Friday, August 12, 2011

Life in the slow lane

I came across a great story about a fellow van driver the other day.

A pet shop owner was travelling along the M26 on his way to pick up some tropical fish from Heathrow Airport - as you do - when he spotted a tortoise making its way, slowly, along the slow lane.

The van driver explained, “I was just coming off the M20 and going on to the M26 and it was really quiet, no traffic in front of me and none behind me.

“As I was going along I just caught something out of the corner of my eye and I immediately thought 'tortoise'.”

Since the road behind was quiet, the van driver pulled over to the hard shoulder and waved an oncoming car over into the next lane so that he could safely grab the travelling tortoise off the tarmac.

The man added, “It was lucky really because at that point a stream of HGVs were coming along the road so he would have come out a lot flatter than he is now.

“He got a trip up to Heathrow and back and now he's living with me and has been nicknamed M26.”
What a lucky animal! I suppose it figured it should be in the slow lane, but at a maximum of 0.3mph to its name the slow lane wasn’t quite slow enough.

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