Rerouted
166 ViewsBallywalter was cordoned off today for some reason. The coast road had a dirty big ‘Police, Road Closed’ sign on it and a blue and white police tape across the road at the end of Dunleaths estate. I wonder if it was something to do with the investigation into that girls murder last year. Had to head cross country towards Greyabbey and up the Tullykevin to get back on track. I was going to Bangor to deliver and collect. The tyre rack clanked down just before the diversion. I keep forgetting to tie it up before leaving… only remembering when miles away from home with no stringaling and forced to pull over every few miles for readjustment when it drops onto the road and clanks it’s rusty protests. The wise tell me that it only does this because there is no tyre in the rack. I point out that there is no tyre in the rack because the nice RAC man (who rescued me when the back wheel seized and burst the tyre) broke the bolt thingy that holds the rack up and claimed it was rusted through. Today I made it all the way to the six road ends before it dropped for the second time.
Arriving at my destination I moaned that my lateness was entirely due to a dodgey tyre rack to which my dear oul Da took scissors, cut string and went to tie it up. He came back in with his head covered in rust and an indentation of tarmacadam pattern on his skull where it had been leaning on the ground. Sure enough,, it didn’t drop once on the way back home… not even when I hit the humpies along the back roads at speed.
Now all I need is a spare wheel and a can of rust eater.
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