17/06/2010

Gorgeous day, pity most had to be spent hanging around the Horseshoe in Heathrow. Turned up at the first drop and told by the clerk that one of the waybills is not for them. It kind of is as their main office in the horseshoe deals with it. Great, take of most of the stuff and check that it all matches and then off we go to the 'other' office. Something is seriously wrong with that place, booked in at 11:20 and finally got onto the bay at 13:40. This has to be an absolute waste of time, didn't even bring a newspaper with me, all I could do was to watch the numbers change and all the other lorries going past. To top it all people who have no comprehension how much room we need when turning and reversing keep parking in the most awkward places and then looking at you with a blank stare as you try and squeeze past them without doing any damage to their cars. Sometimes I wish that someone would just plough over a car that was parked in the wrong place, then surely the other owners might take notice. Bit of excitement at the end, a Polish lorry was trying to reverse up to the centre to park up and something went wrong, he was blocking the complete road and the driver was sitting in the cab scratching his head. I managed to escape before all mayhem ensured.

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