My friend Laura just passed her driving lesson and wanted to take me out for a drive to do some shopping and grab a latte, you know, typical girly stuff. That was all good and we had a great time, did everything we set out to do, walked back to the carpark, got in the car, laura turned the key and.... SNAP The plastic fell off of the key!! We couldn't start the car because we couldn't turn just the metal part of the key enough to start it! So what did you do Jess, I here you asking... Well I did what any self respecting girl with limited car knowledge would do, I called Ian...who was at work. So I then had to move to plan B and went downstairs to see if I could find anyone that worked there to help us. So I finally find this 20 something bleached blonde wannabe mechanic with a shinny name badge and explained the situation. To this he replied..."yeah...sorry, there's nothing we can do" "Can you at least come up and look at it and see if you can do anything?" "Yeah...no, I can't really do that" "Ok...well are we going to get charged for staying here longer, I mean it's not like we can move at all?" "Yeah...we're still gonna have to charge you...sorry" So a somewhat frustrated Jess went back to the car and had to think of a plan C, Laura's brother had the spare key and he was at work 15 miles away so Laura called her Dad but we didn't know the name of the multistory carpark and he had no clue we where we were. At the end of that conversation we heard the simutanious bleep indicating that both our phones we out of battery... so we franticly found out the name of the carpark and called her Dad bak with literally enough batter life to say "Greenview Carpark level 4" before the battery died, followed by sitting in the car for an hour not knowing if anyone was going to come for us watching people get into their cars start them up and drive away... Her Dad finally came with the key thankfully, but just another example that nothing can just be simple!!! But hey, thats what makes it an adventure, right? |