While I was staying down in North Carolina, Bonita wanted us all to head down to the beach. So we did. Josh was driving, June was in the passenger seat and Bonnie and I sat squished in the back seat.

Josh has a Mercury Cougar - which has bucket seats in the rear, and my god were they uncomfortable.

Getting to the beach was fine, it was a nice hot day and the sea was very refreshing... getting home again was a problem.

Josh's car broke down!

First all his dials died and dropped to zero, and it started acting rather odd. So he pulled over and grabbed his mini battery charger from his boot. He plugged it onto the battery and after a few minutes we set off again.

About 5 miles later the dials died again, and this time the engine started misfiring and spluttering, so he pulled off to the side and stopped again. There was no starting the car up again this time. It was totally dead. 100 miles from home!!

We waited for around an hour for a tow truck to arrive, it took so long the battery totally drained and the hazard lights eventually gave up. No one on the highway wanted to pull over, what ever happened to good Samaritans? You know what they say about London Buses? You wait for ages and 2 come along at once? Well the same happened with tow trucks. One pulled over, we thought it was ours but it was just another driver pulling over to check we were ok, but 5 minutes later our tow arrived. It was a brand new flat bed tow truck, very spiffy.

There was only one problem with the tow though... the cab wasn't big enough for all of us. June needed to sit in the air conditioning so she got the first seat, and Bonita went with her mum of course. So where were Josh and I to sit?

IN THE CAR ON THE BACK OF THE FLAT BED!

The driver was insane... I don't think he slowed down the entire way back. It was like a rollercoaster in the car on the back of the truck. The worst was taking the exit from the highway pretty fast. The g-force made us feel like we'd come flying off the back of the flatbed!

Anyway, we made it back safely... albeit rather shaken.

I don't recommend travelling on the back of a flat bed tow truck in a car, that's for damn sure.