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I then found out that the wedding booked for this afternoon was actually a full-blown Nuptial Mass.
And then I was told that there was a Baptism between the wedding and Benediction.
And Sunday Mass after the wedding... I helped set up for the Baptism and prepared what I could for the Nuptial Mass, and then decamped... leaving the rest for the Deacon.
(I have no idea where Fr. Tim gets all his energy. I wish he'd bottle the stuff - I need some!)
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...and then realised that "recently" was somewhere in the region of three or four months and all I had done then was a check on the tyre pressure. It turned out that I needed all four tyres changed: three had degrading around the rim, and the fourth was balding on the inside. I thought I'd get the wheel alignment done while I was at it...
I'd hoped it could be done pretty quickly (I mean, how long does it take to change a tyre or two?) but a glut of customers also waiting for tyres to be sorted meant that the whole thing took about 2 hours... car garage waiting rooms are not the most comfortable of places...
Oh, the joys of car ownership!
2 comments:
I'm glad I don't own one anymore!
I am neurotic about "noises" in the car, so yesterday was a very fraught journey back from Callander, saying the rosary the whole way, praying that I wasn't getting a puncture!
(Then of course there was the added cost of someone scratching the paintwork of the hire car! GRRRR!!)
I think you get some time off purgatory for waiting at a auto repair shop. Double if you say the rosary.
In the US they used to teach us the coin trick - "Yes, if you put this penny on your tire tread an can see Lincoln's head, you have waited too **** long and it's a miracle you haven't had a blow out."
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