They day has started in mixed fashion. The garage thinks that the fault on the car is probably a simple blockage which should be reasonably easy to fix, and inexpensive. Fingers crossed. I called a taxi (they have moved and it is now too far to walk) and this was a little more complex than usual.
Of course, in my day, when cars were simple and lights were fewer, this wouldn’t have been a problem at all, and if it had a tap from a hammer or a quick twist of a spanner would have put it all to rights. faults these days tend to be in parts we never actually had in the 1970s.
It’s the first taxi I’ve taken in nearly 12 months and the system has changed. You have to ride in the back now. For a man who is over six feet tall, overweight (to say the least) and has a bad leg, this is not easy, even in a generously proportioned vehicle. With one of the small Japanese cars that taxi firms seem to favour it was a cross between playing Twister and packing a holiday suitcase.
Eventually I got in and we set off. They have barriers now, rather like black cabs, but made out of flexible plastic and fixed with cable ties.
Five minutes later I remembered that I’d left my phone charging in the car.
Could I communicate through a mask and plastic barrier and then unravel myself to get the phone before doing it all again in reverse? No. I really couldn’t be bothered. I’m at home now. I’ve rung the garage from the land line to give them that number ( I really should have remembered the phone when I gave them my mobile number). Now I’m going to email Julia to tell her I don’t have my phone with me. It would be easier to ring, but I don’t know her number.
All the numbers are stored in my mobile these days. Oh, what a to-do. I can feel myself turning into that elderly parent who seems constantly bemused by modern life and is a worry to the children…
Definitely a case of more is less – the more technology the less simplicity. Speaking of which, why do I always have to fill in my details before I can comment on your posts?
I don’t know. I will look into it as it’s nothing I’ve set – I often don’t comment when a site asks me for details.
I still have my decades old metal file card box with names, addresses and phone numbers. It works when the power is out. 🙂
Yes, I know the problem with modern day cars quite well. They have been evolving to the point where old-timers can’t work on them so readily anymore, if at all. I would prefer a shuttlecraft, but we have not evolved that far long yet. 🙂
I keep thinking I need an address book again. Technology is OK, but, as you say, it needs power. As a child I took all my knowledge of “the future” from Gerry Anderson, but he never seemed to cover things like car maintenance. His 1999 is very different from ine.
Because they made me put on a hospital mask when i took Mrs T in today, I managed to leave my own hand sewn (by Mrs T) mask there. Small beer but still annoying.
Yes, very annoying. I have a selection my sister made, which is good as it means I normally have one in the car, one in my pocket, one on my desk – as mask for every occasion and very convenient for a man with no memory….
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I hope you your car is fixed and the mobile is back gone with you now.
I have the mobile back. I have the faulty car back. I have just finished writing about the car. Humph! Bloody modern cars!
Yes, complicated!
I solved the problem by eating cake. 🙂
Always a great solution 😊
It seemed to work. 🙂
How annoying to leave your phone behind. Hope the car repair is fast and inexpensive.
UNfortunately it turns out that it is going to be slow. The part is cheap but the labour will be lengthy…
Could be worse. 🙂
Well….you are modern because you’ve completely tethered yourself to tech…if you think about it that way