M25 - Any stories?

[ChinaTom]

This may have been a myth, but wasn't there once an elderly couple on their way from Kent to Scotland who circumnavigated the M25 12 times thinking they were on the A1, stopping at a service station and asking a copper whether they were nearly at Newcastle?

[retrogeezer]

yeh, I do remember reading something like that in the paper years ago...

[Andrew353w]

I thought the last bit of the M25 to open was the bit from Jn 21 to 23, which, if memory serves, was opened by Margaret Thatcher at 11.15 am on the day, with the first accident on that section being recorded at 11.16 am...

 

As to driving around Paris, one of our family holidays involved the Paris Perepherique... I pulled onto the French equivalent of the hard shoulder to look at the map and almost immediately a French police car pulled in behind me (a Peugeot 309 GTI, as I remember!) and in excellent English told me to follow him to the junction I was looking for. In a brilliant example of "l'entente cordial" I was given a police escort, complete with blue (and amber, why?) lights to my exit-Vive les gendarmes!

[ProgRocker]

I used to watch Spitting Image in my yoof and I remember they did a song about the M25.

[pogweasel]

M25 boils my piss. Literally. I've spent too much time staring at non-moving traffic on there whilst pondering whether the vehicle's cooling system or my own urinary tract will be the first to throw in the towel and erupt uncontrollably. The bit on the north west corner is currently very horrible, they've been digging it up for about 2 years.

[Mr Lobster]

^ I 'do' the M25 every month or so. Generally I'm going to Rickmansworth which means suffering those roadworks. Once spent a highly 'fun' three hours at a stand still just before the QE2 bridge as the police closed the road for an accident on a roasting hot day with no aircon. Not fun.

[ChinaTom]

M25 vs A406? Neither? Agree.

 

M25 always plays tricks on me when travelling to Heathrow. Leave 90 minutes earlier than required just in case of a stuffed up M25, yet the bugger is clear and I wait an extra 90 minutes in (smoke-free) airport. Benefit of hindsight kicks in and leave at a normal time only to get stuck for 90 minutes causing extreme blood pressure and pointless grovelling at check-in to let me on the flight. Can't win - don't think I have ever timed the journey right ever! (still beats the train though).

 

One of my current clients in UK is based in the Docklands, and this means I don't need the M25 - but the short stretch of North Circular is also a royal pain in the arse.

[Andrew353w]

If there were a "friends of the M25" club I'd have a single digit membership card! I practically live on the infamous north-west sector (sounds like something from a war film!) from Heathrow to Junction 23. In fact it's not too bad, if you time it right; I have to be at work by 6 am sometimes, so that's OK and leaving at lunchtime's usually OK as well. that said, last Friday afternoon was a killer!

 

I understand that the original plan was that the M25 would only link motorway to motorway; in other words you wouldn't be able to join or leave it from a non-motorway road. Apparently if all these journeys were taken off the M25 it would flow precisely as it was planned to do! It's people like me, joining it at Jn 23 & going 2 junctions to Enfield (Jn 25) that cause all the problems....

[Lankytim]

I love and hate the M25 in equal measure. Im regularly stuck on it for hours but im grateful someone bothered to build it. Imagine life without it? The North Circular is bad enough but the South Circular... its an absolute nightmare! Sat there.. running out of hours... the realisation you wont get home that day.. horrible.

[Pillock]

I've got an M25 story.

 

Years ago, we were coming back from a VW show somewhere. I can't even think which one it was to make us end up on the M25, but whatever. I remember we had a drag car on a trailer so it might have been London Voksfest.

 

There were three cars in convoy, and we're pootling up the inside lane of the M25. I can't give you a junction number but it's not long before you get to the M1, you come up a hill as 4 (or even 5) lanes and then the crawler lanes merge in, you go over the top, down a nice gradient the other side under a really old looking viaduct. Hopefully someone will know where I'm talking about.

 

As we reach the top, bearing in mind we've got a already-sluggish type2 towing a trailer, we're barely moving so plenty of time to look around. On the hard shoulder, there's a Jeep Cherokee, and I do a double-take as it looks like the rear passenger door is open, and there's a woman with her skirt up around her waist, pants round her ankles, feet on the floor and head on the rear bench. I get sorta interested, looks like something kinky is going off..... until she starts projectile-sh'tting as we start to pass. She was propelling pure liquid a good four feet away from the car, like a fucked-up brown fountain.

 

There is my M25 story. Enjoy your sunday lunches.

[Minimad5]

OH MY GOD !

 

Pillock, you crazy crazy man

 

We need a new thread "Funniest / weirdest thing ever seen"

 

That has made my day !

[Guest]

I've projectile shat.

 

Except it was green slime. I was in Belgium.

[FredTransit]

EEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! Too much information.....