Twiki speaks

Can't be bothered with New Year's resolutions. Only made them one year which was to quit my job, make my lunch every day and go to Mass more often. Moderately successful actually but there we go.

Spent Christmas at parentals before going to Claire's parents for New Year. All good except for driving to and from Newcastle. And sleeping in separate bed to Claire at her parents. Still, their house, their rules.

Most pissed off at service stations after having to stop on the way. Don't know why as I know they're crap but still anage to leave there more agry and streessed than when I got there in need of a break and food.

Still don't know why they have to be so sodding expensive. Even Burger King has a massive mark-up of food along with the rest of the crap service.

I've read articles where service station chiefs say they have big overheads as they have to be open 24 hours.

So fucking what? I've been in the early hours and there's sod all people on and bugger all open. And that's still no excuse for charging 50 per cent more for food. Tesco has a 24-hour garage as well and that doesn't give it an excusew to up the price of petrol by a couple of pence a litre.

The other claim is that they get people coming again to service stations. That would be long-distance drivers coming in because there's nowhere else to go.

Other things that piss me off about them is the fact that you often can't get free cash from ATMs there anymore. It's my money. You are robbing bastards.

And the fact that you can now only park for two hours free anymore. My mum used to meet up at a convenient service station, leave the car there and then share a car with other people when going long distance. In that way, share a car, do bit for environment etc. But no longer.

No reason why they charge for parking. Except that they are robbing bastards.