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Tuesday 22nd September 2020

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My son has started shouting “Don’t look at me” every time he is doing a poo on the potty. I love it. Shame is kicking in, in this otherwise shameless individual. But it’s also very funny to have a 2 year old telling you not to look at him. And it’s also funny that he is pooing. “Don’t look at me!” Awesome.

I have been trying to sort my car tyres out for quite some time now. I took the car to KwikFit a good few weeks ago - they told me I needed 3 tyres changed, but they couldn’t do it as there was no wheel lock, so I took the car to VW who changed the wheel lock, but didn’t have the right tyres in stock, but said only two needed changing. I asked them to double check cos I’d been told three were bad, but they seemed sure and I thought that maybe the Kwikfit guys had been trying to pull one over on me. VW didn’t havre the right tyres in stock anyway, but no one seemed to, so a couple of days later I went back to VW who changed my tyres and I thought and dreamed that my mild tyre inconvenience was over.
But on Sunday my tyre warning went off again and it was the bloody back tyre that VW said was fine. I had impugned the reputation of the Kwikfit men, even though all adverts had informed me that they were the guys to trust. It was the VW garage who couldn’t spot a defective tyre if I paid them. And I did pay them.
So today I took the car into a different Kwikfit (partly as it was more convenient, but mainly because I knew they’d be able to tell that I had betrayed them in my heart) after having gone in yesterday to get them to order in a tyre. And after a couple of hours of investigation and finding nothing wrong, they discovered a pin prick hole (and a tiny nail) in the tyre. It had to be replaced. But I was glad about it. Because the mystery was solved and my tyres were now (hopefully) going to stop fucking deflating.
The adverts and partially lied as I was waiting for a good three hours, so you can get kwicker than a kwikfit fitter. BUT I liked the guy who was dealing with my car enormously. He was quite laid back and had some funny stories about electric cars, but also had gone above and beyond to really try and locate the problem, even when it seemed there was none.
I didn’t mind as the garage was near my gym so I went to kill the time there. But in the end I decided that the walk to the gym (on top of the dog walk I’d done) was enough exercise, so just sat in the cafe and had a sandwich. Which is the best thing you can do at the gym, especially with Covid on the rise.

It was a day when the ept came to my rescue, as a handyman came over and fixed all the broken door handles and taps in our house and made a precarious wardrobe door safe (again stuff I could never do). And I’ve finally buckled and given up on my laptop with the dodgy keyboard and got a new one and my life is thus infinitely better. It was worth the economic hit. Even if I had to spend the rest of my day getting all my apps and software up to date. 
But at the end of the day I had a laptop that typed the letters I wanted it to type on the first time of asking, I had door handles that worked and I had a car that I didn’t have to fear skidding off the road for no reason.
I’d achieved nothing else with my time, but things were markedly better for me sunset than they had been at sunrise. And pretty much none of it was down to me.  When I was a teenager and uninterested in learning DIY my dad asked me what I’d do when I was an adult and things went wrong in my home. I said that I’d just pay someone to do those jobs for me. My dad scoffed at this suggestion. But for once, I was correct. That’s exactly how it panned out. Me 1 Dad 0 Handymen and tyre fitters ££££


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