Evening, well here we are at the end of a day full of surprises. Is it not just great to live in the right here and right now? You never quite know what is round the corner. I woke up this morning and both my knees decided they would be a little reluctant to follow the brain signals I was sending. Ummm. Dont like them but apparently as I did not study medicine, I have to go and speak to them. So 2 hours later, come back home on my bike, with the 'you cannot run for the next 7 days' ringing in my ears. I would not mind but nowt to do with running and all to do with portaloo incident. Damn it!
I sat in my office at home today waiting for the car to be picked up and made pretty again, whilst juggling calls and emails and proposals and invoices, the usual. Suddenly I just sat still and then it came to me. What am I doing?. The sun is shining, I have been working since 5am it is now ten to two and I have not stopped, well other than the doc's. I just had a vague level of empathy with a battery chicken. The difference is the cage was of my own making and just needed to be shifted. Bike help me. 52 minutes and 14 miles later including some off road I was back, a little sweaty it must be said, but I was feeling alive again. Phew...
Short lived though when newbie car hire man turned up. O M G! Have you ever met anyone who asks you a question for the sake of it so that when they talk at you they feel like you might be in a dialogue. Oh No, this was monolgue town. I know where he lives, his girlfriend lives, I know what she does for a job and where, I know how long it takes both of them to get to work, where they are going on holiday, when they are going on holiday, how long they are going on holiday for, what cars he likes, what cars he loves and what cars he loathes and just to be sure I knew the latter he pointed them out as we drove back to the depot to sort the paperwork. AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHGH - I knew the paperwork was going to be hardcore but the surprise was the countdown he gave me til the card machine registered the amount. I had a running commentary of every box he was filling in and why. He then went through every box again as I was just about sign it. To sign it he withdrew his pen with such a flourish and hit the button on the top of it with such a big smile on his face I did at that point laugh, out loud and then stopped abruptly!
He had picked me up in the car I was to have, wow what a ride. He inspected the car from the outside and underneath... he was the last person driving it! I just stood and watched the world tick by ever so very slowly and painfully. 96 minutes that I cant get back...ok rant over but seriously there is helpful and then there is xxxxx who works at a rental agency in Bridgwater. I am sure someone is very proud of his achievements. I really needed to depart.
But before I do I want to thank my stalker. This stalker is of the awesome and immensely warm hearted, understanding and empathetic variety. She stalks me by text, email, her husbands email and by phone. It is great because I know that not only does she care about me and is checking to see how I am she also sends great care out to Izzy too.
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