i really think i've lost the plot
so i'm just getting home last night, feeling like shit, when my best friend calls me in hysterics about her love life. she lives about 90 mins away so i got in the car and legged it over there.

as i parked up, my car (which is an automatic) didn't want to go into reverse. i looked down and there was a 5p coin stuck in the automatic gear lever. how the fuck had that happened? i turned the engine off, poked at it for a bit, managed to ram it into park, and then it stuck. no amount of gentle tugging, pleading or tears would move it out of park.

so in and amongst consoling my by now sodden and drunken friend, i had to call the AA. who told me my membership had expired about 30 days ago. the time limit for renewal? 28 days.

fucking fucking hell. i had to pay a new membership fee over the phone, which was well over £100. i was also panicking about being towed to "within 50 miles of home". i was more than 50 miles away. what would happen? would they dump me on the m40 at 3am??

when the AA man came out, the first thing he did... was to put his foot on the brake... meaning that the gearstick slid smoothly out of park. i had forgotten that i needed to put my foot on the brake to make the gearstick move. what a total cock. how do you forget that? it's like forgetting to breathe.

then the "very very nice man" used a pair of tweezers to pull out the coin. the whole thing took less than 30 seconds. and it cost me £121.

if i'm like this at 29, wtf will i be like by the time i'm 79??


EDIT: A PRIZE FOR THE FIRST B3TAN TO GUESS THE IDENTITY OF THE MEAN SNEAKY SEXIST B3TAN WHO SENT ME THE FOLLOWING RUDITY: "I'm actually most impressed that you were reverse parking in the first place"............... OUTRAGEOUS!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 12 Jul 2007, 10:43, Reply)