So I should probably introduce myself a bit. I am Vicki and this is my blog 'A Random Assortment of Flavours' and here you'll read about little tidbits of my life. BUT, considering my life is not that incredibly interesting, I will also be sharing my views on the world and current issues. You might be thinking "oh dear, not another person who thinks they know everything about the world and can solve all it's problems," however I'm hoping to be a journalist so one day that might actually be my job! I'm kidding of course. So this blog is about me and my troubles as well as current affairs, random facts and info and a lot of opinions from me, which is why my blog is called 'A Random Assortment of Flavours'. Gettit?!
So to start off my new blog, I think I'll start talking about some recent events in my life. Last Friday I recieved probably the best present I have ever gotten from my parents, and that is... Daisy, my new car!
I am so pleased that I now have a car, it fills me with immense freedom, I no longer need to get my mum to take me out, I can just go myself. Yesterday, I went out and bought myself a frappacino from Starbucks, it was amazing to be able to just do that and I could just take myself!
However with this new found freedom comes a HUGE responsibility, you're thinking the usual right? Washing it, not crashing, not speeding, not scratching the car etc... No I'm talking about not getting lost! Let's just say my sense of direction is a bit off after the fiasco I had on Monday.
I had planned my journey perfectly, I live in Farnborough and I needed to get to Camberley to drop of a friends birthday present, I knew where she lived and I knew how to get there. I then needed to go back to Farnborough to pick up another friend from work and give her back the cake tins I'd been harbouring for 5 months. Sounds pretty simple right? WRONG! Don't get me wrong, I got to Camberley just fine but couldn't find my friends road. I hadn't realised that I had gone past it and got to the A30 in Camberley which was queued with traffic for about a mile, fun! So I joined the queue and looked down at my clock to see that I had to pick up my other friend from work in less than 10 minutes. So at this point I knew I was gonna be late but there was no way of getting out of this traffic queue. So I sat and waited for 20 minutes until finally I got to the front of the queue. The reason why there was traffic was apparent when I got to the end, the Meadows Roundabout, as there were roadworks going on and only one lane was open, and when my car decided to break down, I was blocking that one lane with a mile long queue of traffic behind me! Oh dear. I tried to keep calm and I called one of the men doing the roadworks over and told him I had broken down. He was a lovely man and kindly helped me move over to the outside lane. He told me I had flooded my engine (how did I do that?) and needed to let the car rest for a minute, he then stopped the traffic going past so that I could get out. I shouted thank you back at him from out of my window, I was so pleased!
Of course my troubles did not stop there.
I drove up to Sainsbury's in Watchmoor Park, I needed to park up and calm myself down. I rang my friend and told her I was going to be late picking her up from work, she kindly said she was willing to wait for me. I then got on the map on my phone and found a way to my other friends house to drop off this present. So I found my way there and went down the 2nd exit at a roundabout which lead to her road which happened to blocked off (just my luck)! So I texted her to come to the end of her road and turn left, where I was parked up. So I managed to get one task finished that day!
After leaving her I knew I needed to go back past Sainsbury's and go up to the roundabout that lead to the motorway to get back to Farnborough. There was a bit of a problem though, I didn't know what exit to take and there was no way I was going on the motorway until I do my PassPlus. So I got to the roundabout and with a choice of 2 exits, I took the wrong one and ended up on a slip road to the motorway. I panicked but knew there would be no way of going back, so I continued. I got to the motorway and just got on it! I was so pleased and proud of myself, I did it safely and managed to not to kill anyone. Unfortunateley, the problem with going this way is that I was heading to Windsor and Ascot, and not back to Farnborough. So I managed to get on the motorway safely, I just got on it the wrong way! So I got off at the next junction and suddenly saw a sign saying 'Welcome to Bagshot'.
Now, those of you who know the area will know that Bagshot is only a 15 minute drive from Farnborough and it's not that far away. But as soon as I arrived there, on my own, not knowing the way back, Bagshot suddenly felt like a foreign country hundreds of miles away!
So I parked up in a car park next to a garden centre and it happened... I knew it was coming... I'd been holding it back for the past 2 hours... there was no way of stopping it... I burst into tears! Hey, it's not my fault I was in shock, it had been a very, VERY bad day! So I rang my mum and as she heard the despair in my voice, she immediatly thought I had been in a car accident only to find out I had got lost in Bagshot. Next I texted my friend and had to break the news, an hour after she had finished work, there was no way I would be able to pick her up, I felt awful but I was so in shock that I just wanted to get home, I would not trust myself going out again, at least until I'd calmed down. Luckily for me my mum was kind enough to come out and get me, I followed her car home and arrived at my house at ten minutes past 6 in the evening, that was a whole 3 hours after I had left the house that afternoon!
So to sum up what was a longer story than I had intended, always make sure you know where you are going before you leave for a journey and plan detours in case of things like traffic queues and roadworks because you never know what is going to happen out on the roads. OR get a SatNav!
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