Tuesday, December 27, 2005
Bournemouth away - the art of car parking and tanks
So yet another experience of an away game, midweek, long-distance, must be mad type of thing - this was before the motorways went anywhere near the place, no M3 or nothing like that - so it was all cross-country stuff on "a" roads... on my own this time, no-one else stupid enough to go, not even BJ or my daughter.....so when I get there, park in the car park at the ground, well before kick off, loads of space everywhere.
Once again, Vale are not impressive - lose 1-0 ( Jamie Redknapp played for them) and feeling pissed off as usual.Go out to the car park after the game and find that at least four people have parked their cars - one in front, one behind, one to left and one to right, plus others close by that make it difficult . No way I can move - and it seems like they've all gone to the pub after the game - they're all Bournemouth fans....or at least so the window stickers say, so I could be in for a long wait, and it's nearly 10 already...and it's not going to take much less than 4 hours or so to get home - it took that long to get her, and I think I did well with the traffic and all, so it could be interesting....sit in the car for a while, waiting, looking at gaps, whether I could "bounce" cars out of the way or not....not, it seems, even with other people on the car park who sympathise with my plight...well, after about half an hour, someone turns up and moves one of the cars out of the way , and with a bit of manouevring I can get away !! Hooray- and it's only half past ten !
Once again, Vale are not impressive - lose 1-0 ( Jamie Redknapp played for them) and feeling pissed off as usual.Go out to the car park after the game and find that at least four people have parked their cars - one in front, one behind, one to left and one to right, plus others close by that make it difficult . No way I can move - and it seems like they've all gone to the pub after the game - they're all Bournemouth fans....or at least so the window stickers say, so I could be in for a long wait, and it's nearly 10 already...and it's not going to take much less than 4 hours or so to get home - it took that long to get her, and I think I did well with the traffic and all, so it could be interesting....sit in the car for a while, waiting, looking at gaps, whether I could "bounce" cars out of the way or not....not, it seems, even with other people on the car park who sympathise with my plight...well, after about half an hour, someone turns up and moves one of the cars out of the way , and with a bit of manouevring I can get away !! Hooray- and it's only half past ten !
