A TRIP BY CAR

 It was a fine Saturday afternoon and Adrian invited his friends Da, Paul and Victor to go for a drive somewhere out of town. His friends said they would be delighted to go for a drive in the country.

Before starting on their trip, Adrian went to the garage. His car was a small one; he had bought it six months before; it had run about 5,000 kilometres. He checked the air in the tyres, the oil in the motor and the water in the radiator. Everything was a filling station to fill his tank with fuel. Now everything was all right and they could start on their drive.

The traffic was heavy; it seemed that all the city was driving to the country. In some places they had to cope with traffic jams.

Adrian was driving quite well, not slowly but not very quickly and rather carefully. Once or twice they met reckless drivers who did not drive their cars well. Adrian put his foot on the brake and cleverly stopped his in order to ovoid an accident. He drove carefully on the right side of the road.

When they one of the tyres got a puncture and Adrian had to stop his car. He had to use his spare wheel. Before changing the wheel, he had to raise the car clear of the ground. There was a lay-by where he could do that without interfering with the traffic.

"What would I have done it I hadn't a spare wheel?" he said to his friends. One their way back they witnessed a very serious road accident. A lorry loaded with heavy boxes was going slowly in front of acar. Both vehicles were driving up a hill. Suddenly the driver of the car decided to pass the lorry. Hardly had he begun to put on speed when a bus comming at high speed appeared over the top of the hill. To avoid a dangerous collision that might have caused several deaths and injuries the careless driver turned the steering wheel abruptly and droveinto the ditch.

"You see"{ Adrian said, "this accident would not have happened if the driver had not broken one of the main traffic rules."

In the evening they returned. They were thinking of the nice places they had seen.

A JOKE

One evening a drunk man came out of a pub and tried to get in his car. A policeman came up to him and asked: "Are you going to drive drunk as you are?" "What can I do?" answered the drunk man. "Can't you see I am drunk and I can't walk?"