The most exciting
moment today was when I stood with my wife to give her moral support while the
man from the RAC recharged her car battery.
We discovered the
car wouldn’t start yesterday when I was about to get a lift to the station to
catch the train to Brighton. Even the manual override to the keyless ignition wouldn’t
work, which was ominous, if suggestive that the battery had died. I had to
leave my wife with it yesterday while I took the bus to the station;
I wanted to stay behind, but the people of
Brighton needed their entertainment.
Thankfully, the
problem didn’t take long to fix today, but it made me wish I knew more about simple
mechanics myself. What skills do I have that apply to the day-to-day? I
can juggle three balls and pronounce Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch,
but neither of these is much use in an emergency. The only other task I’m
adept at is opening jars, but why bother using me when you
could use an octopus?
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