Originally Posted by entwisi (Post 636923)

Its 232 thousand miles on average to the moon and I've worked out that having driven to knutsford for 10 years now at an average of 34K a year and averaged about 15K a year for the 9 years I drove before that I've covered a return trip to the moon :eek:

Also at todays prices and based on about 40mpg(less for teh 9 years, more for the last 10) the cost of fuel alone is over £60,000!


so how far have you 'travelled' in your lifetimes?

Originally Posted by Neil (Post 636931)

My car is getting close to travelling that distance on its own (well I suspect someone has always been driving it, maybe not always awake though). It is well over 191,000 now :(

Originally Posted by Less (Post 636962)

I used to do over 300 miles a day as a service engineer and hardly ever left Lancashire, for some reason if I was in the South of Manchester, (I don't call it Greater Manchester, it's still part of Lancashire to me), my next call would be say Colne and just as I arrived in Colne my next call would be less than two miles from the job I had just left in Manchester.

This is how the day would go on and the miles spent on the local motorways soon mounted up.
http://planetsmilies.net/machine-smiley-5040.gif

Originally Posted by entwisi

Its 232 thousand miles on average to the moon

Originally Posted by banjoman (Post 637052)

Is that all ? I`m stood on the Earth which is 93 million miles from the Sun. So thats about 550 million miles a year it takes to go round the sun, and I`m 36 so thats.....

21000 MILLION MILES....wish I got air miles

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 637027)

Sounds like your firm was very well organised Less:D