a fairground life

Saturday
Up at 9am and to the shed.I worked on the skydiver until 2pm then left to open the miami at the music event."R" and I arrived on site at 4pm. We went early to check the ride over and tidy the personnel barriers around the ride. Around 5pm we could hear the queue chanting in the distance. At 6:30 pm the gates opened and there was an almighty roar as the patrons began to file in. Every person was searched by sniffer dog and it took 5 hours until the last people were admitted. It was slow starting for the rides and never really got busy. Maybe it was the time of year, maybe it was the cold weather but business was slow compared to other events. If I knew it was going to be like this I would have let my wife and "r" do it and I would have stayed working in the shed.
Sunday
At 4am we closed and pulled down. At 4:50 am I was driving out the gate with the miami taking it back into the shed. We got there just after 5am. We moved a few vehicles and began to reverse jack knife the ride through the doors. There was a lorry parked just inside the doors that I had no keys for. We tried to squeeze in past it. The angle was wrong so we got the ride half in and removed the lorry to couple up on another angle. We got in a bit further but there was not enough room as the other lorry was in the way. We tried for nearly two hours and just before 7am I had no choice but to phone the owner of the other lorry (sorry to him for calling so early) as we had got jammed unable to get in or out and I could not leave the shed doors open. He arrived shortly afterwards and with his help at 8am the ride was finally back in where it had started from a few days ago. I was in bed for 8:30am and awoke again just before noon, so back to the shed again until 9pm. Got to get his ride finished. I'm stripping out the cars again and checking the frames, after that I will paint the floors so I can fold the ride up.