Sara Cox had the pub quiz anecdote of the week on this episode of Teen Commandments: a family day at Newmarket races turned into such a loud bust-up between Sara, her sister Yvonne and their mum Jackie on a footbridge that a passing cyclist got so distracted watching them argue she crashed straight into a lamppost. The row, Sara explained, was over what time to leave the course – she wanted quality time back at the hotel, Jackie wanted to stay to the very last race. "They were laughing about it on a footbridge," Sara said, clearly still tickled by the chaos.
Elsewhere Sara relived the horror of her phone dying in a multi-storey car park after dropping Clare at the station, leaving her unable to pay for parking or get home. Cue a plea for help at a nearby Pret, where staff let her charge up, eat a sandwich and settle the bill later. Of the grim car park itself, Sara joked, "It's putting the pee in NCP."
The pair also dug up gloriously daft mum stories: Clare's mother spent decades convinced their local Chinese takeaway, the Kwong Heng, was called "the Wang King," while Sara's mum once turned an armed police manhunt on the family farm into a baking joke by insisting officers were wearing "flapjacks" instead of flak jackets. Listener stories were just as chaotic, including a daughter suspended for staging a fake canteen-brownie "protest" and a teen who broke into a neighbour's car purely to paint the inside of it.
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