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I won the auction for not a lot and got the details for where exactly this broken hoover was. Stuck the post code in google. Hmmmm not good. Staffordshire is a silly county and covers a lot of nothing!Hmm 60 mile round trip Not sure how I managed that. In the absolute middle of nowhere, and I mean nowhere!Great fun.
So on a Monday night, after a long day at work I am spending 45 minutes each way driving cross country for a shagged hoover. Bit of a FML moment really Found the place after driving down miles and miles of single track roads and a couple of calls for directions. Deal done lovely!So best part of 2 hours of my life I won't get back and I am home.Mrs not impressed.
I bet we have all been there too. But yea, lots of times I have won something that seemed cheap, and had to turn the collection of same into a 'fun Sunday drive' that ended up costing me more in a restaurant on the way home than there will be profit in it, or wasting time in the evening I could be quaffing wine and smiling by the open fire rather than trailing about someplace 20 miles further than I imagined at sub zero temperatures.