MINI: Breakdowns

Emma's email about a safari breakdown, we were gifted the this amazing topic.

Awkward places to break down!

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
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Speaker 2 (00:28):
Just shard an amazing email about our listener Emma. On
Safari Tanzania, the tour guide tour bus breaks down. An
old mate who's doing the tour suggests that she gets
out and pushes it while he's in the safety of
the land rover. It's an astonishing story, but Emma has
given us this phone in topic today awkward spot. You

(00:49):
had to push start a calm. It's a very old
fashioned even phrase, isn't it? Push starts a car?

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Christian.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
I run out of petrol roughly one hundred meters away
from a servo as it was driving. The car was
rolling and I still have momentum and mass to roll
into the soo, falling short of the pump by five meters.
It was the most convenient breakdown and push ever. Find

(01:16):
the world's shortest breakdown and push five minutes?

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Almost did you even think? Can I get the hose
y to come out to meet me? Halfway? Linda's got
a story for us this morning.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Good morning, Linda, Good morning everybody.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Good good morning, and welcome to the show.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Now, what's your story.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
About? Thirteen years ago in country Victoria? And he was
buried in another little country And as the horse is
riding between towns, he the hair spread down in front
of his favorite pubs.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Oh wow, I'm just going to have time for one
last one for the road. That's that.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
I hope I have powers still from inside the coffin
to just just time for one more dream before I go.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
I promise if I'm driving your can you stop off?

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Ye? Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, A share ours please? Okay?

Speaker 1 (02:14):
What what amazing burial? So was he hosting his own wake? Maybe? Yeah, incredible?
And so what did you have to do? Did you
have to push start the hearse? Oh no, we were
already at.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
The burial place. We couldn't work out where the heart was,
so he was we pulled over at do and pub.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
How long until he got to the funeral?

Speaker 3 (02:43):
It was about half an hour late.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
I've never heard of anyone being linked to their own funeral,
was Linda. Lovely story? Thank you very much for sharing.
You have a good day. Take care of mate.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
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