firstly, when i came down this morning, Simba was hobbling about on three legs; so clearly the usual routine to get ready for work, etc, went out of the window as he had to go to the vet. I thought he'd broken something..... got there well before they opened, having dropped partner off to collect her car from where she'd left it for her london trip, and made it work for 10.
then in the afternoon had to go to our other office. i'd forgotten about the horrendous road works to get into redcar (well, they were a lot worse this week than last anyway) and whilst sitting in the traffic jam the car overheated.
so had to rearrange the client who was due any minute; didn't know how long i'd be sitting there.
walked along to garage on corner next to road works, who really unhelpfully said " we all finish at 5 and the lads are on their last jobs" ... essentially, f*** off; I shall ensure I tell everyone about that lack of service! the fact that my car was not the make of car that garage sells really should have been irrelevant, but I don't suppose it was.
by the time i walked back to the car it had cooled down enough to be nursed round to the office (switching it off when the traffic wasn't moving, i was still in the jam!). left it in the car park with the bonnet up; one of the lads had a look, we decided there was loads of coolant, so goodness knows what's going on.
then came home early. decided to come home before going to yard, on principle that i could use partner's car when she came back from vet with simba. She'd decided to go visit her mother (who's in hosptial; this morning she'd said she wasn't going to...)
Simba hasn't, apparently, broken anything, just realy severe bruising. but has to go back monday 4 pm. partner will have to do that, i won't be able to ...
so after all that, despite the nice weather this evening (cold but dry and no wind, and we are, apparently, expecting a full eclipse of the moon) molly just got her tea and i came away....
and brought a load of work home ot make up for this morning and to get it done.... forecast to rain sunday. but was due to go to see queenie this weekend, now car has to go to garage in the morning if they'll look at it...duh.
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2 comments:
Why is it that when one thing goes wrong it starts a chain of wrong?
Poor little Simba was the most important worry so I am glad he is not seriously hurt. Perhaps he learned a painful lesson about climbing too high? Or something else he shouldn't have been doing???
Garage guys with an attitude are the worst. They know you need them, so they act all arrogant about service. Bet your money would have been as good as their other customers.
You might have a bad thermostat, which is a really easy and not too costly fix. Hope it's something simple like that. Car trouble is never easy to deal with.
Once the rain cleared here the day was lovely and warm. Of course it's too wet to ride since we probably had close to 3 inches of rain. The soggy is now soggier--if that is possible.
Hope tomorrow is better. At least you got some extra exercise with the walking. It's not as much fun as a good ride, though.
no, walking next to a traffic jam is really not, but it was a nice day ....
my previous job i had to walk 15 minutes to the office and back again at night; i think my body is now showing that amount of reduction in exercise over the last 3 years...
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