M1 Journey
Friday 19th January 2007 06:45:13 PM
I hadn't seen my mate Rio for nearly a week, and if you know us you'll know we meet up everyday even if it is for 5 minutes. The reason behind it was he feeling ill and just lounging around the house hence receiving the royal treatment from family members. I can't remember staying home in the evenings for that many days in a very long time, I was beginning to think if this guy doesn't get well soon I might aswell end up getting a girlfriend, can't stay home and not do anything in the evenings!
He did ask me to come to his house a few times but I kindly declined his offer (it's just not the same as "chipping out"). Anyway I asked him if he was going to go to Leicester like he does most Thursday's (personal reasons) and he said he wasn't because he was too ill to drive. I knew it was important to him so I thought why not give him a lift as I have a full day off as it is.
So yesterday we set off before 9 on the M1 motorway and got there sometime after 11, it's a 100 mile journey one way and it's the longest journey I've ever done. Surprising I wasn't tired from the driving at all and got to see Leicester for the first time aswell.
On the way back it was a totally different story. We got on the M1 and it seemed we were making good time when all of a sudden, traffic. Traffic on a motorway? I hear you say, that's what I thought too when we came to a standstill. Suddenly there were police cars and emergency vehicles zooming down the hard-shoulder.
Sometime later the traffic cleared and we got to see the cause of the delay, a huge overturned truck had crashed into the motorway barrier and dented it. It was scary ...
Off we went again, I was going as fast as I could trying to make up for time when we had to stop again. This time a huge lorry and a van had crashed into each other. Once again emergency teams were rushing to save lives and get the motorway flowing.
We were doing OK for about 20 minutes when yet another traffic-jam piled up, Rio had the wild idea of booting it down the hard-shoulder to get to a service stop and so we did. After eating, stacking up on munchies for the journey and killing some time we thought the traffic-jam had cleared, but no.
Instead of being extremely agitated, tired or vexed we both went into "stupid giddy mode sing-a-long" and we discovered that we can do some great duets especially to the oldie goldy bollywood stuff. Mix that with a lot of cigarettes, jaffa cakes, walkers sensations, and malteasers, and you could say you've got yourself a little party.
Then there was the "look what I can do" from me where you just lay back in your seat (to relax) and put the car in first gear and drive with your legs, Rio was shit scared and was like "you're gonna have an accident, I know you're due a few", that didn't stop me though and carried on for a 20 minutes. He finally got the message and would change gears and release the handbrake when required without me saying anything. Cool ...
When we finally got out of there, we saw that a HGV had overturned because of the ghastly winds and the police were not letting any heavy vehicles on the motorway by forcing them to get off at the next junction. From there it was straight sailing back home, we arrived 3 hours late than what should have been.
I read somewhere on the internet that 7 vehicles had overturned on the M1 that day and we had seen 3 of them. The weather was terrible, windy, rain switching on and off, and it was hail stoning for a moment aswell. Urgh.
Have to say it was a good day and I had a laugh, totally "go with the flow" day and I don't get those often. I'd been out for 12 hours and on top of that wanted to do an all nighter!
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U let me down
Made me the talk of the town
Showed me up as if I was some sort of a clown
Every time u saw me your face would just frown
U made me change ma ways I started selling weed and brown
Now ma hearts bleeding seeing u in your wedding gown
I earned so much I could wear the king’s crown
Now am slowly dying
Your love was the killer which I was applying
Knowing that u left me without trying
I just can’t live with all this lying
I did everything I can 2 make sure I was complying
Every time I spoke 2u I couldn’t stop sighing
If love was up for sale id be the 1st to be buying
Slowly but surely ma tears are drying
Love isn’t a game like stunt flying
Ma job out there is supplying
Not knowing which fucker is spying
I got nothing from u, yet you was so defying
Am smiling but am still in pain
Passing each day snorting cocaine
Why is this life so hard to explain?
My tears drop like acid rain
Giving u everything and receiving nothing what did I gain?
U just couldn’t leave the wounds to heal u hurt me again and again
I always did what u said never did I complain
U was the one who I was going to attain
Not knowing what your heart could contain
My money is all that remains
U know what you’re fucking insane!
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