Reply to: Oh Rats, I'm on the wrong train

[BrilloPad]

I think I've told this story on here before, but what the hell: back in the days before satnavs, a friend of mine was in Hinckley, a small Leicestershire town near Nuneaton, when a van bearing the livery of some firm from down London way pulled up and the driver said "Here mate, do you know where the power station is?"

"Hinkley Point power station?" The van driver looks at the delivery note on his clipboard and nods. "Yes, I know where that is; it's in Somerset" says my mate.

Cue much swearing from the van driver who'd misread the index of his road atlas

Reminds me of the coach driver who went to Alton in Hampshire rather than Alton Towers.

[NickFitz]

I think I've told this story on here before, but what the hell: back in the days before satnavs, a friend of mine was in Hinckley, a small Leicestershire town near Nuneaton, when a van bearing the livery of some firm from down London way pulled up and the driver said "Here mate, do you know where the power station is?"

"Hinkley Point power station?" The van driver looks at the delivery note on his clipboard and nods. "Yes, I know where that is; it's in Somerset" says my mate.

Cue much swearing from the van driver who'd misread the index of his road atlas

[psychocandy]

Hardly a car crash!?

Got off at Pontypridd. Will find a pub until the next train goes.

A mere trifling inconvenience

"Ole Ole Ole Ole Ponty Ponty"

[psychocandy]

Especially if they'd been at PC's

Thats got some wind in it now.... ;-)

[DimPrawn]

Why would you want to go to Wales?

To experience the most uplifting, euphoric and delightful feeling imaginable.

Leaving Wales.

[barrydidit]

Especially if they'd been at PC's

[barrydidit]

Getting them home again might be tricky though

[barrydidit]

Why would you want to go to Wales?

Maybe your sheep had been rustled?

[BrilloPad]

Why would you want to go to Wales?

[mudskipper]

You poor poor person. We lived in Gillingham and Rainham for a bit but Chatham

We lived in Rainham mostly. Had a bedsit in Chatham after my parents moved to leafy Surrey. I went to school in Chatham though.

[eek]

Cos I lived there.

You poor poor person. We lived in Gillingham and Rainham for a bit but Chatham

[mudskipper]

What on earth did you want to go to Chatham for?

Cos I lived there.

[eek]

I once ended up in Chartham instead of Chatham.

What on earth did you want to go to Chatham for?

[vetran]

I once ended up in Chartham instead of Chatham.

thats the posh accent for you....

Oh pleaase take me to Cha(rrrr)tha(rrr)m my good man.

[mudskipper]

Could be worse. Years ago I was driving up to visit my sister at her new house in Hertfordshire. My son was navigating and after a while I thought hang on, this 'aint right. He was heading for a village of similar name down in Berkshire somewhere.

Maybe we should have a thread about worst times we got lost. Probably a few more years and I will get lost going down my garden.

I once ended up in Chartham instead of Chatham.