Well it is hubby's birthday today, but he was working we aren't doing anything today. In fact he is on what bus drivers call a 'spread over', which translated into non bus speak, means a split shift, ie he has a gap in the middle. Now actually he is quite lucky, as the way it works at his garage is that the company does not pay them for 40 minutes, which is their meal break, but pays them for anything over the 40 minutes. That means although he can have about 3 hours off in the middle of his shift, apart from 40 minutes, the rest is payed. And he can do what he wants...........do home, go shopping............what ever he wants, how cool is that!!
So, I dragged myself out of bed in time to catch the 09.21 bus to Wycombe, so I could catch the 10.10 bus to Slough to meet hubby when his break started at 10.49 (ish). We then went for a coffee and then I took him to lunch. We really pushed the boat out and did pizza huts all you can eat buffet for £6.95 per person........................well his choice, he likes pizza and we couldn't really go to a pub as he had to go back to work!!!
I then caught the 14.10 bus back to Wycombe, to get the 16.05 bus home. For some strange reason we don't have a bus to the village around 3pm.............I am sure Arriva have a reason for this, other that customer inconvenience, and we can't even blame the cuts in council funding to bus companies, as we had this strange gap prior to the cuts.
Anyway it allowed me to pop into Tesco to get hubby a cake, as he announced over lunch he wanted one. Then I got to see the air ambulance land, just behind the bus on the way home as the road was blocked with an IRTC (that's injury road traffic collision in plain speak!)
I should also point out that it was exactly a year ago that hubby got his licence back from the DVLA with his provisional bus entitlement on it allowing him to embark on his new career!!!
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