Incident 02

Incident 2 - Wheel Spinning on the Driveway

‘Stuck Lady’ is obviously well aware of my 'thing' about seeing women driving when stuck (or fetish as she likes to call it!). Over the years she has on occasions agreed to dress up for me, and allowed me to film her driving, whilst stuck in various locations.

Unknown to her, I have on a couple of occasions 'set her up' to get her stuck with her knowledge. On a couple of occasions I have managed to film her spinning her wheels on our driveway!

Our drive is on quite a severe slope leading UP to the road. It has grass next to it one side and steps on the other (see photos). We used to always back our cars down onto the drive, so that we were left with a pretty simple straight drive up and off in the mornings. However, some time ago we changed cars, and bought a Mazda RX8 rear wheel drive sports car, which is very 'light' on the rear! Further more 'Stuck Lady' decided that it was easier to drive straight down our drive each evening, and then reverse out in the mornings. The visibility out the back of a RX8 is pretty limited and therefore she decided that trying to reverse over the brow of a steep slope and down a pretty narrow drive on a 1 in 5 slope was asking for trouble!

I have been quietly waiting for an opportunity to set her up for over a year. I needed to be able to park her car over to one side of the drive, so that the rear nearside wheel was on the grass. Unfortunately events often conspired against me and either the grass has been too dry, she has been with me, or I haven’t had the opportunity to drive her car! The result - no chance of a new video clip! Until now that is!

The other evening, for the first time in a long time I was ‘allowed’ to drive her car! I was quite late getting back, meaning she had already done to bed. The weather in the UK had been very very wet, resulting in our grass being nice and soggy. Luckily, the rubbish men were due to collect our garden waste bin the following morning, so that gave me a legitimate reason for parking the car towards one side of the drive. There is not much room to get the wheely bin past the car when it parked in the centre of the drive. In any case I could tell her that I couldn’t pull a heavy garden bin up that steep slope, when walking on wet grass could I?

My excuse for actually getting on the grass was going to be that I could hardly see the drive as I turned in, as the rain was slashing down when I got home (which was true) and further, I hardly ever drive her car, never mind park it late at night on a steep drive that I am trying to keep partially clear for a rubbish bin! It sounded 'plausible' to me!

Having stopped with the rear nearside wheel just about completely on the grass, I went inside and put the video camera battery on charge before excitedly heading off to bed.

Whilst Stuck Lady was having her shower the following morning, I smuggled the video camera downstairs and carefully positioned it in a small cardboard box, which I had strategically cut a hole in, and which I had used for the two previous filming sessions on the drive. I placed it at the bottom of the drive next to another old dustbin, so that the camera had a nice view of the side of the car. The pile of rubbish that this bag was amongst was things that I told her I would be taking to the dump sometime that morning.

It was raining heavily and I had to make a decision about power for the camera. In the past I had used an extension lead from the garage to make sure that the power was secure. The disadvantage was that Stuck Lady could decide to go out into the lean to at the side of our house to get something from the freezer and would then see the lead. Also, I did not fancy running a 240-volt electric lead along a wet path whilst it was still raining! In any case, I felt that I did not have anything to worry about, as I had fully charged up the camera battery. Although the last time I had used the battery it had only lasted about 20 mins, I knew that I would only need it to last 5 mins at the most this time, as I could turn the camera on just before she left.

Just to try and make sure that the wheel lost traction on the grass, I squirted a lot of washing up liquid onto a cloth and gave the rear tyre a really good covering. The rubber felt very slick by the time I had finished!

Just before Stuck Lady set off for work, I went out to take the dog for a walk, setting the camera to record on the way past. I decide to go out of the house, as the last time I arranged for her to get stuck on the drive, when she got home that evening she told me about her problem getting off the wet grass. She then accused me of 'arranging' it, and suggested that I was probably inside the house listening out for the sound of her wheels spinning. As if I would do such a thing! Anyway, I thought that if I was out of the house there is no way she would 'suspect' me of parking there deliberately, so off I went.

It’s difficult to concentrate on throwing the dogs his ball for half an hour in a field, when you are certain that your wife is likely to be spinning her wheels all alone on your driveway at home!

Once the dog was knackered, I went home and as I approached the top of the drive I saw the tell tell sign of mud on the grass. You can see what I mean in the second photo above – the mud just showed as I approached from this same direction.

Yippee, the plan had worked, and she had obviously spun her wheels exactly where I had planned her to, so the camera should have caught a really nice video clip. My hands were almost shaking as I took the video camera out of the box. I was not too perturbed when I saw that the camera battery was dead, as I had been out with the dog for about half an hour, and in any case I had heard Stuck Lady driving along our road, only 5 minutes after I had left. I got the camera plugged into the mains and rewound the tape to the start. I pressed 'play' and there was the RX8 sat nicely on the steep drive with it rear wheel sat on wet grass. It was exciting, as I already knew that she was about to spin her wheel, as I had seen the mud she made trying to drive out. Then DISASTER. The recording stopped! The camera battery had lasted 4 minutes 30 seconds from a new charge! I had missed her being stuck by less than 30 seconds! I was gutted!

To make matters worse, in the past, I have set up a second camera (as a backup) actually in the house, looking down on the driveway and car from above. However, this particular morning, I was running late, and for once, she was running early! I therefore only had time to set up one of them. The outside camera is always best, as you can then see the nearside wheel actually spinning. The camera inside the house is positioned directly above the car, and so you only get to hear the nice sounds for most of the time.

I spoke to Stuck Lady at her work a few hours later, and she did not even mention being stuck, unlike the previous times when she had told me all about it.

Note to self – buy a new camera battery or make up a long 6 volt lead and hide it underground between the garden gate and the garage!

Regarding photo no. 5 - you will see that there are tyre marks across the mud. To start with I wondered how they got there, but then I realised that she must have eventually given up trying to reverse up the drive. Having made this muddy rut, she would have then allowed the car to roll forwards, whilst turning the front wheels to the right, in order to get the offending tyre off of the grass. As this tyre rolled down the drive onto the tarmac, it would have left its normal tread pattern in the mud that she had created by spinning her wheel to start with.