7 October - Just what you need on a wet Saturday evening
So
you spot on the CCTV that the stair lift is upstairs and the 98 year old is
downstairs and using the outside toilet and you phone and ask why. The old girl doesn’t seem to know what a stair lift is. A friend
goes in and confirms the chair isn’t working.
Phone Stannah and they say they will go around within an hour or two, can I be
there? It’s raining cats and dogs and its a long walk from the station at the
other end; curse Bexley Council for campaigning against Ken Livingstone’s
bridge. The car is taken from the garage and you find this; blocking my drive to the
right and the one behind the camera.
It happens all the time and the 1986 plans show the area as No Parking. It's
about time the rule was enforced with a bit of yellow paint.
Fortunately I am getting to know which of my lovely neighbours has visitors who
do this sort of thing so some door knocking got the problem fixed quite quickly. No apology.
Everyone who blocks my drive so blatantly gets featured here for posterity.
For the record, Stannah took until past 11 p.m. swapping parts and nothing fixed
the chair, so their man eventually took all the new components out and replaced the original
ones. It then worked and no one has any idea why. Stand by for another emergency call
soon.
Shades of Abbey Wood station lifts!