worst jeep"!

Ginny

meh, I got stuck in my garden once, I hadn't used the car all weekend and it had pissed down, garden was a swamp. Poor car was on the grass, put some newspaper under the car and Hey Presto was out in a sec.
Keep a newspaper or 2 in your bott just in case.

Dudess

WindSock wrote: »

btw, some of the worst drivers I see are middle aged men in the later stages.

+1
My dad and others of his age group didn't even have lessons. And they literally got their licences in the post once they filled out a form.
The "women driver" generalisations make me lol...

citytillidie

WindSock wrote: »

btw, some of the worst drivers I see are middle aged men in the later stages.

Very true i think you can also add in them boy and girl racers who think there are invincible.

Biro

Morgase wrote: »

Well I was trying to turn around in an accommodation road (basically gravel lane with mucky verges on either side), but I misjudged it and managed to get my front wheels in the verge, which was saturated.

Got it out with the help of another jeep and a towrope and lots of revving (so I've a burned clutch now, bringing it to garage soon).

It was really really facepalm. Tbh there are stories about everyone on the site doing stupid things, I guess this is my one!

See? There's the real problem. Don't worry about bogging the 4x4, people make mistakes. The bigger mistake is the panic reaction to the first mistake! rev the crap out of it, get it outta there at all costs - that's the real mistake! If you screw up the best thing to do is calm down and analyse the current situation and the best way around it (which is seldom the way that the guys around you suggest - they don't care about your machine!).
Also, now's a good time to find out how to engage the diff-lock.

Biro

Morgase wrote: »

Nah the 4 wheel drive in my jeep seems to be next to useless. I was one of the last to start work here so I think it may have been "last in, worst jeep"!

What is it as a matter of interest? (sorry, I frequent the Motors forum. I take interest in these kind of stories!)

Elle Victorine

Jaysus it could happen to anyone good driver or no. Some of thte best drivers I know can't change a bloody tyre!

TBH the slaggers sound ghey.
This kind of thing happens all the time in proper manly persuits.
Did they not dig under and shore up the wheel??

Dudess

Elle Victorine wrote: »

Jaysus it could happen to anyone good driver or no. Some of thte best drivers I know can't change a bloody tyre!

Exactly. It's not as if it's part of the driving test and it's a very rare occurrence. Frankly just thinking about the males in my life... well they wouldn't have a clue what to do if it happened to them either.

Stheno

Dudess wrote: »

Exactly. It's not as if it's part of the driving test and it's a very rare occurrence. Frankly just thinking about the males in my life... well they wouldn't have a clue what to do if it happened to them either.

I got a fuppin puncture during my first driving test and had to change it lol.

OT: OP they'll have something/someone else to slag in a few days

Morgase

Biro wrote: »

What is it as a matter of interest? (sorry, I frequent the Motors forum. I take interest in these kind of stories!)

Isuzu D-Max (for the non-motors people, it's basically a pick-up style jeep).

Everyone, I feel a lot better now after all your stories and commisserations. Thank you

citytillidie

Elle Victorine wrote: »

Jaysus it could happen to anyone good driver or no. Some of thte best drivers I know can't change a bloody tyre!

I know them F1 drivers are lazy b's they dont even get out of the car to put in the petrol never mind changing the tire.:p

Biro

Morgase wrote: »

Isuzu D-Max (for the non-motors people, it's basically a pick-up style jeep).

Everyone, I feel a lot better now after all your stories and commisserations. Thank you

That should be OK, but then it depends on the tyres that are on it. Blame the tyres anyway!
Did you shift it into 4WD L?

Zzippy

Dudess wrote: »

The "women driver" generalisations make me lol...

They might make you lol, but you know they're true....

OP, wouldn't worry about it, I was glad several times to have a winch on the jeep I used to drive. If you're in a job where you actually need a 4x4, and not one of those D4 "need a BMW X5 for the school run" types, there's no shame in getting stuck once in a while. At least you need the jeep...

Morgase

Biro wrote: »

That should be OK, but then it depends on the tyres that are on it. Blame the tyres anyway!
Did you shift it into 4WD L?

Heh I've just had this discussion with one of the lads, I always used 4H cause I didn't know the difference between 4H and 4L. I should've at least tried using the 4L

Zzippy wrote: »

OP, wouldn't worry about it, I was glad several times to have a winch on the jeep I used to drive. If you're in a job where you actually need a 4x4, and not one of those D4 "need a BMW X5 for the school run" types, there's no shame in getting stuck once in a while. At least you need the jeep...

Thank you I think I'm more ashamed of not knowing how to get unstuck rather than the actual getting stuck!

Pherekydes

Dudess wrote: »

+1
My dad and others of his age group didn't even have lessons. And they literally got their licences in the post once they filled out a form.
The "women driver" generalisations make me lol...

I never took any lessons. *snigger*

Hey, but I passed my test first time. In Dublin, too, not one of those country ones where you just have to drive around a few country lanes without killing any livestock to prove you can drive competently.

Everyone does something silly once in a while. When I was buying my first Volvo, I didn't realise the gearstick had a collar to lift and pop it into reverse. I spent several minutes trying brute force and ignorance to get it into reverse. :rolleyes: When I finally found the collar by accident I was so relieved I promptly reversed into a fence.

Dudess

Morgase wrote: »

I think I'm more ashamed of not knowing how to get unstuck rather than the actual getting stuck!

Why? And why is it bothering you at all?

Edit: that looks really aggressive - sorry! :

But what I mean is, why would you feel ashamed or embarrassed or bothered? Jeez, you've no need to be. Don't be caving into the "women driver" bullsh1t at all!

Biro

Morgase wrote: »

Heh I've just had this discussion with one of the lads, I always used 4H cause I didn't know the difference between 4H and 4L. I should've at least tried using the 4L

4L is for when the going gets tough! In some 4x4's 4L also locks the differentials, so don't use this on the road. Sometimes there's a different button or lever for the diff's, but there's usually a light to indicate that the diffs are locked.

Morgase

Dudess wrote: »

Why? And why is it bothering you at all?

Edit: that looks really aggressive - sorry! :

But what I mean is, why would you feel ashamed or embarrassed or bothered? Jeez, you've no need to be. Don't be caving into the "women driver" bullsh1t at all!

I know this sounds a bit mad, but sometimes it's so difficult in this building environment to get taken seriously as a woman, and then when I had to get a bunch of men to help me out of the mud, I felt a bit silly! I know there is no rational train of thought there but the brain is an odd thing sometimes. Funny thing is that everyone else seems to have forgotten it already!

Biro wrote: »

4L is for when the going gets tough! In some 4x4's 4L also locks the differentials, so don't use this on the road. Sometimes there's a different button or lever for the diff's, but there's usually a light to indicate that the diffs are locked.

Ah right, I see. I wish I had found this out ages ago instead of been given a set of keys and told to go and drive the monster truck (well it looked like one to me when I first saw it!).

ellebelle

Don't worry about it... let them know its not a big deal for you ... but the tomato red face might have betrayed you already.

I once with out with a guy who, i kid you not, took out a manual to learn how to change the tyre on his car. I was horrified and it was about then that i knew our relationship was not going to work.

I also had to jump and guy once... or i should really re-phrase, i had to jump his car, much to the amusement of one or two on lookers.

Us women drivers..... WE RULE... (well some of the time).

LightningBolt

Was parking in college before and as usual the carpark would be full so people would park everywhere and anywhere. I found a spot that meant I'd to drive the car up on a 6inch path. What I didn't know was that there only air on the otherside of the path meaning my axel was stuck to the path ie the wheel turned but the axel would scrape along the path. To make matters worse it was in front of one the smoking areas meaning lots of people could take the piss out of me:rolleyes: Frantically tried to move the thing with no luck, ended up texting one of the lads in class to get 6 of the biggest feckers going to lift the car off the path to a loud cheer from the smoking area:D

SW81

Ah could happen to anyone OP

Dudess

Morgase wrote: »

I know this sounds a bit mad, but sometimes it's so difficult in this building environment to get taken seriously as a woman, and then when I had to get a bunch of men to help me out of the mud, I felt a bit silly! I know there is no rational train of thought there but the brain is an odd thing sometimes.

Yeah, true. I've heard construction sites can be sh1tty enough work environments for women.
Still though, you should have been shown how to deal with this problem if it arose. You can't exactly have been expected to just know, seeing as it's not something that comes up very often.

Madame Razz

Don't worry OP, I backed into a wall with my boss sitting in the seat next to me.... demolished the wall AND my back bumper.....MORTIFYING!!!

First and only thing I've ever reversed into. In my defence it was a very low wall which was in quite a random place in a filling station that was in the process of being extended.


Still cringe at the thought!!

Zaph

Was at lunch with a mate from work today who told me about the conversation he had on the phone with his wife the other day.

Wife: The car's just stopped on me.
Mate: Just stopped? But it was only serviced yesterday.
Wife: I know, but I was driving along and it just ground to a halt and I can't start it.
Mate: Just like that? No warning?
Wife: Well the fuel light came on just before it stopped.
Mate: Just before? Where are you now?
Wife: Malahide
Mate: And how long ago was it that the light came on.
Wife: Monaghan.
Mate: I think I know what the problem is...