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Originally Posted by happyland

My friend finally got home at 4.30am after 14 hours stuck on it.. the army eventually came with food supplied friom Asda..

Happyland... I totally missed this part of your post... sorry!!

Jezzus, that's one hell of a time: I thought I was bad, that's simply awful. Your friend didn't happen to be on the M80 Cumbernauld way at all? I heard that that, as well as parts of the M74 were simply horrendous. Poor souls..... good that Asda supplied the grub and the Army got it to them. It's unreal how cold you get, chilled right through,so very quickly - and how long it takes to warm up again.

Here's a wee 'You're having a laugh mate' moment. 5 of us were in the service station, knowing we were going to be stuck for quite some time, we bought several packs of sandwiches, crisps, choc, drinks, mags, newpapers, ciggies to take back to the cars, all of us spending about £30 per person (their prices were shocking!).

Whilst we were at the services, we had a few cuppas....... I went back up for another tea and asked if I could have 2 teabags. Young male assistant behind the counter said, "I'll need to charge you for 2 teas then...".

I looked at him as if he'd come off another planet and before I could challenge him, his 'colleague' lady assistant spun round, looked at him in the same way, saying, "You aren't being serious...that lady has been in here since first thing, she and her friends have been spending in here all day....how DARE you", then reached out to his till to amend the 2 teas, to 1 tea. Well done to the lady assistant for showing some common sense and good grace!!

Bloody cheeky.