You Couldn’t Make it Up!

I was working on my computer last night when I received a phone call, the customer on the phone asked if I would go out to his broken down car as he had been advised by the RAC to switch his hazards warning lamps on and stand back off the road until the RAC recovery vehicle arrived. 

Three hours later the RAC had still not arrived, the customer advised me on the phone he was freezing cold and really needed to get home. I went out to his broken down car and put my van at the rear of his car with my emergency lights on, the traffic was very heavy laden on the main road at around 6.00pm and his hazards were starting to fail in operation.

I got out the van and started to talk to the customer when the RAC arrived and parked his recovery truck in front of the car. I advised the RAC guy that the CV joint had failed and required recovering. The RAC guy put the car onto his truck and agreed to follow me back to the garage, then after a couple of miles the RAC truck went missing , not knowing what had happened to him I turned around and started to go back towards where the car was broken down, then I saw the RAC truck half on and half in the main road, parked say at a 45 degree angle to the nearside curb, therefore I again turned my van round and parked at the rear of his truck with my emergency lights on.

I went up to the RAC guy and asked him, what seems to be the problem?

The RAC guy says to me, the gearbox/gear selector has failed and I can't get the gears

He advised that he would have to wait for another RAC mechanic to come out and fix his truck. The car eventually got delivered last night at about 9.15PM