Why do cars let you down

when you really need them????????????

Right, driving DD to school this morning and my bloody car decided to have a heart attack, exactly half way between home and school (luckily it was raining) but there we are no mobile and no money arrggggh.
So we abandon the car and do the only thing we can do in this situation and walk home, no I know you're all thinking why didn't DD carry on to school if she was half way there, well I'll tell you, she'd no way of getting home safely if she did that as there is a stretch of road that's got a 50mph speed limit and no footpath - definately not the safest option - anyway we get home and she gets some money for bus fare (to and from school) and I ring my breakdown service and she asks "if I was with the car or at home" 'at home' says me "how long will it take you to get back to the car" '3/4 of an hour' "well go back to the car and wait for the breakdown truck" WHAT!!!! can he not pick me up and take me to the car? 'just a minute I'll check' so she puts me on hold and I get to listen to wait for it


RESCUE ME - this is what I'm hoping a knight in shining armour will do, or failing that a breakdown recovery truck, so she says the breakdown guy will pick me up at home but he'll be about an hour, so while I'm waiting I start thinking (as you do) should I ring DH at work to pick DD up from school later or not? We'll before I have chance to ring the breakdown guy arrives (30mins) so I wouldn't have had chance to get back to the car anyway, and when we get to the car the bloody thing started first time adopts best Victor Meldrew voice I DON'T BELIEVE IT
so there's me looking a right numpty nothing wrong with he car but breakdown guy very kindly follows me home and gives the engine the once over just to check and no gives it a clean bill of health and when he gives me the form to sign that he's done the job - the description of job is COWS - me thinks he writes STUPID above that although he denied it apparently it stands for Cut Out Won't Start - oh yeah......

Just hope the ruddy thing starts later when I go to work...

Enough for now off to see if its recovered enough to get me to the supermarket..

Laters..............