As a child I remember always being fascinated by a bird’s ability to fly southwards in winter. Despite never attending any type of school or receiving any training from their parents, these tiny feathered creatures are almost born with a perfectly tuned in compass.
Surely if a feathered creature, which is usually no more then a few inches tall, can fly southwards for winter, a young fit and healthy 5ft 4 female, in a branded Foxtons mini should find her mission of driving a north bound to Camden fairly straight forward and easy right?
WRONG!
Despite much reassurance from the other drivers, and the car maintenance men that the journey was only going take no longer 30 minutes, this driver took almost three and a half hours. Every employee at Foxtons was left baffled by this extremely length time scale.
Was this driver stuck in bad traffic jam? Did they break down on the main road with no signal and failed to call for help? Or has this driver fallen the biggest trick in the book, in which women really are more then just bad drivers, they’re truly awful.
This driver really did put the word BAD, into female driving, despite completing a extra driving course called Pass Plus. The purpose of Pass Plus is for a qualified driver to gain more experience of driving in a variety of driving conditions, such as up hill, in a rural village, in a congested town and on busy motorway.
One of the things which Pass Plus doesn’t teach is the ability to map read, which is something I quickly came to discover. As I found my self behind the wheel of the Foxtons mini which was heading towards the south of London instead north based destination I had intended.
Many people have asked in wonder, at what point had I realised that my car was heading the completely the wrong way. My answer is always told with a complete poker face expression, “when a GIANT sign on my left, informed me that Heathrow airport was at the next left turning”...... Oh dear...
