...you get an unexpected phone call meaning your partner has to rush out of the house just before you´re about to sit down to lunch and then go to work. At ten minutes before you´re due at work he still hasn´t reappeared with the car so you get the bike out of the shed and start racing down the hill. Half way down you meet your partner in the car - it transpires he had a puncture and had to change the tyre - in an admirable ten minutes as it turns out - so you exchange modes of transport and head down to work (while he trundles back uphill with the bike) getting there only five mintues late.
Upon going to get a new spare tyre you are informed that they no longer make that kind and so you need to buy two news ones so the back tyres are balanced, meaning the puncture cost you twice what it normally would have.
Going back into work a distraught boss meets you with the news that the new teacher she had employed to teach the 4-8 year olds (the most demanding and tiring classes for us) and who had been doing a good job, has suddenly announced that she´s leaving for employment elsewhere that very same day and has left us in the lurch. Much changing of the already full-to-bursting timetable ensues (and name-calling of said teacher) and we are all given a couple of extra hours to accomodate the younger classes. I said it before and I´ll say it again, phew!
Guess who´s looking forward to a rest at the weekend?!
Upon going to get a new spare tyre you are informed that they no longer make that kind and so you need to buy two news ones so the back tyres are balanced, meaning the puncture cost you twice what it normally would have.
Going back into work a distraught boss meets you with the news that the new teacher she had employed to teach the 4-8 year olds (the most demanding and tiring classes for us) and who had been doing a good job, has suddenly announced that she´s leaving for employment elsewhere that very same day and has left us in the lurch. Much changing of the already full-to-bursting timetable ensues (and name-calling of said teacher) and we are all given a couple of extra hours to accomodate the younger classes. I said it before and I´ll say it again, phew!
Guess who´s looking forward to a rest at the weekend?!
7 comments:
Perhaps you should call the teacher that rude word the sailor used at the start of the race!
If you had to have two new tyres to balance the wheels at the back, did you also have to have a new spare tyre in case one of the new back wheels get a puncture?
If one of the front wheels gets a puncture, I assume you will have to buy another two tyres so they balance too. So with a spare, that means five new tyres!!
Why are four wheel drive cars so named? Don't all the wheels driver?
Lorenzo.
Hard lines!
Hard lines!!!? What sort of comment is that Tortoiseshell?
Oh man! That post had me saying PHEW!! (well written my dear!) And tyres. Gees they're expensive aren't they? I recently had to get new tyres for the Outback and cost us an arm and a leg!!! Hmm... (I'm typing this with my other hand...*heehee*)
Sit down, take a deep breath and have a cup of tea and it will all come out in the wash so my great great great great great great great Granfathers best friends sisters uncles next door neighbours best friends mothers brothers Dad.
Gosh you do live a hectic life.
PS Yes it was 42 you clever little munky
Oh dear Raelha, do you really think you'll get a rest?
Here's hoping the loss of other teacher turns out to be a Godsend, because it opens the space up for the person who is really meant to be there. But, ummmm, I won't hold my breath for you...
Lorenzo, the simple answer is no. In some vehicles the engine forces the two front wheels to turn, and the back wheels are free spinning - hence front-wheel-drive. Then some cars are rear-wheel-drive, with the front wheels free spinning. Or 4WD all four wheels are driven by the engines, and so all four are driving the car.
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