Had a lovely day today, brother Scoop, SIL…K and their children, A and S, came over this afternoon, we all relaxed, ate a late lunch, so I figured that while they were here, Icould get some much needed assistance to remove bonnet from Kingswood.
Excellent idea, for about 15 minutes, until I noticed that with the last turn of the bolt holding hinge to bonnet, the hinge in a kind of round about way finally showed some protest and securely clamped onto my arm, which hurt for about 3 seconds then went numb (I love pain response). This was not a very nice clamp onto my arm it was more like a clamp INTO my arm, you know the soft delicate part between the wrist and the elbow, it actually pinched an area of about 5cm into its very very tight grip.
I had better mention here that not three minutes prior to this event I had said, Geeez hope I dont catch my hand in the hinge on the way out…….
After the release of that final bolt, I calmly mentioned or asked Brother Scoop if he would come around this (my) side of the car and hold the bonnet so I could remove my arm, reply was to the best of my knowledge, Oh Shit.
That was not the end of the amazing event….. no way, then it came time to release my arm from its grip, easy I hear you say, NOT, myself limited to the use of one arm (obviously) and the yelling (not by me) to attract the attention of my child two, to add an extra pair of hands to the rescue mission, therefore now we had three and a half people to assist. SIL……K remained holding aloft the bonnet (thankgod, didnt need any more weight on it at the time), Brother Scoop plans well under pressure and offered several possibilities, to which the last one was effective (always, cause you dont keep trying after success) and we tried them all, I think I needed to say OUCH at least twice during the entire ordeal, and then again when I finally got to have a look at the damage.
Unimpressed really, no blood, no everlasting scar, no exciting story to tell (apart from what was just told), lucked out on calling the Fire rescue team (damn it). Impressed with reaction of Brother Scoop, SIL….K and child two, glad no-one (including myself) fainted. Thanks guys for being there, sorry I had to get my arm caught in the stupid hinge, but thanks for the cake.
