STOP IT!

PERHAPS THE CELEBRATION OF DIVERSITY IN GENERAL SHOULD INCLUDE CELEBRATING THE DIVERSITY OF HANDBRAKE TYPES

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I HAD BARELY pulled up in the driveway when my daughter started stepping down from the old Discovery 4x4. She was putting one foot on the ground at the moment my foot was coming off the brake pedal, prompting the Disco to lurch two or three centimetres back down the slope before settling. Caught on the hop, as it were, she said: “Doesn’t the handbrake work?” “Perfectly,” I replied, “That little move came from normal slack in the driveline. Don’t worry, the old girl is well anchored to terra firma now.”