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Another frustrating day of life admin. Having tried to get my car tyres changed last week, but finding there was no wheel nut lock undoer in the car, I took the car to the dealership to get that changed, get new tyres and have a service and MOT. As I drove to St Albans (like Joseph, the car was returning to where I had bought it, even though that was a bit further away) I thought. “At least after this everything will be sorted and I can move back to my knob problems”. My door knobs are all broken. My knob is fine.
I was in the garage for four hours because there didn’t seem much point in driving home in a replacement car(they’d told me it would take two hours) and then straight back again. I did some research for tonight’s RHLSTP and mainly spent a lot of time discussing on Twitter whether it was true that not all jokes were political. You’d be surprised to find out how many people think all jokes are political. Even puns and farts. They are wrong. All subjects can be politicised, but not everything is political. “What’s brown and taps at your window? A poo on stilts.” A woman opposite me tried to eat a biscuit but had forgotten she had a mask on. I looked away and pretended I hadn’t seen, but I was laughing inside. Political? The masks are arguably political, but the thing that made me laugh?
Oh fuck, let’s not get into it again.
It turned out the garage didn’t have the right tyres for my car (though they said only two needed replacing and were still technically OK to drive on - I pointed out that Kwikfit had said that three needed changing and there was a nail in the front one. They said not. Who was telling the truth? They also said they didn’t have the tyres in, but I could come back tomorrow, which I was not keen to do. This was a bit annoying given that I’d warned them I was coming in for new tyres. They also said I had no puncture kit (which makes me certain that this and the wheel nut lock key were never in this car) but that I needed one for the MOT. When I got home I found that they hadn’t put one in. The car is far from being ready.
I rang round other tyre places and none of them had the right tyres in stock. I suspect that Kwikfit guys last week were going to put on the wrong tyres. The proper ones are different due to this being an electric car. What a nightmare.
That’ll teach me for caring about the world.
I had other chores to do and by the time I was home I was tired and fractious. But luckily a chat with the lovely Michael Fenton Stevens calmed me down.
You can watch it here
Or wait for the podcast.
I might have a couple of weeks off from doing RHLSTPs as we have a few in hand and my week is being eaten up by podcast prep. It’s been a pretty hectic schedule during lockdown. And we all know Ally and Herring is the real show. Don’t forget to tune in on Thursday at 8pm.
RHLSTP with historian Bettany Hughes is now up
