Minuet #1 in G
Patron with Honors
I had a call from John the other nite. So he is alive and well still.
Sonja, I worked with you Dad in the GO in Adelaide for a few years. Talking about Canberra, me John Sowerby and Mark and another drove my car over to Canberra for some GO rally to do with the ASIO bill or something I think in 79 or 80 around that time. Anyway we left on Monday drove all day and nite got to Canberra on Tuesday, did the demo , then drove home Tuesday afternoon, all night arriving back in Adelaide at about 10 am I think. So we could be in time to get our reports and stats in (the GO week finishing on Wednesday to give enough time for reports etc to be posted to Sydney)
Now the funny part of this story is that John and Mark were the co-drivers. I tried to drive as much as I could (it was my car!) but no sleep in two days made me a little dangerous at the wheel. So others had to share the driving. John has only one good eye, the other being a glass implant. So his 3D perception was not good. I did feel quite nervous while he was driving. This nervousness was justified when he managed to hit a kangaroo outside of Hay, wiping out the front corner of the car on the way home. Luckily the car could still be driven, minus a front headlight.
But I'm afraid Mark scared me more. He was used to riding his motorcycle a not driving a car. I dont think he had a car licence actually (dont tell anyone). Anyhow Mark seemed to have trouble keeping the car on the straight and narrow and would slowly swerve over to the middle of the road and then slowly swerve back. So we were either going to get cleaned up by a road train or end up in the ditch at the side. We did survive the drive somehow, with the car a little worse for wear. The panel beater managed to make it look happy again. It was a fun trip tho
I hope that he has improved his driving since then. Perhaps you might ask him about the long drive to Canberra with some Adelaide people. Would like to get his version of the story.
Cheers
Min
Sonja, I worked with you Dad in the GO in Adelaide for a few years. Talking about Canberra, me John Sowerby and Mark and another drove my car over to Canberra for some GO rally to do with the ASIO bill or something I think in 79 or 80 around that time. Anyway we left on Monday drove all day and nite got to Canberra on Tuesday, did the demo , then drove home Tuesday afternoon, all night arriving back in Adelaide at about 10 am I think. So we could be in time to get our reports and stats in (the GO week finishing on Wednesday to give enough time for reports etc to be posted to Sydney)
Now the funny part of this story is that John and Mark were the co-drivers. I tried to drive as much as I could (it was my car!) but no sleep in two days made me a little dangerous at the wheel. So others had to share the driving. John has only one good eye, the other being a glass implant. So his 3D perception was not good. I did feel quite nervous while he was driving. This nervousness was justified when he managed to hit a kangaroo outside of Hay, wiping out the front corner of the car on the way home. Luckily the car could still be driven, minus a front headlight.
But I'm afraid Mark scared me more. He was used to riding his motorcycle a not driving a car. I dont think he had a car licence actually (dont tell anyone). Anyhow Mark seemed to have trouble keeping the car on the straight and narrow and would slowly swerve over to the middle of the road and then slowly swerve back. So we were either going to get cleaned up by a road train or end up in the ditch at the side. We did survive the drive somehow, with the car a little worse for wear. The panel beater managed to make it look happy again. It was a fun trip tho
I hope that he has improved his driving since then. Perhaps you might ask him about the long drive to Canberra with some Adelaide people. Would like to get his version of the story.
Cheers
Min