A Career Change?

I've learnt something this week. I've learnt that having chance to skid around a frozen runway as a young driver many years ago has made me a confident driver on icy roads. Back then I shrugged off the lecture and half heartedly agreed to be shown how to drive in snowy conditions. "You'll be glad of it one day" he said.

I've spent a large part of this week crawling along at a snails pace on frozen, snowy roads. I've watched crazy people hurtle out of junctions, speed round corners and end up in the ditch. I've seen cautious drivers pull in front of faster drivers and almost cause a pile up. I've watched people drive with a small circle of windscreen to peer through and then seen them have to pull over as the snow on the roof slid over the windscreen obscuring their view. I've watched idiots chat away on their phones in the fast lane of an icy dual carriageway and white van men with the impression that icy conditions don't apply to them.

And being the perfect driver like what I am, I have spent a lot of energy voicing my disgust at their lack of consideration for other people's lives.

I have also realised that I could be like Lisa.......
See? I even have the right kind of anorak!

Yes, I think I have the right credentials to become an IRT - to those of you unfamiliar with the TV programme, that's Ice Road Trucker! I think I am calm and confident enough to drive a truck across the millimetre thick ice of the Arctic Circle. Hell Yeah. If I can do it in a Citroen C3 I can do it with a truck! Watch this space.