‘Ramp ahead’ said the sign. Now often when a sign says ‘ramp’ that usually means something completely different to the thing we ordinary civilians mean by ramp – a bit of a step up or down in the road surface (or even an enormous chasm in the road) but this was a proper ramp. It was at the point where the road passed through a farm yard and the farmer was pumping some sort of agricultural substance from one part to the other and a nice steep metal ramp had been placed going over the hose. On the way out, going up the hill, this was merely a pain. But coming back, accelerating down the hill, it became something else entirely. It became a jump.
My outer thirty-*cough*-year-old was reaching for the brake as I realised this, but it seemed my inner twelve-year-old was in charge of the pedals and still accelerating. Sadly, some caution kicked in at the last minute and I didn’t get a lot of air – but if it’s still there next week, I’ll have to have another go. And properly this time.
Helmet? Why on earth would I want to wear a helmet?
January 30, 2009 at 6:31 pm |
And I don’t think Evel Knievel ever jumped a slurry pipe, so there could be a record in it.
January 30, 2009 at 6:32 pm |
we have a sign at the place that I work, it says.
you came to college with your brains don’t leave without them.
wear a helmet
January 30, 2009 at 7:06 pm |
John – ah, I left my brains at college long ago, in the bar I think.
Autolycus – an open slurry pit – now there would be a challenge. I think I’ll pass though.
January 31, 2009 at 1:17 am |
pass though or pass through – your choice
January 31, 2009 at 10:18 am |
hehe
February 1, 2009 at 5:42 pm |
Our RAMP signs are back…the road has been repaired twice since my last post on the subject. I honestly don’t know why they keep trying to repair it and not just span the damage with a ramped reinforced concrete slab. And call it a bridge…
February 1, 2009 at 7:03 pm |
Because there’s money in their road-fixing budget, but not in their infrastructure budget, probably.
February 2, 2009 at 6:51 pm |
cynic! :c)
February 3, 2009 at 9:12 am |
No, just spent far too long working in the public sector…