Felix Forgets.
Working at night can be a bind. It upsets your social life something terrible. I always manage to turn my day around quite quickly, in general terms I'm always so tired that I could fall asleep on a line. Thus, I can go to bed at Midday on the first shift, 'wake up at six in the evening... and it's like six in the morning. All you have to do is kid yourself for the rest of the seven nights and keep to a daytime diet.
Jake actually enjoys me on nights. He knows now that I will come home, tired but not exhausted, have a cup of tea and then take a good loooooooong walk. I feel the benefit of the walk as much as he does. There is not much company at night, not much fresh air. There is also quite a lot of excitement at night, a fair bit of stress. The walk is good.
Yesterday we had walked for an hour and more without bumping into Felix. When Jake's head went up and he tore off, I knew we had found our man. I followed the dog. "Ah BRIAN!...I'm so glad I bumped into you "........( 
We'd been looking out for him for an hour ). Seems that Felix had left the lights on his car burning all night. He got his wife to help push him onto the road and " Bump started it ". Trouble was, on such a short drive to the Common...he hadn't boosted the battery enough
. Should have heard him rant.
" Drove bloody tanks and trucks all over bloody Europe! Bloody drove bloody coaches all over the WORLD for thirty years...I go and do this...first time Brian...I swear..first and last bloody time!"
I told Felix to hang on while I walked home and parked the dog and picked up my own car to Jump Start his. He asked me to 'phone his Wife and let her know why he was taking so long. ( Was she pleased...and did she have some nice things to say about Felix 
. " Silly old man! Making me push his damned car ! I told him to walk up and put the battery on charge...but HE knows better!" ).
It was a simple job and soon done. I followed him home where he insisted I come in for a breakfast of mushrooms he had picked that morning, with some Placki and Cherry Vodka.
Do you know?..his dog Nipper ....friendly as he is with me on The Common....wouldn't let me into the house! Felix locked him in the garden. BAD Nipper!
I slept well.
Das doing a good turn.
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