Ben’s Musings

Today was a wierd day. I currently have a cold, so I was awake from 2.30am to 6am this morning stressing out because we had planned to go down to Wednesbury to see my Grandparents today. I really wanted to see them, but had to face the idea that I might be too ill to drive down.

We eventually got up after a lie in at 10am aiming to leave Manchester at 11am. So off we went to get to Minty (our car-share car) only to find that the battery was dead and it wouldn’t start. The battery had died on a couple of the other folks in the car-share recently and they had jump started it back to life. So after some phoning round and further stressing out, Claire Trivino came to the rescue with her car - but it still wouldn’t start!

So we phoned Ben Gilchrist, who’s house Minty is left outside of, who called the car breakdown company which Minty is with, and came to let us into his house to get warm - we had been in below freezing shade for a good couple of hours by now. The mechanic turned up and got Minty working but suggested getting a free battery test at ATS in Rusholme.

After phoning my grandparents to let them know we couldn’t come to see them, we went to the ATS garage and got the test which showed that it definately needed replacing, so we got it replaced and wondered what to do with the rest of the afternoon.

As I left the garage in a stressed state, I drove through a pedestrian crossing on red lights startling a mother pushing a pram, but missing her by some way. I immediately realised what an utterly stupid thing I had just done and when we got home, before heading out to lunch, I felt so guilty and gutted at my foolishness. So I phoned the local police to confess.

The lady I chatted to seemed quite confused and had to put me on hold to find out what to do! She eventually returned and told me that I was very lucky becuase they had no other reports of the incident and until they do, they wouldn’t take it any further. I asked why since I was confessing as a witness so she explained that they have many people trying to get attention from the police by admitting to crimes they hadn’t committed. I felt like vehemently defending myself from being such a person but i thought I would seem more suspicious if I did so!

After my confession, we went down to West Didsbury to The Deli On Burton Road for lunch, then went to the cinema for some escapism. We decided to watch Pan’s Labyrinth, which I thought was going to be a fantasy adventure, but turned out to be quite bloody and depressing, whih was not what we were looking for.

On our way home we got some food from the Co-op shop in Didsbury Village hoping to use our new Co-operative membership cards and get some points on it only top find out that this shop was not the right Co-op shop - that there are 3 types owned by different people, and only one lets you get points. We thought it was really daft and argued a bit to make our point, then left feeling even more disappointed with our day.

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