It appears that this advanced, technically proficient, super linked, road strewn country of the UK has a few problems in getting a bike from the south to the north west.<\/p>\n
I’ve been cursing customs for their bureaucratic red tape, when it’s actually cleared them and has been sitting with the shippers, who” don’t have anything going that way for a while”. That’s all of 150 miles away. I’ve even paid up front for delivery.<\/p>\n
Now they’ve given me a date for shipping to a local dealers (MOT, UK spec changes etc..). It’s the 20th April.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The dealer shuts on Mondays and guess what the 20th is?<\/p>\n
Then I get an email from Karen…she gets calls from T mobile in the USA saying my mobile phone line has an error. The line was cancelled in early March after emails, calls and letters with a series of documents having to be posted, after having to wait an additional 90 days, after having to call to get the sim unblocked, after having gone to the UK T mobile to get a new sim, but being refused a contract because of no current UK credit history so having to keep topping up the stupid thing. Plus I’m still getting billed by T Mobile and am having to sort that out.<\/p>\n
But can you imagine all that inconvenience of having to take a phone call or two…<\/p>\n
Also, there’s still the matter of finding a job, living out of boxes because there’s no room to unpack. In fact most of my things aren’t even here with me, they are in a friend’s shed.<\/p>\n
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But hey, can you imagine having to take a phone call or two…that must be such a strain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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