kaberett | today has been A Day

we were supposed to pick up a van at 9am
when we got to the van hire place at 9.30, there was A Singular Van... that we weren't allowed to have... because it needed its brakes bled and they'd lost their engineer
that's okay, they said, there's another one due back in at 11.30, we were told it might even get back in a bit sooner than that, we'll give you a ring when it's ready, terribly sorry, we'll do you a partial refund
so off we trundled to poke at Sainsbury's and B&Q and such just round the corner
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the van was not, it transpires, going to be available to collect by around noon
the van was, in point of fact, very much in Cornwall
...
at about this point we went "fuckfuckfuck", went back home, and I passed the fuck out for an hour or so while Adam panicked, because this was More Excitement Than I'd Budgeted Energy For
... BUT THERE'S A HAPPY ENDING, to wit, they found their mislaid engineer!
... at around noon
... the van still didn't have, you know, Enough Oil, or Working Indicator Repeaters, or Screenwash, or A Side Door Sensor That Works, but it turns out you can dial the pop music up high enough to drown out the MY DOOR IS OPEN panic-beeps until they succumb to learned helplessness
so via Some Adventures we in fact ended up In Approximately Brixton, dismantling & getting into the van: A Rather Nice Sofabed, A Small Wardrobe, A Desk, A Chair, and Bonus Bookcase
we then meandered very slowly home, via me ducking into lab for a whole 10 minutes (I... should have stayed in very slightly later on Tuesday at the point at which I was all "shrug.emoji whatever I cannot possibly bring myself to care about any more of this")
and also picking up a cheap sun lounger I found on eBay from more-or-less around the corner (it folds, it can live in the greenhouse, it is something for me to crash on when I need A Break at the allotment)
and dinner at one of the Turkish places in town because we wanted (1) hot-weather food (2) a pile of salad (3) a lot of hydration (4) To Not Have To Cook
and now we are h o m e and I will need to Reorganise the van contents tomorrow because my stacking was Non Optimal, but right now we are going the heck to sleep
and then our first job tomorrow morning is to pick up some packing boxes kindly volunteered by a freecycle human in response to a wanted ad
the internet is pretty great
I'm so glad we're not moving house, we're just helping someone else move
... sleep now