Welcome back to part 2 for this motto madness where I have to live my life by the rules of He Who Dares Wins, and other crazy mottos, to see if living by a motto actually saves me any cash or not.
Yesterday sees me £10 down from a dodgy shot choice during a game of killer. Obviously I wouldn’t have taken the tough shot, but seeing as I’m living alongside a new life motto, I though, what the hell – he who dares wins. If you have no idea what I’m on about, check out part 1 then come back here to catch up.
So, I found myself driving home from the office and still a good few miles out from my house. During the rush hour we have these really annoying traffic control barriers that shut and close between the peak hours in the morning and night to stop millions of cars cutting miles of their journeys by bombing down little side turning and short cuts. The tricky thing is that sometimes the fella that comes to open and close the gates comes early and I’ve seen a few occasions where I could have made it few about 25 minutes early.
Well as is always the case, I’m driving past the road that leads me to the traffic control barrier about 20 minutes before its due to open. Usually I keep on going, I take the long, extended route and add about 20 minutes on to my journey time cos of these stupid barriers. But, today is know ordinary day, I have a new spring in my step, a new lease of life, today I have a motto. Within a flash I had gone hard on the brakes, slammed on the left hand indicator and shouted out nice and loud “He who dares wins” and headed straight for the barriers to chance my luck.
As I turned the next corner I waited in anticipation, was the barrier open, had I just save myself not only a shed load of time, but also a decent amount of fuel. Yes, my luck was in, the old boy was right in front of me, opening the gates and making me the first motor of the night to speed on through them. Good shout, a tidy saving! That single decision based on the new life motto meant that I shaved about 20 minutes of my journey which is easily £3 in petrol, leaving me £7 squid down.
So far, this motto lark is doing me in, its only been a day and I’m still short of change cos of it,. Oh well I’m sure tomorrow will hold some more interesting challenges, fingers crossed there motto money savers. More to follow…..
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