BAD DAY!

[ivoralljack]

Went to the dentist as I had a gum infection. Got a script for antibiotics then popped in Tesco to top up food shopping intending to call at my pharmacy before home. Never made it. The car came to a stop 100 yards from the store so I phoned the RAC at exactly 13:56. They turned up at about 18:30 and this only after I had phoned LadyGG who wiped the floor with them. They insisted they'd phoned me twice, which they hadn't. Lying bastards!! When I tried, I'd just got this auto message telling me about the phantom phone calls before the call ended automatically with no further options.

Decided to get a meal deal from Tesco garage where the car had been finally pushed by helpful passers-by. Being diabetic I need to eat, so I bought a triple breakfast butty, crisps and a costa coffee. Sat in the car to eat but found I couldn't because my teeth were too sore to chew the food. At home I've been necking painkillers to ease the pain of chewing but, naturally, not having a crystal ball, I hadn't taken them with me.

Meantime LadyGG had alerted her husband who was returning from a job in Builth Wells and he was good enough to detour to check I was okay. Whilst he was there the RAC finally decided to turn up. Nice of them!! Had to be towed home. Of course the pharmacy was closed by then so I can't start my meds until tomorrow. After all that I finally arrived home to find this little cat who's recently adopted me had pissed and shat over the kitchen floor!! Fair play, it had done its best to do it on the puppy pad I'd put down but there was still some mess to clean up. Obviously I'd have let the cat out had I known I'd be away that long.

Three lessons learned from all this: never buy another VW: never enrol with the RAC again and always put the cat outside whenever I leave home. Tomorrow the RAC are going to get a stinking phone call from me but I have to say that the guy who turned up was excellent.

 

[CroJack]

Murphy's First Law: Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

Murphy's Second Law: Nothing is as easy as it looks.

Murphy's Third Law: Everything takes longer than you think it will.

Murphy's Fourth Law: If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.

Corollary: If there is a worse time for something to go wrong, it will happen then.

Murphy's Fifth Law: If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

Murphy's Sixth Law: If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.

Murphy's Seventh Law: Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.

Murphy's Eighth Law: If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

Murphy's Ninth Law: Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.

Murphy's Tenth Law: Mother nature is a bitch.

Murphy's Eleventh Law: It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

Murphy's Twelfth Law: Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first.

Murphy's Thirteenth Law: Every solution breeds new problems.

Murphy's Fourteenth Law: If anything can't go wrong on its own, someone will make it go wrong.

If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will.

Knowing Murphy's Law won't help either.

Murphy's Law is recursive. Washing your car to make it rain doesn't work.

Murphy's Time-Action Quandary: You never know how soon is too late.

O'Toole's Commentary On Murphy's Law: Murphy was an optimist.

Proof of Murphy's Law: Murphy's Law cannot be proven, yet is correct, as when you try to prove Murphy's Law, you will see that the proof is incorrect. This is obviously due to Murphy's Law, therefore Murphy's Law is correct and proven.

Stewart's Corollary to Murphy's Law: Murphy's Law may be delayed or suspended for an indefinite period of time, provided that such delay or suspension will result in a greater catastrophe at a later date.

Zymurgy's Seventh Exception to Murphy's Laws: When it rains, it pours.

 

[ivoralljack]

Just received a text from the RAC asking: "HOW DID WE DO?" If you smell burning plastic shortly it'll be because my phone caught fire!

 

[ivoralljack]

Update: The RAC guy voiced his opinion that the engine was fucked. My friend/mechanic, Greg, who sold me the car, came to my house where the RAC had delivered it and took about 60 seconds to start it. Literally. But we got our wires crossed him being Polish. He speaks excellent English, as does his wife, as do his children who also speak Welsh because they attend the local Welsh school. Puts me to shame!

Trouble is, Greg speaks with a strong accent and I don't always know exactly what he's saying. He said that he'd do a plug in diagnostic check and I assumed it would be the following day. Didn't hear from him for 5 days because he's an extremely busy guy but eventually I went to his place about a 3 minute walk away to see what was going on as I urgently needed to use the car.

Seems I misunderstood him earlier because apparently he said the car was perfectly okay to drive until he did the diagnostics. So I'd been house-bound for 5 fcuking days without any need! Gonna have to give him elocution lessons - 'how now brown cow' and all that, so I know exactly what he's saying in future. Jokes aside, you couldn't meet a nicer guy, who always does his best for me. You can't ask more than that of anyone.