Friday 13th Caught Up With Us

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After commenting several times about not being superstitious about Friday 13th, I have to wonder if it didn't just come a day late for us. We've been having a few problems with our new car. To cut a long story short, it now has no brake lights so we can't drive it. We had to take the car trailer out to the church where a concert is being held tonight so, because we couldn't take the car, we decided to take the bus and stay the night. We don't like driving the bus in the dark. We needed to be at the church when it got dark to check out the lights we were going to put up. We were taking a generator too. So we used the car to move the car trailer to a better position for hooking up the bus. Taking the trailer off it rolled forward and bumped a tiny dent in the back fender. That's No. 1. Then the bus had a flat battery so we put it on charge for an hour. When Vin went to start it, he'd accidently knocked the switch and it hadn't been charging at all. After much to-ing and fro-ing we tried to start the bus with the car. No go. So we waited another hour and off we went. On arrival at the church we couldn't get the gas fridge to light up even after backing and forthing getting it as level as possible. Guess what? Both gas bottles were empty which meant there'd be no dinner as well. We started the generator and had it charging the bus battery just in case it decided not to start next morning. After several hours running cords hither and thither and hooking up lights here, there and everywhere not to mention attaching a seven-metre light-pole to a tree, we had finished. Usually the light-pole slides down into the ground a metre but here we had to use what was available. So we had drinks and nibblies sitting outside, Vin had a banana sandwich for his dinner but I was pretty much over concerts by then and just went to bed! All is well this morning. Kookaburras laughed us awake, the sun was shining, we did a few last minute things, locked up the church, the bus agreed to start and we were on our home by 7am. Roll on concert number 26!