here's one for you.
as you might have guessed by now, my bus lies dismantled and abandoned in the garage next to our house... we're halfway through some renovations that have led to the power to the garage being isolated, and there's been a catastrophic tat avalanche which means that getting into the garage for, say, a screwdriver is hard enough, but a couple of months ago now... what was the occasion ? oh yeah, we were going to france and i needed to get the red warning triangle which i knew was in the cupboard under the rock & roll bed (where also lurks the wreckage of an abandoned bacon sandwich from a past life) which meant i had to venture in beyond the tat sarcophagus and crawl indianapolis jones style into the very heart of darkness.
pause whilst i watch the hailstones.
anyway, i've got in through the door, over the westy sink unit and the abandoned conduit piles, tiptoed between 3 sets of B&Ps, past a stripped down 1600 and a couple of bicycle skeletons, and i was in through the driver's door. it might not sound much to you but remember this was all in pitch darkness... i must chronicle it for posterity on you tube before my imminent divorce avoidance strategy forces me into a tidy-up.
anyway, i'm in. there's a bathroom mirror on the floor of the walk-through section, i know that from memory... actually it's a bit like the crystal maze or something... and a small pile of BMX tyres. oh, and a deckchair, and this is getting ridiculous now, and i'm about to admit defeat, but we NEED the warning triangle and i NEED to stay married so i press on a bit further and then it suddenly hits me... my 'new' phone has a built-in torch :shock:
happy days.
i've got the thing out, scrolled to the right menu, clicked on 'on' and i swear to god the whole fucking interior was just criss-crossed with webs, and those fuckers with the huuuuuuge long legs and tiny bodies... cornish terror spiders i think they call them :x
'course, i shit my pants, but i can't turn and run, oh no, i've got to gently manoeuvre myself through 180 degrees, step gingerly over the tyres, avoid damaging the mirror, etc. etc. etc.
a ridiculous way for a so-called grown man to be living his 'life', if you can call it that.
i'm going out there and i'm clearing it up right now, and nobody can...
oh yeah, it's hailing :?
*i'll do it next weekend*
h.r. geiger made a living out of this sort of thing didn't he :roll: