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I had to collect some computers from Bristol and I usually try to avoid travelling on a Friday due to POETS traffic. When I saw it was going to be Friday 13th too I was definitely going to avoid it (not superstitious, not a Templar Knight, but don't want to tempt fate 
).
So yesterday I arranged to go to Bristol to do the work. Thursday. March 12th. All will be fine
I had to get up an hour earlier than normal, so I was still asleep when I made my morning visit to the loo. I sat down then reached behind to get something off the cistern and accidently pulled the spider plant down off the windowsill. So me, the toilet and the floor were then covered in soil and the plant was resting on my back in such a position that if I moved the whole thing would end up down the bog. hmmmm, anyway being quite flexible I managed to extricate myself without making things worse. Hubby thought it was hilarious and I promptly forgot about the whole thing, including the mess and went on my merry way to Bristol. (bless him he'd tidied it all up by the time I got home).
I had checked the traffic before leaving, and there was a breakdown in the roadworks where the A34 joins the M4, so I thought I would drive through Newbury, get on the A4 and join the M4 further down. Fine, nice road, hardly any traffic. But I left the A4 too early and ended up back on the A34 a mile from the bit I wanted avoid.
ho hum.
No worries, I made it to Bristol, crawled down the M32 and parked in the multistorey. Now the office I was going to doesn't have a loading bay and has double yellows outside so I had to pack up and transport 3 computers and heavy UPS's and peripherals from this building, all the way to floor 5 of the car park. What a palaver. Took 3 hours
I dropped off the customer at his new building with one of the computers then drove to Avonmouth to get the last computer. Just as I parked up my boss rang and said the project owner (a different company) had found a fault with their new system and wanted us to leave the old system in place for another month. So yeah, bad timing, but I had to then take the system I'd just removed all the way back to Bristol and re-install it.
And, if I'd gone with my original plan and stuck with the Friday, I would have found out about the change of plans before I'd taken it all out *cry*
so the moral of the story is, fate will bite your arse no matter what you do!
).So yesterday I arranged to go to Bristol to do the work. Thursday. March 12th. All will be fine
I had to get up an hour earlier than normal, so I was still asleep when I made my morning visit to the loo. I sat down then reached behind to get something off the cistern and accidently pulled the spider plant down off the windowsill. So me, the toilet and the floor were then covered in soil and the plant was resting on my back in such a position that if I moved the whole thing would end up down the bog. hmmmm, anyway being quite flexible I managed to extricate myself without making things worse. Hubby thought it was hilarious and I promptly forgot about the whole thing, including the mess and went on my merry way to Bristol. (bless him he'd tidied it all up by the time I got home).
I had checked the traffic before leaving, and there was a breakdown in the roadworks where the A34 joins the M4, so I thought I would drive through Newbury, get on the A4 and join the M4 further down. Fine, nice road, hardly any traffic. But I left the A4 too early and ended up back on the A34 a mile from the bit I wanted avoid.
ho hum.
No worries, I made it to Bristol, crawled down the M32 and parked in the multistorey. Now the office I was going to doesn't have a loading bay and has double yellows outside so I had to pack up and transport 3 computers and heavy UPS's and peripherals from this building, all the way to floor 5 of the car park. What a palaver. Took 3 hours
I dropped off the customer at his new building with one of the computers then drove to Avonmouth to get the last computer. Just as I parked up my boss rang and said the project owner (a different company) had found a fault with their new system and wanted us to leave the old system in place for another month. So yeah, bad timing, but I had to then take the system I'd just removed all the way back to Bristol and re-install it.
And, if I'd gone with my original plan and stuck with the Friday, I would have found out about the change of plans before I'd taken it all out *cry*
so the moral of the story is, fate will bite your arse no matter what you do!
