Guest pelmetman Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 8-).......................Another puncture today :-S........... Coming back from deliveries this afternoon thinking I was going to have an early finish *-)..............travelling through Thetford Forest when the offside front starts thumping, realized what it was and managed to pull off onto a gravel side road, so I get the jack out and loosen the nuts, by application of 14 stone of blubber to the short wheel brace :$..............start winding the jack up and about 6 inches from the full reach it stops 8-)..........so I undo it, take it out .........and there in the middle of the spiral part is a seized lug stopping the full travel *-).......so having no tools I decide to ring the breakdown boys :D.........get my position of the sat nag............No phone signal >:-(............ So I start looking round for something to lift the jack the extra 6 inches, and I spy a block of concrete, but it was in the middle of a muddy puddle *-)........having no other option, and trying not stand in the mud in my nearly new sandals, I tried to move the concrete, but it wouldn't budge :'(...... Next idea (^)......I re tighten my nuts and drive the van over the block and line it up with my jacking point 8-).........Now I'm on all fours in the mud *-).......I get the jack on the block and wind it up to the jacking point by hand...............Then!!.... as the jack is 6" higher I cant get the sodding handle into the jack socket as its behind the van skirt *-)...............so I'm looking at pulling of the mudflap thinking I might be able to reach the jack from that angle.......when I spy the bottom half of a orange Transit pull alongside.......... YIPPEE!!! a breakdown wagon...........................................RAC!...............................I'm with the AA *-).......but nevertheless I explained my predicament, hoping that his phone might have a signal, but he took pity on me and helped me change the wheel B-)......................... Thought I'd better give him a tip for helping me out ;-).............................All I've got is a £20 note 8-)..............so whilst he's putting his gear away, I'm having an argument with my thrift gene :$.......But my gratitude over came my skinflint alter ego..............so I offered him the twenty :D He refused to take it 8-) 8-) The trouble is my paranoia is now working over time, as those of you that remember my wheel nut saga at Christmas happened on the A14 a few miles East of Bury St Edmunds, or my blow out on the A14 at Bury St Edmunds in Feburary...........and now this just North of the A14 8-) This small part of Suffolk is starting to resemble the Bermuda Triangle >:-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Momma Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 pelmetman - 2011-07-04 7:38 PM I re tighten my nuts and drive the van Not good for your prostrate problem :D Bet you felt a little 'deflated' after that and then £20 tip when a £5 used to be more generous, well I suppose that's 'Inflation' for you. Were you 'tired' after such an eventful day :D :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nowtelse2do Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 I think you should have taken him round the back of the van and told him you had a load of pouffes in the back, and that he could choose and have any one of them. He was a very nice man, in fact he was a very very nice man wasn't he? :D :D Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
art338 Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 sounds like a puddled job art Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
postnote Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 God works in mysterious ways! (lol) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pelmetman Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 postnote - 2011-07-05 10:04 AM God works in mysterious ways! (lol) Yeah *-)..............I think he's got the hump because I'm an atheist :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donna miller Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 postnote - 2011-07-05 10:04 AM God works in mysterious ways! (lol) Pity he doesn't work in the tyre industry, he'd make a fortune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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