Adventure on the Plus Highway

Friday evening, on our way to Sintok, we were stuck in the Le Tour de Langkawi crowd in Kuala Kangsar. The two hours that had dragged on tested our patience to the limit. We had left earlier than usual to have dinner in Changloon, alas fate had other plans for us that night.

Just after we had passed the Gurun R&R, I hit an object on the road. Turned out to be a lorry's long shaft, lying across the two lane highway. Split the two right side tires and severely damaged the aloy rims. With us, were five other similarly fated motorists. Luckily no injuries other than to our dinner plans.

Time was nine thirty pm then. Changed the rear tire with the spare. Typically, my spanner and jack was borrowed and never returned. The Plus Ronda chaps, used their tools and changed it for me. Terima kasih abang Plus Ronda. Then gradually  all of them had changed tires with their spares and went on their way. But I had two damaged tires, one down, one to go. Faisal called his cousin to bring a Wira tire, in between his Facebook postings.
His cousin arrived with his spare but forgot his tools. We called Plus Ronda again and once again the chaps helped us out. Terima kasih abang Plus Ronda. We hadn't driven a kilometer, when the long unused tire brought by the cousin also burst. Which mirror did l break today? I am experiencing the seven year bad luck in one night. Pulled to the side. The Plus Ronda who had just helped to change our second tire of the night also stopped. They called a tow truck. The tow truck arrived at two am. By that time, we were hungry and tired to say the least. All set, we were towed to Alor Star and reached a tire shop at three in the morning. Checked into a budget hotel while Faisal went to buy some food. (was it a late dinner or a very early breakfast?)
By eight the next day, we had made arrangement to have the tires and rims replaced and went to breakfast.

Later with a new set of tires and rims, and having made our police report for insurance claim purposes, we finally arrived on campus at half past one. We had already missed our first lecture. As we entered the hall, we were greeted by the time conscious Dr. Moqib, " You are an hour and half late" Sheepishly we sat and the Professor continued his lecture.

Later we attended the Quality lecture at a familiar place, Micro Room.

After classes, we stopped by Pendang and Sg Petani to finish up on the police report.