Delicate Transport

Sometimes, no matter what way you look at it, you're screwed...

It must be the week for it. Flat tyres that is. Seems that the brother of my friend (who's house we are staying at this weekend) has gotten himself a flat too, a great big screw in the tyre.

So after pondering what to do as he needs his car pretty sharpish, Phil drops him off to his destination in my car whilst me and my friend nip to Halfords to get a jack and a thing to undo the tyre bolts - we also pick up a KFC whilst we're there, well any sort of labour requires sustenance before embarking upon the task! :)

So with food eaten, we then change the tyre on his car, but the spare is in pretty bad shape with the rim being very rusty. So whilst he has now got 4 tyres none of us would be particularly keen driving on them. It should however get him to a tyre place to get a new tyre put on.

With the tyre fixed, we then set about loading up our car of the various bits and pieces that we have bought off our friends. They include a 43" Pioneer Plasma TV and a wall mounting kit for said plasma. We decide that since the plasma is quite delicate to transport we won't load up the car too much, and I'll come back tomorrow to pick up the rest of the stuff.

The trip home seemed to take forever, despite the fact that we'd got the plasma wrapped in duvets, sleeping bags and strapped into the back seat with the seat belts, it was still nerve wrecking driving it home. Every pothole in the road seemed to be the size of the grand canyon and every time we went over one Phil and I pulled grimaces which would disturb any other driver on the road to the point of distraction!

Plasmatastic!

We do manage to get home however in one piece, and once we'd unloaded the car we hooked up the plasma to ensure it was still working, which it was! And it looks even bigger in our lounge since the room is much smaller than where it was previously housed.

So, convinced it was working, we got the sound for the satellite and tv to play through the DVD player / speakers and set about customising the settings (brightness / sharpness etc) with a handy DVD that we'd also gotten which gives you step by step instructions on how to set a TV up for the best picture. We then stick on Final Fantasy just to have a gander at the quality, and I have to say... blummin heck! Its fantastic! :)

Posted by Abi on the July 3, 2005 10:44 PM