Hi Everybody!

Anyone who has been on here long enough will have heard the tale about going 5 miles out of our way just to buy a bottle of milk, or a paper, when the shop is on the other side of the street from where you live, just because we like driving our cars.

I was wondering, what is the longest unnecessary journey anyone has made. And what was the weak excuse you used to justify it.

To start the ball roling. I took an already somewhat roundabout route to the unlucky fried kitten in Bracknell on saturday only to find they had run out of kitten. For no particularly good reason I went to the one in Camberley.

Round trip about 30 miles and I wasn't even that hungry!

 

i quite occasionally go for just a drive, hey, no excuse should be needed for drivin the car, but anyway, about thirty miles too.

 

I'll probably do 50 miles tonight for no good reason.

Not bad for living on a 24 mile diameter island

 

I'll probably do 50 miles tonight for no good reason.

Not bad for living on a 24 mile diameter island

 

I'll probably do 50 miles tonight for no good reason.

Not bad for living on a 24 mile diameter island

 

I think JohnF should tell us about the time he ran his car in on night...

I'll try and find the link.

 

I work abroad for half the year, ewhich means when i am home, i only do miles to the shops, or driving for pleasure... Last year in a period of 5 months when i was home, i did 30k, purely pointless miles! :P

 

drove all the way round Wales to get home after missing the ferry to Ireland from Fishguard...

My House to Fishguard = 40 miles

Fishguard to My House = 420 miles

cost me £70 in fuel and £60 worth of front tyres...

All good fun. Not in a scoob though, but a fiesta!

 

Lol at owbob - how long was it before you realised you can't drive to Ireland

dnb thats a nasty tremor you got in your mouse clicky finger m8

nimbus - I think it was because he booked the car in for its 1k service the day after he collected it. But I don't remember where he went... please post link if you can find it.

 

I received notification of a training course to be held in Cumbria.
I set off on the Sunday night from Brighton. Drove to my course and was informed that my secretary had got the dates wrong and I was in fact due there the following week!

Turned back round and drove home- total mileage 580 ish. Then claimed for 10hrs overtime on a Sunday, plus mileage.

 

80 miles every day to and from work .


[Edited by HELLOM8 - 7/21/2003 1:55:49 PM]

 

Dr Nick,

That sounds like the one. I've done a search and can't find the link. Looks like the BBS only goes back as far as 1999. I think this must have been before then...

Great story though.

 

One summer I drove from Leicester to Sheffield with some friends... got bored and decided to visit the coast... so we drove to Portsmouth! can't remember how many miles that is, but its a good few! totally pointless but was a good laugh!

 

I live 1/2 mile from work and so far I have clocked 6000 miles in the last 4 months. They are all pointless expensive miles but I love them all

 

Got bored one day over the christmas break, was sat at home and wondering what to do. Ending jumping in my car and driving to Scotland and back from Lincolnshire, in pretty much one go. 620 miles, empty roads for most of the journey, quite relaxing. Drove up the A1 to Scotch corner, across the A66 and up the M6 into Scotland. Got pretty much to Glasgow and then came back. Cost about £50, and kept me amused for 8 hours....

 

i remember the story of the guy running his car in. he did something like 1500 miles up to scotland around all the mountains in terrential snow and rain and then went home all in 24 hours or something!!!!!

gav..

 

LOL

Work's nasty firewall more like

 

Ours was ging to ATM Motorsport in kent or werever the **** it was to buy a "Complete Aircon System" like nadgers was it they assured me that it was the full kit "Pha"[img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img] what about the dash switch and the internal matrix and the relays need I go what an absolute waste of space, advertising somthing then tell the buyer it's all there and it aint



Huxley

 

Roslin to Aviemore

266.8 miles round trip .... because I could

Have it

 

I went from Newcastle to Calais, bought a few thousand cigarettes and a few cases of wine, just to make it look like I had been to France for some reason!

 

Two of my friends drove to Manchester from Swindon (Wilts) to buy a Cream (the club, not the colour) jacket. Only to find the shop shut, they bought a kebab each then drove home - round trip of about 350miles.

 

I went to look at some houses in Penrith(could not even view them) 750mile trip and 13 hours of driving around(via Lake District)

 

I drove from bracknell to halifax and back in a day to get a present for the girlfriends birthday, all to avoid a £20 postage charge. Cost me £70 in petrol

 

John Felstead's little jaunt

 

None of mine are pointless, some are just a bit more boring than others

I agree about the drive to work though! 1/2 hour to do 4 miles this evening

 

ah, my old running in a sport thread.

Another rather bizzare trip i did was to drive the 600 miles to the nurburgring, drive all day on track, then drive 500 miles back to go to MIRA for the sideways world record, then 100 miles home, in a Westfield! all non stop except for about 4 hours sleep.

Red Bull should sponsor me.

 

Drove all the way from Switzerland to England and back to help a mate move with the excuse I had to follow the truck just in case it broke down

 

jf - shouldn't all your Ring times be invalidated due to substance influence?

 

not long after i passed my test, i was bored and had nothing todo so me and the girlfriend deceided to go out for a little drive and went from newcastle



to edinborough??!!?
we got there, looked for sumbody in a kilt (didnt see anybody), shouted out "im a englishman" bought a bar of choclate, went round the 1 way system (and got lost in it) and drove back

now that is pointless

 

no Brendan, you are confusing me with some other well known scoobynet ring drivers i think!