I was on the way home and...

simonb · July 23rd, 2007, 03:41 AM

I was driving home from camping with a small trailer on the back. We got 40 miles down the road and the bloody offside trailer wheel blow out. So the is robber all over the road.

I smash my way in the the hard shoulder. I walk a 1/4 of a mile to the orange phone box to find, yes it does not work great.

The i phone the RAC to find out they think i don't have member ship. And will only take me 10 miles.

A mate comes and we spend 45 mins putting the trailer on there trailer.

Then after setting off there accident 10 miles down the road on the M4. So a 5 hour trip turned in to a ...... 13 hour trip.

Marc · July 23rd, 2007, 04:23 AM

Wow.. You were extremely unlucky yesterday! How exactly did the rubber from the weel get across the road? Did you drive over somthing?

simonb · July 23rd, 2007, 04:27 AM

i think so. And also are trip there on Friday was bad. The M5 was closed because of flooding

Lchad · July 23rd, 2007, 08:42 AM

hahahahah!! simonb that stinks!!! Sounds awful!

Voodoochilli · July 23rd, 2007, 09:02 AM

unlucky. I had a bad day yesterday too, my very expensive xbox 360 decided to have the "red rings of death" which is sort of like window's blue screen of death.

sannbe · July 25th, 2007, 12:31 AM

Hope you are not getting to wet, Simonb. I hear parts of the UK are turning into swimming pools. Hope you are not in one of those areas.

simonb · July 25th, 2007, 03:12 AM

Well i did have to set up a large tent in the rain at midnight

matelot · July 25th, 2007, 04:25 AM

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... So the is robber all over the road...

I know crime is on the increase, but these robbers are everywhere!

Glad you got it sorted. Another one of those days. :taz:

acrikey · July 25th, 2007, 06:29 AM

I was wondering how long until someone notice that typo.
Simon what a fun trip you had! Did you enjoy the camping though?

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Originally Posted by sannbe

Hope you are not getting to wet, Simonb. I hear parts of the UK are turning into swimming pools. Hope you are not in one of those areas.

Yes us boys down the south of the UK are having few issues with water, for those that have not seen what we are faced with go to: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/629/629/6911778.stm

pa007 · July 25th, 2007, 09:28 AM

Living in the north west does have something going for it. They haven't built houses on flood plains here.

Its been pretty grim this past month or so, and they still insist that it's summer. Idiots.

Pete.

moojoo · July 25th, 2007, 09:59 AM

Sounds like one of my normal days. Glad you made it through!

JacobHaug · July 26th, 2007, 03:25 AM

Ahhh, poor Mark...lol.

bigtester · August 3rd, 2007, 07:01 AM

The way things are going we will have to take care not to drive onto a sub-standard bridge in case it collapses. Or, with the recent floods, we might come around a corner and find ourselves up to the roof in a swollen river. By the way did anybody suffer downtime when Fasthosts went off during the flooding?