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Spooky motorway incident last night!

71 replies

RangeOfCall · 13/08/2020 09:12

I currently have a courtesy car. I ended up driving very late last night and it was pretty much pitch black (2 hour drive home, motorway).

Anyway, loads of cars kept flashing me and then beeping. I couldn't work out why. But something felt very odd. I couldn't see the rode behind me in my side mirrors. To the left was black. This man drove beside me whilst he was on the fast line and done a hand movement to suggest lights.

I pulled over at the next turn off and came to a side street shortly after. Looked like lights were on '3' to suggest fully on? My own car is automatic lights that adjust so I had forgotten all about this stuff.

Anyway, back on the motorway thinking it was sorted and I still couldn't see well. So more cars beeped. I was frightened that nobody could see me until it was too late so pulled over to the next place and it was this police only thing that went like a turn off but was no entry. I panicked. I couldn't build up speed to enter the motorway again like a hard shoulder. I'd have to reverse and join again like that but there was no space really and it was busy for late at night.

Another car pulled up and all sorts of things went through my head. This woman came to my car and tapped on the window. I rolled it down and she smiled and looked so safe. She told me what to do. The lights came on full beam (it was a bit to the left like the indicator). She told me to keep going and I'll eventually join the M11 again. I looked again. She was gone. Bright blue car gone. Nowhere to be seen. Vanished.

She didn't reverse out and didn't go in front.

Spooky.

OP posts:
LadyR77 · 13/08/2020 12:08

You will likely have had the daytime running lights on - the dashboard lights up, and the front headlights do come on (but only partially), but not the rear ones. My husband works as a driver at night and sees people driving round like this every single night. He stopped one woman to tell her the other night and she didn't have a clue what he was talking about!

Pobblebonk · 13/08/2020 12:10

Loving the concept that someone spends the afterlife educating themselves on how modern car lighting systems work and hanging around waiting for an opportunity to help out. I wonder if they also help with changing tyres and checking brakes?

Why didn't you just check the car's manual?

Alexindiamondarmour · 13/08/2020 12:12

Or pull over and google how to get the lights to work properly

Pobblebonk · 13/08/2020 12:13

who knows, but it sounds like you just met your guardian angel

Bloody inefficient guardian angel if she didn't pop up before OP started her journey on the unlit motorway or the first time she pulled off to check.

FlibbertyGiblets · 13/08/2020 12:14
Confused
blacktop · 13/08/2020 12:15

It's an honest mistake.

An honest mistake would be starting to drive, realising the lights were not in and switching them on, in the space of about 10 seconds. What you did was downright dangerous, don't try and minimise it be sue you have an automatic setting on your own lights Hmm

myrtleWilson · 13/08/2020 12:16

Do we all get assigned jobs in the afterlife then? Is it based on pre -afterlife skills or just a sorting hat affair?

Feminist10101 · 13/08/2020 12:18

DRLs are bloody dangerous. Dashboard lit up like bloody Blackpool and an almost invisible rear.

Knocka · 13/08/2020 12:20

Do we all get assigned jobs in the afterlife then? Is it based on pre -afterlife skills or just a sorting hat affair?

Bags me the half-assed job where guardian angels apparently leave feathers around people's gardens as a Sign of Something Supernatural. You could sub-contract out to a couple of pigeons and go on permanent holiday, rather than having to correct people's driving on motorways.

Whatthebloodyell · 13/08/2020 12:20

I think you must have been high on adrenaline due to being bloody scared about how easily you could have caused a fatal crash. And therefore you didn’t notice the woman leave and your mind has constructed this story in order to focus on the ‘woo’ aspect rather than how bloody stupid and close to death you were.

isabellerossignol · 13/08/2020 12:21

@Feminist10101

DRLs are bloody dangerous. Dashboard lit up like bloody Blackpool and an almost invisible rear.
They're only dangerous if you use them at night instead of turning the lights on.
BertieBotts · 13/08/2020 12:25

Perhaps she was an off duty policewoman and so familiar with that slip road, followed you as she was concerned, explained what to do (relieved you weren't drunk/she didn't need to call someone to actually arrest you) and then drove off (fast, because police trained driver) before you noticed?

Being dark behind you was due to having your lights off, not some spooky phenomenon.

homecomingcabbie · 13/08/2020 12:25

This is terrifying but not because of some made up rubbish about a woman disappearing. Nobody who cannot tell if they have the headlights on or not should not be allowed to drive, it's the height of incompetence. I hope you have been reported by somebody for dangerous driving/driving without due care and attention or whatever the appropriate bit of driving legislation applies.

SwedishEdith · 13/08/2020 12:25

@DullDullWeather

There is always one like Popcorn lover

Why don't you whom scoff, leave us whom believe, to it ??!!

Only one? I'd be terrified if most people weren't like @popcornlover
lookatmememe · 13/08/2020 12:27

Ah, you have encountered an angel. Just be thankful and continue being the kind person you must be to have received a little bit of much needed help !

myrtleWilson · 13/08/2020 12:29

@Knocka

Do we all get assigned jobs in the afterlife then? Is it based on pre -afterlife skills or just a sorting hat affair?

Bags me the half-assed job where guardian angels apparently leave feathers around people's gardens as a Sign of Something Supernatural. You could sub-contract out to a couple of pigeons and go on permanent holiday, rather than having to correct people's driving on motorways.

Excellent thinking there Knocka....
captainprincess · 13/08/2020 12:33

@Knocka this cheered me up Grin

thehumblediamond · 13/08/2020 12:36

@lookatmememe

Ah, you have encountered an angel. Just be thankful and continue being the kind person you must be to have received a little bit of much needed help !
If that's what angels do then they can bugger off - turning up after OP was driving dangerously for ages instead of just turning the fucking on lights on or --even better- taking the car keys so OP couldn't drive the car at all.
Iminaglasscaseofemotion · 13/08/2020 12:37

FFS no one crashed, everything was fine. It's so boring when people just come on to parrot what pps have said. Yes it was pretty dangerous and I'm sure you are all perfect drivers that have never done anything dangerous while driving 🙄

Knocka · 13/08/2020 12:42

Ah, you have encountered an angel. Just be thankful and continue being the kind person you must be to have received a little bit of much needed help !

Yes, the OP was very lucky to have been assigned a high-grade, car-aware guardian angel prepared to lurk around on motorways and save lives, rather than the type I would clearly be, working to rule and occasionally deigning to drop a feather in someone's path if I were really being leaned on by management. Grin

YgritteSnow · 13/08/2020 12:47

  • No, there is always more than one sensible poster.

This is in Chat, not the "Woo" topic.*

What a po-faced post Grin

YgritteSnow · 13/08/2020 12:48

And now I have read the rest of thread. Bursting with sourness!

I bet you're really glad you posted aren't you OP?!

SoupDragon · 13/08/2020 12:51

@YgritteSnow

* No, there is always more than one sensible poster.

This is in Chat, not the "Woo" topic.*

What a po-faced post Grin

Whereas yours is just so insightful and full of wisdom. 🙄
Mintjulia · 13/08/2020 13:01

Christ OP, you are supposed to be competent, and you couldn’t even tell that your lights weren’t on properly!

Even with other drivers flashing and beeping, you still couldn’t work it out and carried on your journey.

That’s terrifying, not spooky.

Glittertwins · 13/08/2020 13:02

Someone should have shown you the basics with the courtesy car. The M11 goes nowhere near Watford, unless it's a mistype for M1