So every night this hare crosses a busy main road and, very night, he passes a tortoise quivering at the kerb. One night he stops and says to the tortoise, "You should go over to the other side, it's great there"
The tortoise says, "It's OK for you, you can whizz across safely, but I'm just too slow".
The hare says, "Well, I've had a few close shaves, when I've been a bit tired, or not concentrating. Couple of times I've got stranded with cars bearing down on me"
"How did you avoid getting run over?, asks the tortoise.
"Well," said the hare, "my old grandad taught me this trick. If you get stranded just look towards the oncoming traffic and position yourself right between the headlights, then duck. That way the car will pass right over you. Job done!"
"Sounds great", said the tortoise. "Do you think I should try it now?"
"Go ahead", said the hare. "It's a fail-safe way to get across"
The tortoise starts trundling across when, sure enough a car's headlights appear in view.
"Remember what I said", called the hare.
The tortoise lined himself up between the headlights, and ducked.
The next minute there was an awful crunching sound as the car passed and the mortally wounded tortoise used his last breaths to call out to the hare, "What when wrong? I thought you said it was fail-safe".
"You were really, really, unlucky", said the hare.
"First time I've seen a Reliant Robin on this stretch of road!"
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