One of "those" days!

Well I had this excellent, well thought out plan as to how today was going to work.

I was going to meet with the letting agents at 11am... head on over to the flat at noon, drop off a car load of stuff then head home chill out for a few hours then head back up with the lizards... drop them off... then leave early tomorrow morning with the cat so I could turn the lizards lights on then help her get settled before the luton turned up with all our stuff.

Now personally I congratulate myself on a thoroughly well thought out plan. So who would like to hear how my plan turned out?

Well we left on time and even arrived at the letting agents 15mins early. Perfect I thought. Then on our way over to the flat the front brakes started to make this horrible metalic grinding noise as if I was trying to cut through steel with a chainsaw. Pulled over, checked the front brake pads... hmm... I can't actually feel them... crap... ok off to a local garage... turns out the front driverside pad had worn down to the metal so the disc was just rubbing against metal! :yikes:

Leave the garage at 2pm, two hours behind schedule and £70 lighter (which annoys the hell out of me because if I could have gotten her home it would have been a 20 min job!). Over to the penthouse... absolutely amazing... love it to pieces & can't believe it's all ours! Head home and work out that instead of a couple of hours to have a break we've got about a 30 min window before we have to go back with the lizards. Pulling up to the flat and the SRS light comes on... crap, crap & more crap, well nevermind we'll just have to check out the seat pre-tensioners, cross our fingers it's that then be on our way... got up to the flat to find that in our haste this morning we'd forgotten to feed Sookie and empty her litter tray so we came home to a freaked out, starving cat that had peed on our mattress!!!

So sufficed to say we did not have time to drop the lizards off at the new place & I'm sitting here now next to a pile of cat pee wondering how it all went so wrong! :shake: :lol:

Well, that will teach you to make plans then won't it. :yesnod:

Can I just say that the following statement shows how much you have changed since your first ever MG related post.

"Leave the garage at 2pm, two hours behind schedule and £70 lighter (which annoys the hell out of me because if I could have gotten her home it would have been a 20 min job!)"

Rabbie Burns said it 'the best laid plans of mice and men gan aft aglae.'

Well something like that anyway.:whistle:

I think sometimes the more you plan the more things go wrong!
Better luck tomorrow is all I can say!:yesnod::grouphug:

CJJ;9997 wrote: Well, that will teach you to make plans then won't it. :yesnod:

Can I just say that the following statement shows how much you have changed since your first ever MG related post.

"Leave the garage at 2pm, two hours behind schedule and £70 lighter (which annoys the hell out of me because if I could have gotten her home it would have been a 20 min job!)"

Lol well it just bugged me that I was stuck in the middle of nowhere at this garage that had to wait 1/2 an hour to fit me in, then half an our for the pads to arrive then amazingly an HOUR to fit them!!! I was just pacing the waiting room muttering things like "could have gone to the local motor factor"... "getting towed home would have been quicker"... "give me a ramp and I'll do the bloody job myself"... etc. etc. etc. And then when the bloke had the nerve to tell me in this condescending voice that I had a "VERY serious problem because my engine management light was on" I just turned round and gave him a bloody earful about how a T4 diagnostics kit showed it was a stupid 02 sensor that didn't effect the running of the car and that what was actually a "serious" problem was a garage taking an hour to fit a couple of front brake pads! ...He didn't talk to me much after that. :whistle:

David Aiketgate;9998 wrote: Rabbie Burns said it 'the best laid plans of mice and men gan aft aglae.'

Well something like that anyway.:whistle:

I think sometimes the more you plan the more things go wrong!
Better luck tomorrow is all I can say!:yesnod::grouphug:

I'm just hoping I got all my bad luck out of the way today! :lol:

Hope it all goes well for you today mate.

Kara;9994 wrote: I'm sitting here now next to a pile of cat pee wondering how it all went so wrong!

If Sookie can pee into a pile...you may need to change her diet:yesnod:

Hope all goes well over the weekend m'dear:whistle:

And then when the bloke had the nerve to tell me in this condescending voice that I had a "VERY serious problem because my engine management light was on" I just turned round and gave him a bloody earful about how a T4 diagnostics kit showed it was a stupid 02 sensor that didn't effect the running of the car and that what was actually a "serious" problem was a garage taking an hour to fit a couple of front brake pads! ...He didn't talk to me much after that. :whistle:[/quote]

probably added £20 on the bill for that!

good luck for tomorrow

Kara;10005 wrote: And then when the bloke had the nerve to tell me in this condescending voice that I had a "VERY serious problem because my engine management light was on" I just turned round and gave him a bloody earful about how a T4 diagnostics kit showed it was a stupid 02 sensor that didn't effect the running of the car and that what was actually a "serious" problem was a garage taking an hour to fit a couple of front brake pads! ...He didn't talk to me much after that. :whistle:

lmao love it... ill go bad day for bad day with you at this rate: see forth coming post