car breakdowns
Ok, now I'm steaming. Around four maybe five weeks ago we traded in our Ford Mondeo for a Zaphira-now that might not be the right spelling I know?
It lasted a week before it started kangaroo hopping on the road up to the Midlands (Mark was camping Easter weekend). Lucky for him he got cold feet (before the rest of the camp did:-)) and turned back home.
The car dealer we bought it off, leant him a little Ford Focus as a courtesy car.
Mark phoned about 545 tonight to say the Focus has conked out and won't go. He's phned the AA, they know he's diabetic and have said they're on the way, and gave him an ETA.
He phoned them again 20 mins after that ETA to ask where they are and finally a local chap turns up to have a look and he can't fix it! So Mark (who luckily had two cereal bars with him) is still stuck on the side of the A14 downwind of a truck stop, waiting for a tow truck to pick him and the courtesy car up so he can get home and cook some tea>
And tomorrow morning he either can phone the car dealer and ask for a second courtesy car or charge up the motorbike battery overnight... and its cutoff week I think which means loadsa paperwork
It lasted a week before it started kangaroo hopping on the road up to the Midlands (Mark was camping Easter weekend). Lucky for him he got cold feet (before the rest of the camp did:-)) and turned back home.
The car dealer we bought it off, leant him a little Ford Focus as a courtesy car.
Mark phoned about 545 tonight to say the Focus has conked out and won't go. He's phned the AA, they know he's diabetic and have said they're on the way, and gave him an ETA.
He phoned them again 20 mins after that ETA to ask where they are and finally a local chap turns up to have a look and he can't fix it! So Mark (who luckily had two cereal bars with him) is still stuck on the side of the A14 downwind of a truck stop, waiting for a tow truck to pick him and the courtesy car up so he can get home and cook some tea>
And tomorrow morning he either can phone the car dealer and ask for a second courtesy car or charge up the motorbike battery overnight... and its cutoff week I think which means loadsa paperwork