When boating, you sometimes have to think the worse, and the worse often happens such as having no means of transport home, having no mobile phone, not having contact numbers in case you break down and so the list continues.
When we broke down, the Captain went into panic mode, he didn’t have the number of a breakdown service and couldn’t remember his wife’s phone number and he couldn’t get a signal and even more important, didn’t know exactly where they were.
After climbing the up the river bank, signals were had on the mobile phones and the horizon consisted of a public park area. We then scuttled across the green to hit the road. The road sign had been stolen by some dickhead or carefully removed to add to the collection of an ardent street sign collector, however on the opposite side of the road, there were two signs intact. We were at the junction of Gossmore Lane and Mill Road. So when phoning up and summoning transport it pays to pay attention to detail.
The Captain phoned his wife and asked for transport home the following day. When in fact she did phone back, she corrected the location to the junction of Crossmore Road and Mill Lane .Aren’t Google Maps and GPS wonderful tools and even with these facilities ,the Captain’s wife almost got lost in the twisting, turning back streets of Marlow.
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