I realised I'd lost mine
two days before I was to move to France.
The people in Newport replaced it in two hours flat, I could have hugged them
( Gizmo.mp3 does not exist, Mon 11 Jul 2005, 23:08, archived)

could have had to

hugged bum
( Druid, Mon 11 Jul 2005, 23:09, archived)

surprisingly not
I was a bit miffed that I'd paid for six hours' car parking believing that it would take all day though.
( Gizmo.mp3 does not exist, Mon 11 Jul 2005, 23:11, archived)

I'd like to think
a lot of it is how nice you are to them.
( Druid, Mon 11 Jul 2005, 23:13, archived)

You'd be more miffed
with a £60 parking fee though.
( grindforcolumbine Terrorism is bloody rude., Mon 11 Jul 2005, 23:13, archived)

true
I rationalise it by telling myself that in the extra four hours, I would have spent more in the godawful shops of Newport than the couple of quid I wasted on the carpark...
( Gizmo.mp3 does not exist, Mon 11 Jul 2005, 23:18, archived)