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Henry and the brakes
Yesterday, I was about to overtake a couple of lorries on the A14, when the one I was closest to pulled out right in front of me to overtake the other one. I so hate that. I braked rather sharply, as you might expect, only for a clunky-something’s-snapping thing to happen. I pulled into the gap left by the inconsiderate lorry, and stopped in the next layby, which had a handy SOS phone box. Less handy were the cockroaches living inside it, and even less handy were the lorries that kept going past drowning out everything the man on the other end of the phone line said.
Nevertheless, the AA was informed of my whereabouts, and about an hour later, I was attended to by a bloke in a non-AA van (I’d been phoned and told to expect him), who was very nice but said he couldn’t do anything, and asked for a recovery vehicle to be sent out. I had to wait a further forever for him, but eventually he came. He transported me and Henry to the garage, where they discovered they didn’t have the parts in, but they ordered them for delivery first thing in the morning, then they gave me a lift home, which I was very glad about because it’s tiring waiting about on a layby with nowhere to sit (you’re not allowed to sit inside your car) in the sun.
The highways people were very good - they kept phoning every so often to check on progress and to make sure everything was ok.
This entry was posted on Thursday 30th August, 2007 ~ 9.21am BST and is filed under Traffic, Travel and Transport and is tagged with A14, AA, brakes, breakdowns, garage, Henry. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
