fail

The date on the computer says today at eight, the memory says today at eight thirty and the watch says seven twenty.

A typical mistake, and now things are later than they should be, later than planned, it is time to go, hurry, for the people at the technical inspection place will not wait.

Hurry out, ask the son to get the small trailer ready, go downstairs, opem the entrance doors to the house wide, grab the trailer and wheel it out into the alley. Put it down, and start to hurry off to get the car. Then-

realise that that car needs a different key to unlock and start it. Hurry back upstairs again, take the correct key from the knob that it hangs upon and rush downstairs again. 

Go down the alley, mind the schoolchildren on their bicycles ! and around the corner to the car. It is the bigger silvery car, the one that has the trailer hitch. Back it out of it's residents only parking spot and drive to the end of the street, do a U-turn in front of the Jesuit church and return to the alley. Install the trailer hitch and- Say goodbye to the son on his way to school- then take the car to the end of the alley, take a left into the New Town street and on to the traffic lights.

Hurry all the way through the town, cursing the traffic lights on the way, annoyance at the other drivers, cross the bridges, turn right after the last one and then it is only a short way.

Arrive ten minutes early.

Wait for the safety engineers office to open.

Pay the fee.

Drive the car into the shop, the one with all the instruments for checking things on motor vehicles.

Press the stop light when demanded.

It does not work.

There is a fuse blown in the car.

The stop lights on the car do not work either.

Test failed.

Come back inside two weeks,

after the item has been repaired.

So return home.

The wife has just got up.

Tell her.

Then off to work.