handyman Posted August 18, 2007 Share Posted August 18, 2007 amazing stuff this........ you are reversing a 30-40K motorhome, and the passenger is in the passenger seat peering out the window, instead of getting out and looking. driver. "I'll reverse into that space, i should be able to thread this 40K van in there." lazy passenger. "yes dear, i'll sit on this nice seat and tell you to stop when i hear some crunching of metal" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dancer Posted August 19, 2007 Share Posted August 19, 2007 Sounds about right handyman.It will still be your fault though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dancer Posted August 19, 2007 Share Posted August 19, 2007 Sounds about right handyman.It will still be your fault though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommiK Posted August 19, 2007 Share Posted August 19, 2007 That's why it is good to get the reversing camera. :-D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howie Posted August 19, 2007 Share Posted August 19, 2007 Lucky with my missus and whether its hand signals or verbal always gets me parked up with a minimum of fuss and effort. Once caught the roof with a low branch some years ago, but never repeated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Parke Posted August 19, 2007 Share Posted August 19, 2007 I am most fortunate inasmuch as Cherry will always position herself either in or out of the m'home, whichever is the best position, to help me reverse if required. However, as our m'home is only 5:95 meters in lenght we do not normally have to have a 'guide' when reversing. Regards, Mike & Cherry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Git Posted August 19, 2007 Share Posted August 19, 2007 Couldn't do it without my wife. I find it difficult to judge distances with the varifocals, so I like something big to aim at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J9withdogs Posted August 19, 2007 Share Posted August 19, 2007 In the absence of a co-driver, I am currently trying to train my two cocker spaniels. If I succeed I may start doing it on a professional basis ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel B Posted August 19, 2007 Share Posted August 19, 2007 When we were at the Malvern show and nicely pitched up another motorhome arrived, the wife got out and told the husband what to do, he did the opposite ... yelled comment from the wife for all to hear (very appropriately!) "You're cak-handed!" :$ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W3526602 Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 Come on! Come On! Faster! Faster! Come on!........Now look what you've done. My experience is that when I'm driving fast, and something happens, my foot is instantly on the brake. But when driving very slowly, usually in reverse, I tend to look around to see what is causing that funny noise. 8-) 602 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W3526602 Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 Okay, the road is clear..........if you hurry! 602 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handyman Posted August 20, 2007 Author Share Posted August 20, 2007 in a campsite, doing a 3 point turn on a country road etc, would the passenger please get out and make sure the van doesnt get hurt. and stop doing the 'you can go now' (one second pause) 'after the blue mini' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Git Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 The one I like (especially abroad) is where you have wall-to-wall impatient rush-hour traffic, and a choice of several very adjacent exits from a junction or roundabout. Suddenly, over to the left, there appears a furiously waving hand and the frantic cry, "Up there --- quick!!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twooks Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 you sound just like my oh - not related are you :-> :-> B-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Jones Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 J9withdogs - 2007-08-19 2:25 PM In the absence of a co-driver, I am currently trying to train my two cocker spaniels. If I succeed I may start doing it on a professional basis ;-) Training dogs, or reversing people's motorhomes? T x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Syd Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 When in Europe and I signal to turn left to pull out and overtake my passenger ALWAYS leans forward to look in the mirror and blocks my view. Or Holds up a magazine that blocks my view Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handyman Posted August 20, 2007 Author Share Posted August 20, 2007 forgot abou that one (lol) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Syd Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 "I knew you should have turned left back there" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devonchris Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 turn left here , when it should have been right chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel B Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 I usually am the passenger and if my husband listens to me we never get lost, however, he sometimes thinks he knows best .... oh dear, wrong way again! He even argues with the sat nav! Anyway, to the point, when I had to drive us back from France in May (sunburn and all that, won't bore you all again!), he was trying to do a bit of navigating to 'help' me, he was totally hopeless, couldn't read the map properly and telling me to turn right instead of left and vice versa. He often gets his right and left mixed up - summut to do with being left handed I think, but unfortunately it's not consistent so he can be correct one time, then the next it's the opposite of what he tells me ... it would've made life much simpler if he just got it wrong all the time then I'd know to do the opposite all the time! In the end I had to tell him to stop trying to be helpful and to shut up (at one point banned him from sitting in the front seat) and leaving me and the sat nav to our own devices - no problems at all from then on! (lol) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Syd Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 "Are we nearly there now" Just when I have realised that we are lost Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howie Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 "We passed that house 20 minutes ago did,nt we" . ("Shaddup", to yourself of course). Why do we men find it so difficult to admit we,ve got it wrong when it comes to driving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davenewellhome Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 Mel B - 2007-08-22 6:57 PM I usually am the passenger and if my husband listens to me we never get lost, however, he sometimes thinks he knows best .... oh dear, wrong way again! He even argues with the sat nav! Anyway, to the point, when I had to drive us back from France in May (sunburn and all that, won't bore you all again!), he was trying to do a bit of navigating to 'help' me, he was totally hopeless, couldn't read the map properly and telling me to turn right instead of left and vice versa. He often gets his right and left mixed up - summut to do with being left handed I think, but unfortunately it's not consistent so he can be correct one time, then the next it's the opposite of what he tells me ... it would've made life much simpler if he just got it wrong all the time then I'd know to do the opposite all the time! In the end I had to tell him to stop trying to be helpful and to shut up (at one point banned him from sitting in the front seat) and leaving me and the sat nav to our own devices - no problems at all from then on! (lol) It has nothing to do with being left handed Mel. I'm left handed and don't have a problem. A friend of mine many years ago (right handed by the way) always got left and right mixed up but we found a solution for him navigating, he said peas for left and carrots for right, as long as the driver (usually me) could remember this all was well. Strange world innit? D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranger Posted August 23, 2007 Share Posted August 23, 2007 I call my wife the "Managing Director" as she always seem to be able to direct me to exactly where she wants me to go, whether or not it is where I want to go. She has not bent anything yet, so no complaints. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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