A good chap. I remember driving a friend’s horrible old Vauxhall 101 in London
in the early 70s: we had parked just off Piccadilly Circus and I drove off
without switching on the lights. Some police stopped us, let me understand the
error of my ways and then let us go. It was a Saturday, it was just before
midnight and we had been to the pub. There was no hint of checking my state of
inebriation (not high, as it happens). I still remember that incident when I
walk across Piccadilly Circus . . .
I’d better check my light bulb spares.
Chris
On 24 Mar 2014, at 12:28, Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> No. The bike is still sitting in the garage. Has not made it out for its
> first ride of the season.
>
> We were leaving a dinner with some friends outside of Bath, about 30 miles
> south of here, and it was snowing. As we drove away from their house, one of
> my headlights went out. Oddly, both high and low beam were gone. I’ve _never_
> had this happen before. Usually, the low goes but the high continues to work.
> The thought of the other side failing kept me on edge. As we drove through a
> large intersection in Bath proper, a police officer pulled me over to tell me
> my headlamp was gone. It was 11 p.m., the witching hour on weekend nights for
> cops and drunk drivers to find their lives intersecting. I’m sure that’s what
> he was doing. But, like I said, me and the wife both have gray hair, we
> didn’t reek of whisky, and the cop politely wished us well and told us to
> drive safely.
>
> He also gave me a warning card to “remind” me to get the headlight fixed. As
> we drove away, another “popeye” turned the corner and my cop whipped around
> in the road and flipped on his blue lights. He was a busy fellow that night.
>
> I got the light fixed the next day. No one seems to know why both high and
> low beams failed simultaneously.
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