Some of you may or may not know, that because of the lack of facilities all over the country, it has been difficult to do things that we normally do in our daily life, like find food outlets that are open, park up etc etc.
Well, if you have been using Warwick Services of late, you will know that a guy and his family, have been cooking and distributing AT THEIR OWN EXPENSE, hot food on an evening to drivers that are parked there.
Sadly, Warwick Services have wielded the big stick at him, and told him that after today, it has to cease.
With admins permission, if you go to:
facebook.com/groups/2102949 … 0/?cft
Or:
facebook.com/hashtag/freefo … pa=HASHTAG
you can read the story yourself. The guy is called Patrick Owens, and you may need to look for his posts.
Ken.
Wow! Such a shame for the guy. I think the line trotted out by Warwick services management (team no doubt) that lorry drivers were complaining is an absolute cop out, and I fully believe that some pencil necked 20 something years old spotty duty manager decided to leave his mark!
I can’t say I’ll boycott those particular services as I’ve never actually pulled into there, but I do fervently hope that the fleas of a thousand camels infect their anuses.
njl:
blue estate:
Never stop at the south bound Warwick services all ways push on to Cherwell valley more chance of getting a ■■■■■■■■■■■■ than Warwick
and those speed humps on the way in to the north bound 
enough to make you pee yer self even before you stop 
They have ripped them up now so all flat!
Aint been out in a truck since 31st of March 
Lol, them speed humps. Bet many drivers have nutted the roof as they haven’t noticed them, particularly at night. Always a bollock shaker. [emoji23]
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You can say bollock on here. I feel dirty. [emoji1787]
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I avoid all Welcome Break services (except Woodhall), I’m not paying the motorway tax at their food franchises. If I can I’ll try and get to a place with a McDonald’s as they don’t jack their prices up. Same for Moto, nearly £10 for a Double Whopper meal in Burger King. It’s at least a quid extra with no real justification.
I have to be starving to eat at at KFC or Burger King on the motorway.
^^^^ download the Moto deals app Terry, they have a daily deal at Burglar King, usually end up with some meal deal for £3.99
All MSA’s are there solely to rip you off and staffed by little Hitlers, have just received an apology by e-mail from Extra after one their staff demanded that I pay after being in Cobham service for 2hours 15 minutes despite a sign 30 foot away clearly stating that the first 3 hours are free, Bullying tactics being implemented by people who don’t even know what the regulations that they are enforcing.
This was shared on Facebook by a friend:-
So this morning I was sitting in my truck just finishing a driving break at Sutton Scotney Services at the bottom of the A34. I was the only truck in the services as the roads were very quiet. Had a chat with a work colleague on the phone and shut my eyes for 5 minutes. Suddenly there was a bang on the cab door and I looked out but couldn’t see anyone. Then I looked down and saw a small boy backing away from the truck. I wound the window down and said “hello young man.” He answered “Mister, there is a cup of coffee by your front wheel for you from me and my mum to say thank you for carrying on delivering what you are delivering but I don’t know what you are delivering.” He pointed his mum out and I gave her a wave to say thank you. I then got out of the truck to pick up the coffee and found, also, a packet of 3 custard cream biscuits next to the drink. His mum had taught him to social distance and he stayed about 10 feet away from me as we chatted. I started to drink the drink and I opened the biscuits and offered him one but he said his mum had told him not to eat any because they were for the lorry drivers. I said that I wouldn’t tell her and placed the packet on the cab step and moved away and he took one. He told me that he had already had six today but his mum didn’t know. He also told me that because he and his mum had nothing to do on the holiday weekend they thought they would come out and buy the drivers a cup of coffee at the services. She was buying them at W H Smiths and it was his job to deliver them. I thanked him very much and said goodbye and waved to his mum again and left to continue on my way home. As I left the services 2 little girls jumped out of his mum’s car and waved a small handwritten poster that simply said “Thank you driver.”
He did tell me his name but I am not going to publish it on here to protect him.
So, to end, Thank you to that little man and his mum and, I assume his sisters for making the truck drivers world a better place for a short time.
Stay safe little “feller” the world needs you and more just like you.
I don’t normally ask for my posts to be shared but this one is worthy of it. And you never know, a friend of a friend of a friend……. word might just get back to them to let them know what a great thing they did. I just wanted to give the cheeky little bugger a hug, but in these times you can’t.
Please share.
Oops, posted it twice.
Well we all make mistakes, as the Dalek said, crawling off the dustbin.
that was a lovely gesture, one good thing to come out of co.vid people do seem to be more tolerant of eachother…