a fairground life

I went this morning to pick up an amplifier and mixer that was in for repair. I put it in a staggering three years ago! The amp took over 12months to repair, then they sold it by mistake,then it got lost,then they nearly give me someone elses until I pointed out it wasn't mine. Eventualy after two years I went to pick up the amp, but discovered that the mixer was also not working, so I left the lot to be repaired together and now another year later, it's ready. Mind you I haven't tried it yet.
After that I returned to the yard and give the lorry a once over for the MOT, found a tyre that was on its last legs. I went to the breakers yard and picked up a next to new one at a reasonable price. I had to use a 12ft steel tube on the wheel key to crack the wheel nuts. It's OK for the boys in the tyre services to use the air gun to put them on, but do they never think that somebody might be on the side of the road one night, when it's dark or raining and trying to change a tyre using a wheel key by hand??? Any how after much sweat and cursing I did get the wheel changed. Later I went over to the fair to meet up with the engineer who is testing the rides for me this year. I'm glad to say all was ok. All in all a busy day for me work wise.