Monday 18 October 2010

The Curious Incident of the Jelly in the car-park

My friend Karla offered me a ride into town and back,more an 'in transit visit' than a serious shopping trip.We ended up at Lidls,obviously wearing our favourite balaclavas so no one would recognise us.
We bought a few bits and pieces then loaded the car and went to pull away,there was the most worrying clunking noise coming from one of the wheels, so we drove back into the car park and had a look and gave all the tyres/wheels a good kick,well Karla did,with my dodgy pins I would have been a heap on the ground had I attempted tyre abuse.  Nothing wrong,pulled away again,clump clump clump went the wheel.....................
There was a nice rowntree's strawberry jelly stuck to the rear tyre,the cause of an awful lot of noise followed by decidedly dodgy jokes and a lot of laughter.
On the subject of laughter,I have been looking round the interwebs trying to self diagnose,now you might think this isn't a good idea but truly when you are really worried there is nothing better than a self diagnosis of Tropical spastic paraparesis,even better I have never been to the 'tropics' in fact no one I know has been in yonks,or how about this  diagnosis Conversion disorder,you see really I am fed up so my brain is pretending my legs hurt to distract me.
Seriously,life does have a lighter side,the kids reckon they will just throw me in nursing home earlier than planned and as for the people I work for,it is starting to be embarrassing when they offer to carry the vacuum around for me or pick up things I drop to save me bending down,just how good can bosses be?

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Lol Can just imagine the use of Rowntrees Jelly by the cops, throwing them under the wheels of speeders in high speed chase... instead of spikes, but then they'd be accused of taking the soft option ;0)
Glad your employers are empathetic Karen just imagine what it would be like if they weren't.
Conversion Disorder Hmm interesting.

that_woman said...

We laugh now,but two women and a teenage girl were stuck in a car that was making terrible clunking noises,funnily enough it sort of wobbled from side to side too.