Do any other CAers have a nick name that is only ever used at Le Mans?
Here is the story of mine.
It is usually left to me every year to plan the whole trip, book tickets and ferry, provide food and beer and generally get a bunch of repribates there and back without any of them getting arrested or molested. I don't mind doing this. cos once I get there I can sit back get pissed and enjoy myself knowing that everything is taken care of.
The one thing I do insist on doing is the cooking and even if I say so myself I am a bit of a mean cook. I start preparing food about a month before the off, making a curry, marinating all the BBQ stuff and bashing together a pasta sauce. This is all frozen ready for the tour. I also do the shopping for all the fresh stuff salad bread breakfast stuff etc the morning of departure.
On this particular Saturday evening in 1999 I was busy preparing the meal while listening to Radio Le Mans on my earphones. I was just drizzling the dressing on the salad as Peter Dumbrecks flying Mercedes incident happened. I was so intent on listening to this that I didn't notice that I had drowned the salad in dressing. I thought , Oh well they are all pissed they won't notice.
They all tucked into it and seemed to enjoy it all. After they had finished our very own pirotechnic moniter Semtex Stu was heard to say
"Great meal sh*t salad"
At that moment in time a nick name was born, and I have had to live with it for aweek in June every year since.
So if you see a bunch of guys wandering around wearing their "Pantyspider Tours" t-shirts the good looking one with sh*t SALAD BOB emblazoned accross his back will be me.
Please come over and say hello as it will make a change from talking to a bunch of ungrateful bastards that are my mates.
