Last night following an awesome prayer meeting at Awesome Church (focussed on 2 Chronicles 7:14, and the 4th night of our 5 nights of prayer called for this week), Diane and I decided we really should get some groceries.

So we did.

Only problem was, when we returned and loaded up our car with the goods, she decided she didn’t want to go anywhere. The car that is, not Diane.

After a fun couple of hours of praying, waiting for roadside assistance, waiting for tow trucks, rescheduling tow trucks due to them being caught up at early morning accidents, walking home with our groceries (thankfully we live very close by, but we were a sight, let me tell you), and right at this moment – me sitting through a test evacuation alarm (oh my poor ears), she’s about to be towed.

If your vehicle has never had the pleasure of getting towed, and none of mine ever have, it appears there are few places less convenient for your car to decide ‘now is the time’ than when you have parked her in an underground carpark.

Apparently, ‘they’ have to arrange for an extraction prior to being towed. This sounds painful to me, but car seems none too phased by the whole ordeal.

Meanwhile, we don’t really know what’s wrong with her. The dude from roadside assist (who was sporting a lot of fiery tats, which might explain why it was so hot in here last night…) reckons that it could be a broken timing belt.

Surprisingly, I knew what this meant, though less surprisingly, I had no explanation for how it could have happened between when we parked the car and when we got back.

Either way, roadside assist dude was a little perplexed himself, and began organising the tow.

Can I just say, if you’re gonna get towed, a spot near the supermarket, great 3G signal, plenty of data on your phone plan, and near-fully charged iPhones make the hours of waiting around far more interesting.

Further adventure updates to come. Needless to say, this is not how I intended to spend my Friday, so I’m trying not to think about the work I’m meant to be doing right now…

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