It was a hard drive home this evening. Heavy rains the night before had filled up the lower lying roads with lots of water and it was making the two motorways I normally drive back on very treacherous. Actually, it looks like what has happened is a truck got out of shape further up the line. So I decided on a more country route and avoid the sub 10MPH plod home.

All going well until I got to a road that dips under a railway line and the heavy rains had swelled the normal puddle into something like a murky ford.

So there we all were, taking it in turns from opposite ends of the ford to drive our cars through the shallowest part, setting up a 'bow wave' at the front of the car and NEVER, NEVER slowing down.


But as I get halfway across, for reasons I can't imagine, the young lady in the small hatchback car looses patience and drives in the opposite direction.

The only problem is that at the front of my car is a rather significant air damn, which acts like a snow plough when driving through water. It's almost like a mini Tsunami and well above the door level. Which is exactly what happened; right through her open window and presumably right onto her... and I couldn't stop or I'd risk flooding the car.

What's even more worse, this wasn't clean water... no, it was a particularly horrible smelling soup of vegetation and... well, I'd not like to think about it.

Whoever you are... if you ever do read this. Sorry about that. But then again, perhaps patience is something you could work on.