...Your clutch cable snaps whilst on a busy main road and you have to coast to the side of the road nearest to you, which just so happens to be a fast lane, when you are in thin clothes and the temperature outside is akin to that of the Arctic...
Then when you phone your breakdown service you get the extremely polite lady informing you that "Our offices are currently closed, please call back later"... thank you for informing me so charmingly however that does not resolve my problem.
"Please redial 08000285904 if it is an emergency". OK great! I thought, I am indeed in the middle of an emergency, therefore I shall redial said number, hang on one moment, how on Earth do you dial a freephone number from a mobile phone? I looked around, stricken, for the familiar red phone box but alas there were none. I then had a stroke of genius when I remembered you just remove the first '0'. "Aha" I shrieked. I shall not be foiled by technology this time!
I finally got through to a delightful lady named Saleema but quickly realised I simply had no idea which road it was that I was blocking. Thankfully I could point out a few landmarks and within an hour (as promised) my hero in a big green tow truck came to rescue me and bundled me into his deliriously warm cabin. It was as if he'd done it before...
Two and a half hours after setting off I made it the 5 miles into work. Phew.
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