Day from Hell

You may notice that the URL of this post is '/2008/day-from-hell'..... this means that I can have other sucky days, but not until next year.

The plan

- Wake up at 0600 - get ready and finish packing and leave the house by 0700-0730.

- Arrive at customer site in Bracknell before 0900h

- spend day with customer

- nice night in hotel in bracknell

- another nice day with customer

- back home

- more customer stuff later in the week.

Easy. Non?

Life

- Wake up at 0700h (not that bad)

- leave house at about 0800h

- have car shudder to a halt on the motorway (M23 - northbound, just before the M25)

- Get nice chap from Just Mechanics to come and rescue me in his tow-truck

- Back to the office by 1000h

- spend day working remote for the customer

- attempt to book hire car from Garage - not possible due to insurance madness.

- contact several hire-car places which could do me a people-carrier, or get me anything I liked, but not now and not anywhere near Crawley.

- travel to Gatwick Airport and get hire car from there.

- Drive to customer in Bracknell - arriving at 1730h

Oh and my shoelace broke.

The day finally ended at about midnight and I was tucked-up in my squishy hotel bed by one.