Those feelings Pharma,are because you ARE tired .
We act differently when we are not fresh and at our best.
We were travelling up the M1 one winter’s night ,with three children in the car.
My husband and I went to get coffees , mostly for my husband.
I saw a poster with an identikit portrait of a man inwhose car a missing nurse had been seen, went to get coffees,and there was the double of the man on the portrait, at a table drinking coffee.
I must add we had to cross from the North ound side to the South bound services ,going North were closed.
We called a Security Guard who called the Police.
To be brief,we were hours and hours,kept saying we had three children in the car on the other side, my eldest two were teenagers, mydaughter six and and fast asleep. It took us ages to persuade the Police we needed to tell our eldest son what was happening ,we did not want him to come looking for us
leaving a 14 year old in charge of the little one.
After several hours we were allowed on our way.
We knew my in laws would be very anxious as the ETA had long gone.
The Police phoned them and said only that we were “ helping Police with their enquiries!”
In laws were convinced we had at least been in if not caused a serious accident!
We were very tired after a rough channel crossing and delays when the ferry could not get into harbour .
We were less than patient as time after time to different people we were asked the same questions ,our statements were read back to us but little important facts were omitted or altered so we would not sign ,asked if we could write them ourselves etc but that was not allowed.
We wrote ours on drawing paper we had from the bag with things for on the boat ,to keep us amused ,noughts and crosses etc.
We signed those and posted them to the Chief Constable of where we were - at the Newport Pagnell services I remember.Posted them at the services I think.
That was pre 1976, Barbara Mayo was the young nurse who seemingly hitched a ride.
We were treated as suspects ,I thought things would have changed!
Messed up my alarm this morning when getting up, but seemingly a low battery was also partly to blame ,I have a Service contract, so all sorted this afternoon and new batteries in all the fobs .
Son goes for Angiogram on Sunday so hopefully it is OK ,but then the mystery remains as to why he feels so ill.
Well, bath and bed ,I am tired but not a great deal done.
However four times knocked off the drops time tomorrow so spaces between will be a little longer and I can settle to doing more.
Goodnight folks, look after yourselves .Viktoria..
P.S.Re reading the above—- by the time the Police arrived the man had gone on his way, he was with a companion and I remember they had quite a lot of bought packed sandwiches and Thermos flasks filled presumably at the cafe.
Whether he was going North orSouth could not be ascertained as the N bound services were closed and we had to cross over to S bound to get coffee .Even though our son was 16 we were uneasy about being away from them so long .
The annoying thing was later in a newspaper the Inspector or some ranking Police Officer made a statement saying how many times there had been reported someone bearing a resemblance to the identikit image ——
Quote” usually by drunks late at night”—!
We heard no more but my husband could not understand why the motorway was not closed ,both directions for as far as the speed limit would allow a vehicle to get,assuming the person did not leave the motorway ,but the amount of refreshments would indicate a long journey.
Our statements when read back were full of errors of grammar and ambiguous statements that were not verbatim .
It later was assumed Peter Sutcliffe had killed Barbara Mayo ,but the identikit
Portrait was nothing like him.
Viktoria.
