talkmagic.co.uk

So I went up to Leeds for the meet yesterday, had a great time. I must thank Tenko for the help, advice and instruction.

Anyhoo, on the way home i missed my fuel stop but thought to myself never mind i'll get the next one I must have just thought it when i drove into heavy traffic caused by road works. The computer had displayed 5 miles left in the tank for the last 15 minutes and it's a deisel so i really didn't want to run out. I was sweating and talking to the wife on the phone, she managed to find me a fuel stop a mile off the motorway at the next juntion. Luckly i managed to get there and fill up, so i pull out and head back to the motorway. The wife rings as i approach the roundabout and slip road, so I'm talking and taking grief for nearly running out of fuel with all the " you'd be having a right go at me if it was me that left it that long to fill up blah blah" (the irony ). About then i lost signal on the phone and set off home thinking about the new tricks i had seen and what i need to practice. Then seven junctions later i realised i was heading north instead of south . Not one but seven junctions later, I didn't know if i should laugh or cry.

Well i got home eventually and it made a long day but a good day.

The wife hasn't stopped hounding me about it yet, it's the holy grail of motoring mishaps as far as she's concerned. Well I'm not bothered, no really I'm not, honestly, really, who cares

Deshi,

Thank you buddy for the appreciation, and thanks too for the lift. When I got in the pub I was chatting with a bloke at the bar. He was going on about close up magicians and said he had seen this bloke on telly who had bent a card and put it in the middle of the deck and it had jumped to the top. I did it for him and he went round everyone in the pub telling them that I'd just done the trick he'd seen on telly

If you were coming back up the motorway, you should have stopped off for that drink after all

That is a corker! It's not uncommon for me to wind up going the wrong way round the M25 but that's almost blind luck sometimes... 7 junctions on the M1 is a record!

Good to see the both of you at the meet-up - sorry I couldn't stay for a few more drinks (or actually have a proper "drink" for that matter). The gig turned out to be a damp squib as far as magic was concerned, they'd timetabled it so rigorously there was no slack time for me to wander around. Ah well, it's good for my liver, and my wallet!

Ah..... reminds me of the time I was waiting for my boss to turn up to a meeting in Liverpool.

He was running rather late and i was about to call him when he called frantically that he'll gone to the end of the M56 and ended up in Wales and not the end of the M62 as he should have done. It couldn't have happened to a nicer bloke

Great to meet you and glad you made it hope safely

A great reason for sat nav.

a) Unlike popular belief it almost always gets you where you want to be.

b) If it all goes horribly wrong, you can always blame your hapless electronic chum.

Well the car has built in sat nav, something the wife mentions about 2 minutes into her rant. I use it to get in and out of the city etc but once on the straight road home what can go wrong

Hands up, I've done this as well returning to London from Wales. However the funniest one was when I did a spot of courier riding on my motorbike, a new guy was told via radio that there was a package in the office for him to collect and take to Birmingham (or someplace equally miles away) 10 mins passed and there was no sign of him so the controller called him on the radio to get his position, he was half way to Birmingham without the parcel.