Stooo wrote:Trapper John wrote:Stooo wrote:I got back on the M5 this afternoon at around three thirty, got up to seventy and watched a stone plunge down on my windscreen. It's a star crack that has spread to the bottom of the glass.
It was pretty random.
That M5 is one fuck of a motorway it goes on forever and at the end there is fuck all.
Exeter isn't
that bad...
It is, I got stuck there at 4 in the morning after driving down from Hertfordshire overnight and had to take a 45 minute break. I had no sat nav and the battery on the phone had run out so I couldn't even use google maps and I had very little fuel left to get back to the motorway let alone Essex.
After my break, I tried to get out of the fucking place for over an hour and kept ending up back where I started mainly due to using a map book which took me to roads I couldn't go down.
I still shiver at the thought of the whole fucking pantomime, like eventually finding a garage that was open 24 hrs with just fumes in the tank, only to find it didn't take our 'Key Fuels' card, it was all a nightmare from start to finish. This is how bad it was, I somehow found myself in Okehampton, miles in the opposite direction of where I wanted to go, the only good thing was I found a garage open which took our card.
By the time I got back to my depot I was absolutely shattered and ended up going 50 minutes over the 15 hour maximum daily drive time all coz of that cunting town with no 24 hour garages.
Top it all off, there had been a bad accident which closed the QE2 bridge and it took me over 4 hours to get home on a journey normally taking 20 minutes. It was one of, if not the worst driving day of my entire life and I blame it all on fucking Exeter!