Today, looking back, has been hilarious, but it didn’t feel that way during most of it.
First thing this morning Sophie called and said “I’m so sorry but we have to cancel. There’s a sickness bug on my ward and I’m going to have go back in to cover someone.” I was disappointed but of course I understand, so we’ll just have to have my birthday bash even later than planned. Philippa had already bought some stuff in for a buffet lunch so she said “Why don’t we pack it up as a picnic and go and explore in the car?”
So we did. We drove right out to the coast and then I realised the car was low on petrol (I usually fill it up at work on a Monday, and as we hadn’t planned a trip for today I thought I had enough in the tank. But I didn’t)
We found a garage with a car wash attached and I had the bright idea of taking the car through to save me cleaning it later… and the car wash broke down with us in it. The roller things that clean the side of the car were literally stopped on the doors, so we couldn’t get out, or drive forward. Philippa had to look up the garage on her smartphone and then call them and ask them to pop outside and save us! Being a Sunday, we had to wait for them to find an engineer to come out and fix it.
We decided to make the best of it, so we got the food out while we sat there and listened to a George Ezra CD. By the time they got us out it was nearly dark!
So my three conclusions from today are:
You just never know what it going to happen.
If life messes up your plans, you can just make some new ones.
There is nothing more romantic than a picnic in a car wash.
RC 25-1-15
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