That’s as Spring-like as it’s got so far…

You know those meetings, the meetings where TIME becomes irrelevant. In fact everything seems irrelevant. Everything goes into slow motion. You do that neat shark trick, where they switch off half the brain but still manage to swim. I had switched off more than half my brain and was still able to hold a pen, randomly nod and prevent gravity pulling me off my chair. The words just drifted by. Then like a half sleeping shark smelling blood in the water, I was jolted awake.

Did he just say ‘you need a HUG’.

Panic setting in, this was the oddest looking kind soul, this was a bad tempered, grumpy, ex rugby player who looked like the only thing he had tackled in 20 years, was copious amounts of FAST FOOD. In his own words – a man who looks like a garden shed.

Two emergency escape options open to me, sprint through the fire door (but that went way too close the the garden shed) or dive through the window.

But I stayed put and quietly whispered ‘yes I probably do, the last one was probably 7 years ago’.

This produced a puzzled look from my colleague.

‘Are you saying the van is 7 years old, I thought the van was that older. Well anyway I know a garage which could probably fit a replacement Wheel HUB way cheaper than the main garage,’

HUB not HUG.

Good job I didn’t crash through the window.

Really Good job I didn’t act on impulse and take him up on his initial HUG offer.😂😂😂

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  12. I wish I could give you a big hug, if you want one, Gary. You and Hawklad have been through a lot. And yet, you still have such a great sense of humour about life. Must be the shark brain!

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