All Comments on 'New Year Roadkill'

Leaves a fine after taste! Cute story, funny bit about the safety vests...good job

Good story!

5

Nice, oldstyle gentleman story, to relax and enjoy during the festive holidays.

An extremely well-written story, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Thank you again for sharing your talent, and best wishes for the new year!

Still intoxicated / over the legal limit after a period of 36+ hours....

The last Anon has obviously never been really drunk...

Please tell me this a fictional setting if not please tell me where it is so I can avoid it at night.

As usual, a wonderful store excellently told.

I have a question. Ogg says he writes proper English. He spelled what Anita fell from as a kerb. Is that correct? Here in the colonies I know it as a curb?

Not a complaint, just a question.

And THANKS for the enjoyable story

I hope I never get that pissed. Nice story, what a gentleman

For RRC2, in Britain the edge of a pavement is the kerb, unlike the colonies where the edge of a sidewalk is a curb. Well, we nearly speak the same language!

I've seen it moderately often in British fiction (and nonfiction too a few times, I think). Wikipedia says it's the normal British Commonwealth spelling, except in Canada.

That same article reminded me that in Britain a kerb is the edge of a "pavement," not a "sidewalk." I've noticed that a number of times in Ogg's stories. I've seen it elsewhere without understanding; it was always used in such a way that I didn't really notice, just assuming it somehow meant the street (which is what it would mean over here).

Very nice story, Ogg. No surprise there.

-- Wil Cox

Kerb is the Brish Term. Curb is part of a horse harness...

Drunk Drivers? I live on a seafront. The road outside has a 30 mph speed limit and half a mile away there is a kink in an otherwise straight road. Every Friday and Saturday nights car pass my house at 60 mph or faster before braking hard for the kink and/or getting around it with a squeal of tyres. On the way to the supermarket we travel along a road known locally as 'The Bends' because it has several right-angled corners. Every Saturday on Sunday morning there is at least one car that had come off the road on one of those bends. New Year's Eve? I would expect between eight and a dozen crashes within half a mile of my house. In my old house, I had just had rebuilt a garden wall that was 100 years old. It had stood for six weeks before on New Year's Eve a drunk driver pushed another car through my new wall...

Simple yet Liked it.

Warmed my heart? Yep.

Aroused me? Not the point.

A good read? 4.25/5

A bit short for my liking but it still is worth reading.

2022 Update on drunk drivers. This story is fiction but:

On a Saturday night just before Christmas 2021, the local police stopped every car on an A road between midnight and 3 am. They breath and drug tested every driver. That was over 100 cars. Shockingly 40% were either over the drink or drug driving limits (some both). After 3 am they stopped because their presence had been reported on social media and the number of cars had reduced to next to nothing.

Great ! Amusing / light-hearted / sensitive and maybe a lesson for all of us ? ! ? !

Thank You !

Scott