The Drivers' Blog takes a wrong turn in the Midlands...
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"I was met by a grinning middle-aged man with a midlife-crisis ponytail at the back of his otherwise bald and shiny head, who was waving his arms around in what I thought was a crude attempt to warn me that his car was in the way of my truck. To be careful, I navigated this obstacle and carried on to my destination.
"Oh! it was a dead end. The grinning fool had apparently been trying to warn me that it was not the entrance to the industrial estate, but in fact a dead end, and that me and hundreds of other idiots like me make the same mistake on a daily basis.
"As I slipped the truck into reverse and switched off the reverse beeper so as not to make matters worse for my enviroment, I was met with what can only be described as a volley, nae, a torrent, of vile abuse.
"Not from the grinning man, he was still grinning, but from the mad cow who seemed to live with him and had appeared out of the house like it was on fire..."
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