Hi everybody
I have been touring France in my dimension, and I have just had a peculiar experience, which may serve as a warning to others.
I was driving down one of the excellent French motorways, and I stopped at a roadside 'Aire' with a restaurant. Having had a coffee and sandwich I drove on down the motorway, but I had only gone about a mile, when a woman was waving frantically from the side of the road, so I pulled over and stopped.
The woman then told me in French/English that her husband was having a heart attack in the car which was parked about 100 yards from where we we were standing. I then started walking towards the parked car, when I suddenly realised that the woman was not rushing to her supposed dying husband, but was staying near my motorhome, this aroused my suspicions.
I told the woman that there was nothing that I could do and on looking down the motorway I saw that there was an emergency telephone a short distance away. So I suggested that she drive her husband there.
When I drove off I realised the scam was to steal my motorhome. If I had rushed down to the supposedly dying husband the woman would have got into my motorhome and driven off. The man would then have driven off and left me standing on the motorway, sans dimension!!
The two of them must have seen me at the restaurant and realised that I was on my own.
I must apologise for this long winded explanation, but perhaps it is a warning to others who drive on there own.
I have been touring France in my dimension, and I have just had a peculiar experience, which may serve as a warning to others.
I was driving down one of the excellent French motorways, and I stopped at a roadside 'Aire' with a restaurant. Having had a coffee and sandwich I drove on down the motorway, but I had only gone about a mile, when a woman was waving frantically from the side of the road, so I pulled over and stopped.
The woman then told me in French/English that her husband was having a heart attack in the car which was parked about 100 yards from where we we were standing. I then started walking towards the parked car, when I suddenly realised that the woman was not rushing to her supposed dying husband, but was staying near my motorhome, this aroused my suspicions.
I told the woman that there was nothing that I could do and on looking down the motorway I saw that there was an emergency telephone a short distance away. So I suggested that she drive her husband there.
When I drove off I realised the scam was to steal my motorhome. If I had rushed down to the supposedly dying husband the woman would have got into my motorhome and driven off. The man would then have driven off and left me standing on the motorway, sans dimension!!
The two of them must have seen me at the restaurant and realised that I was on my own.
I must apologise for this long winded explanation, but perhaps it is a warning to others who drive on there own.
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