Help came before Rachel Thieves had finished punishing us .
The day began badly. I had a letter from an expensive London retirement village offering me a a M&S voucher if I visited their home, with bistro, gym and swimming pool…. with a view to buy a £1 mill flatlet Then I opened another letter from Wiltshire Farm Foods! Feeling ancient I bio oiled my new knee and met up with Volvo assist.
I discovered my Volvo does have a dipstick, unfortunately it was me . He took out the batteries from the fobs as he said people often pushed in the prong connections causing them not to work. Happy with that he popped in a new Panasonic battery and the car came back to life. Then he noticed that whilst I had removed a battery sized Repulsive taste card printed in several languages the underside of the battery had a 4 or 5mm Bitrex sticker . Having removed the incredibly well packed batteries and not touched them with my fingers, I had not seen this extra Health & Safety measure !
I apologised to the guy, grovelling for forgiveness but he was a gent and said don’t worry,
I feel you guys deserve to know of my incompetence and to buy Panasonic 2032 batteries to save any embarrassment .
MM
