Long cold evening out
24/03/17 19:49 Filed in: Work
Long Evening and Night - Over and Out
Well it's been a funny old week at work; and by funny I don't mean funny at all. Sometimes you just have to shrug, grin (or not) and bear it; days and weeks come and go. And some are better than others. Sometimes adversity looks great in the wing mirror. Ho hum. Maybe not but I'll just give you my bit of wisdom based on my van breaking down on Wednesday evening...
The van broke down due to a catastrophic failure of the coolant pipe. No coolant.. no drive it! (Error message read 'Hazard of Engine Failure' Eek!!! It happened at 6.15pm when I was on the A55 about 40 miles from home. I got home at 1am. Sheesh! ZZzzzzzzz
Wisdom to take on board for next time: keep on driving... just a little bit further. Or even go back to where you came but on no occasion EVER stop at a service station in a telephone blackspot (okay, I'm with 3Mobile so that may rule out a fair few service stations, but hey ho). And worse; no phone signal AND no wi-fi. Do not stop at a service station in the evening when it has a Little Chef... that closes at 3pm?!
Do always always keep a book with you. Keep a sleeping bag with you. A torch and a notebook. Gloves maybe.
Remember if you ain't got any cooling you can't run your engine - and so you won't get any warmth. When it's a starry night and 2C it's a bugger of a fault to get. I got out to walk to warm my feet. It warmed my feet but the rest of me got colder. Five and half hours in an unwarmable vehicle is not a cool place to be. Well it is. But you know.
It's also a bugger when the AA turn up 30 minutes later than they said they would be ('at the latest') and then tell you that they are due a 15 minute break!
Oh, there's more. So much more but my feet and fingers are still numb and I'm so so tired.
Over and out.
Well it's been a funny old week at work; and by funny I don't mean funny at all. Sometimes you just have to shrug, grin (or not) and bear it; days and weeks come and go. And some are better than others. Sometimes adversity looks great in the wing mirror. Ho hum. Maybe not but I'll just give you my bit of wisdom based on my van breaking down on Wednesday evening...
The van broke down due to a catastrophic failure of the coolant pipe. No coolant.. no drive it! (Error message read 'Hazard of Engine Failure' Eek!!! It happened at 6.15pm when I was on the A55 about 40 miles from home. I got home at 1am. Sheesh! ZZzzzzzzz
Wisdom to take on board for next time: keep on driving... just a little bit further. Or even go back to where you came but on no occasion EVER stop at a service station in a telephone blackspot (okay, I'm with 3Mobile so that may rule out a fair few service stations, but hey ho). And worse; no phone signal AND no wi-fi. Do not stop at a service station in the evening when it has a Little Chef... that closes at 3pm?!
Do always always keep a book with you. Keep a sleeping bag with you. A torch and a notebook. Gloves maybe.
Remember if you ain't got any cooling you can't run your engine - and so you won't get any warmth. When it's a starry night and 2C it's a bugger of a fault to get. I got out to walk to warm my feet. It warmed my feet but the rest of me got colder. Five and half hours in an unwarmable vehicle is not a cool place to be. Well it is. But you know.
It's also a bugger when the AA turn up 30 minutes later than they said they would be ('at the latest') and then tell you that they are due a 15 minute break!
Oh, there's more. So much more but my feet and fingers are still numb and I'm so so tired.
Over and out.
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