time for the tuesday post

ok today i'm going to go through a pet peeves and then a a few other things

pet peeve; rubber-necking...
now i understand that as a human we have an overwhelming urge to gawp at anything on the side of the road that may be vaguely interesting, especially if it's an accident, even moreso if there's a chance of seeing something that you don't want to see...
but as a van driver, it's got to be one of the most irritating things that is out there on the roads. example; today i was driving along minding my own business, while playing attention to the road obviously, when all of a sudden everything grinds to a halt...as we inch forward some flashing lights come into view, orange ones, not blue ones, so i know it's probably just a breakdown, which is was, but it took an additional 15 minutes to get past this
now i have no problem sitting in traffic for a legit reason, i'm paid by the hour...but to sit in traffic because the 100 cars that are infront of me want to gawp at a car that's gone into the back of another car...that bugs me
i run into rubbernecking at least once per motorway per day, but on the m25 it's more like an hourly thing, if not every 20 minutes

to continue with the flood theme...
it rained yesterday while i was working, some of the paper goods i was delivering got wet, but that was ok as long as the suits didn't get wet...which they didn't, well not the ones i was yet to deliver, the ones i'd been collecting and just throwing into the van (on the floor, they had to go there because ihad no hanging space for them...which was compounded by the volume that i was collecting compared to the number that i had to deliver)... it rained so much that my hotel room started to leak, not only from the ceiling, but also around the window...but this didn't start to happen until i was just about to sleep...typically!
add this to the fact that the power tripped out so i couldn't watch the tv...
i wasn't having the best of evenings!

while driving home i was reminded of the following song (the video is one someone made and posted on youtube) ok the story goes as follows
while driving i felt something hit my head, only something small though and as i looked down to the seat between my legs i spotted something, although i wasn't sure what it was i brushed it onto the floor. a few seconds later i happened to look out the window and noticed something small on my shoulder, when i had a proper glance at it i noticed what i thought to be a very still bee, this made me jump and it fell off, again dropping to the seat between my legs...only this time it roled a little further and ended up underneath me. needless to say this freaked me out a bit, i didn't really want a bee that close to my meat and two veg, especially while i was driving, but because i was driving i had to try and keep a cool head about me and not flap around incase it stung me and that while i was driving. not cool. as luck would have it i was coming up to a lay-by so i pulled in and stopped. before i eased myself up from the chair, i picked up something to squash it with, afterall a dead bee is easier to deal with than a live one. so i rose slowly from the seat not wanting to get the bee agitated or anything like that lest it sting me and still being confined in the dab of the van, i really didn't want an angry bee. and i was shocked by my findings...it wasn't a bee after all...well not a whole one anyway. i found a headless bee. a few minutes later i found the little unknown thing that had landed on my seat the first time, and it was the creature's head!
ive not idea how it got decapitated...but it was weird
and it led me to sing the following all day!


anyway i need to go to bed, i'm only on chapter 8 of the new potter book :(
laters peeps
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sleepy sunday stuff

ok i'm not being very good at the blogger thing at the moment
i'm not posting very often and i'm checking other people's blogs even less...
however i have had a quick trek through blogs today and doing the comments thing where i thought i had something to say

anyway that aside
life for me has been pretty good
very quiet weekend, nice and chilled...

friday the weather took a turn for the worse...but seeing as i was away overnight with work i didn't know about it. it took me over 5 hours to get back to the depot, a trip that normally take 3 hours. part of this was on the motorway, which was closed due to being underwater... part of it was because the village where the depot is and the pub where i work is had a river flowing down the high street...
i was supposed to have started work at 6 in the pub, i drove past it at half 7, i called the boss to say that i could get back if he needed me to, but it would be in the van because my car wouldn't get through the flood... and seeing as the pub carpark was underwater it was going to be a bit of a nightmare. he said not to worry about it because there was 3 inches of water in the kitchen and although the pub was open, it was really quiet because no-one could get there!
so i went out and had a few drinks instead...got in sometime around half 2 in the morning...it was good
spent all day yesterday chillling with films again, watched ghost rider (very cool), anchorman (funny) and xxx2 which i've still got to finish
i also played guitar hero again for about 2 hours... there's just something about the game that means you can't sit down and play it, you just have to be standing up
it's uber cool though
yeah, then i went out drinking again...although i wasn't as late home and i didn't drink as much last night either
but it was needed that i went out and managed to blow off a little steam

before you ask, i've still not got my hands on a copy of the new potter book...i've been waiting to let the stupid numbers of people queuing to buy the book die down a bit, which i know means that others of you out there will have read it, so please don't be spoiling it for me otherwise there will be an ass whooping heading your way!

take care peeps
Laters
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