But I must be maturing somewhat as I get old(er).

Couple of years back, I was woken by an alarm going off over the road from my house – I did what most other people would do, threw on some clothes and stormed over there and beat the car to within an inch of it’s life (sorted the alarm out though – and got some cheers from neighbours 😉 )…

This morning at work, someone from ABB had parked their car opposite my office and gone into work. A few minutes later, the alarm started going off. I wandered over, took down the registration and phoned ABB to inform them of the faulty device (and all the time being nice and polite) – the woman on the end of the phone said: “I’m not being funny but…” – now THIS phrase is guaranteed to wind me up, you can positively bet your life they’re NOT going to be funny – “…we have over 200 employees onsite here.”
I stopped her at this point and said “Yes, but only 1 Vauxhall Corsa, Registration FL04 *** is parked in the road opposite my office rather than your HUGE car park, with it’s alarm going off.”

Anyway, the owner finally came out before one of the forklift drivers physically moved the car to ABB’s front gate and left it there on it’s roof.

And now I have contact details for HR and H&S at ABB (courtesy of Lisa) so I can address any parking complaints (they really DO have a huge car park and have no real need to park in the road – lazy bastards can’t be bothered to walk 100 yards or so) to the correct people 🙂 .

Oh, did I mention Spurs are through to the last 8 of the Champion’s League? 😀

All alone in the office…it’s gonna be one LONG day…