A Horseradish
Wednesday 14th September 2016 8:13pm [Edited]
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So we were just on the approach road to Titsey where they have filled in all of the potholes. There's a cow and a calf walking side by side ahead of us and then a farmer on a tractor zooms out of the gate to the left. The idea is that his presence will push them along a bit but they stop so he stops and gets out of the tractor and for some reason goes back into the field and he's then behind a hedge so we can't see him .
But he hadn't put the hand brake on and it's a slight incline so the tractor started to move backwards towards us just as a smart car arrived at the back of our car so that we couldn't reverse. My father froze and bellowed out as I shouted steer right but luckily the farmer ran out from the field and got into the tractor just in time. This was the closest shave we have had since an unmanned van moved at right angles in front of us from the right hand side of a road before smashing into a metal gate on the left.