Drive! DRIVE! oh wait, stop.

This morning I woke up relieved to find the hole where my wisdom tooth used to be was not painful at all. This made me pretty enthusiastic about the day and I headed down for the early bus. My good mood was soon dampered by the bus stopping at lochend because a battery warning light had come on. The driver phoned the mechanics who told him "ah it doesn't matter; keep going". He did so, and about half a mile later three more warning lights came on, including one that has the rough meaning "stop the bus' engine immediately". So now the bus was officially broken down and I had to phone for a taxi. Whilst the taxi driver was struggling to find me based on the terrible instructions he was given by the call centre I had a chat with the driver, as the only passenger on the bus. He's Polish and through the discussion he was saying that he was actually happier working back in Poland as a mechanic. I thought that was a really surprising twist to the argument that 'they come over here and take our jobs' and all that, suggesting they're just here for easy money. I eventually got to work where it was fairly quiet for the first half of the day, picking up a bit mid afternoon. It was Allans last day before he leaves to work in Harveys, incidentally right next door to currys. He's basically the best salesman there and is the main man with the answers for any technical queries. This means that his absence is going to ruin the stores results in PCs, naturally a major section. This fact is apparently clear to the deputy who spent all day in complete meltdown, running around getting more and more annoyed at the inevitable events that were occuring and being extremely bitter to Allan. I had a few run-ins with him throughout the day which are always entertaining. One featured him claiming I wasn't paying attention to customers which I rebutted, firstly with my sales being top for the day, almost double those of the person in second. Furthermore, I was able to tell him what every customer in the shop was looking for and a brief summary of the conversation I had with them. Every single one. That's the sort of annoyance you have to deal with there. This evening I bought Gran Turismo 5 prologue at gamestation and spent ages playing it with my brother. I have very mixed thoughts of it. It has stunning graphics and all that but the cars feel sluggish, like you're driving a corsa instead of an impreza, and the physics are atrocious. I was blasting round the Daytona speedway at about 150mph when I decided to slam into the wall. My car gently bumped away straight back into my previous racing line with no damage or serious loss of control that a couple of flicks of the stick didn't rectify. On a rally style track I was duelling for first place so decided to ram them off the track. We both slowed down considerably from the impact and floated away from each other very slightly, just like dodgems going really slowly. I sincerely hope they fix these flaws in the final release because it has great potential. Song of the day tonight is 'oh' by girls generation. They're Korean and feature on a promotional blue ray that plays constantly in the LG section at work. They feature because LG always sign in one or two Korean groups to their marketing, being a Korean company. Now if anyone thinks its an odd song for me to pick, YouTube the video for it and consider that I was being paid to watch it. no more needs said.