I’m currently at my friend Tim’s house over in Yorkshire and my legs are starting to burn from the heat of his laptop. Tim’s getting married tomorrow which is going to be awesome; for most of us he’s the first person around our age group who we know who’s gotten married (or at least that will be the case this time tomorrow night).

All the rest of the guys are playing Pro Evolution Soccer (which considering the fact that I don’t much care for soccer is why I am instead writing on here).

Getting here was weird. Last night I tried to pack all my clothes, but ironically none of the clothes I’d put out on the line had dried, so I decided to do try again later that night. Except I fell asleep - something that I was not aware of until I awoke this morning.

When I woke up I panicked because I didn’t have long to get ready. I had to be in work for 8:15am and to my horror, it was 9:12am. That’s not a typo; I was majorly late for work.

So I show up, apologised for my lateness, paused for a couple of minutes, and then asked my supervisor if I could go home early. She asked how early (bearing in mind that I normally finish at 4:15pm).

“About 2 o’clock?”

She wasn’t happy, seeing as that was considerably early. Fortunately I was back in time to grab the shower I wasn’t able to this morning, get packed and leave for my friend Ben’s house where Ben would then take me to Tim’s.

Not a great start to the day really. Kinda cheeky to be honest.

Boy this laptop is hot. It’s making my legs sweat. The iBooks at work don’t get as hot as this.

Anyhoo - you might be wondering how I failed my test? Well it’s because I had the same a-hole as I had last time examining me.

He failed me on two counts;

1. He thinks that on a roundabout I didn’t look in my mirror to keep track of the car behind me - when I blatantly did; but obviously I didn’t move my head blatantly enough for him.
2. In a 60mph zone I was travelling 50mph around a not-so-sharp bend. He said “I would have gone about 10mph slower, because there could have been a broken down car around the corner”. I passed this information onto my instructor who said “Yeah he’s right. There could have been a broken down car. There could also have been a helicoptor rotorblade falling out of the sky…!”

So yeah, even my instructor thought that he was being unfair. Apparently he’s the strictest examiner that they have. Before the test I was really calm but the moment that he showed up my heart sank.

I feel tempted to unleash my minions upon him as well as a hoard of zombies who’ve been specially trained in the art of slashing-tyres. I wonder how well he’d be able to drive then. I bet none of them can drive perfectly. That examinor should be shot. Twice. In the head. With bullets that explode. Twice. And that also contain spikes. Fifteen of them in total. Yeah…. I want some of those.

I have some good news regarding The Choad Show. Assuming that Dave hasn’t been tempted away by girls in boobtubes. I’m not joking - he stood me up last night because a girl had mentioned down the phone that she was wearing one. He’s really weak. He even admitted so. He just can’t resist a blonde wearing as little as possible. It always happens; he’ll say that he’s not going out and then they’ll talk him into going out for one drink. But he never only has one drink, he’ll have several. And then whatever else happens usually happens and assuming he comes home that night it’s never until the early hours of the morning.

So assuming that doesn’t happen, seeing as I’m back on Sunday as is Dave (as he’s away in Manchester this weekend) then we’re planning on meeting up on Monday and doing another show either for a Monday or Tuesday release. We thought that seeing as we’ve had to skip one because of my birthday that we’d try and put in extra effort to make sure that we don’t skip this one aswell. See how kind we are?

I’m not sure what exactly it is that Dave’s doing over in Manchester. All he said to me is that he was bored with the mundane routine of work and being a good boy and doing everything right and that instead he wanted to go to Manchester and “do some very wrong things”. What he means by “some very wrong things” I’ll leave to your imagination.

I’d guess probably “stur-ripp-pers” (or ‘Strippers’ for those who perhaps aren’t regular listeners of The Choad Show).

Also for those of you still having trouble downloading the show, try right-clicking on the download link and selecting “Save target as” or “Save link as” (Command-click on Mac). I will be putting up full instructions on how to download them properly and how to subscribe in iTunes just to make things simpler for you.

Anyhoo, I’ve got to go before I find that my legs have been burnt off. Plus it’ll be nice to get some sleep without the bears outside over here in Yorkshire. Unfortunately, rumour has it that over here there are some rainbow-coloured kung-fu squirrels.

I’m just hoping that they’re nothing but a myth…

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