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Weblog: What do you mean the Wi-Fi doesn't work? The life of a Racing Post reporter

DAVID CARR'S RSS FEED POSTED AT 5:33pm 8 JAN 2012

It's just one of those days

SOME days you feel like you have stumbled into Monty Python's cheese shop - meeting an endless variety of excuses why you cannot have what you want.

Phoning round for news and getting nothing but reasons why there is nothing for me to write.

Most obviously because the person you need is not available. It may be 2012 but there are still those who do not seem to answer the phone on a Sunday.

Or because they have better things to do. One man I was really keen to talk to was playing golf and never takes his phone with him - which is great links etiquette but does me no favours.

Or because when I get them they do not wish to comment on the matter and refer me to someone I have just spoken too.

Or because there is nothing they can currently say due to 'protocol'.

Or because after telling me everything there is to know in a highly informative ten minutes they then decide all that they have said is off the record as it is too political.

It was one of those days.

A day when my 'good honest broadband from Yorkshire' - their words, not mine- seemed to want to take a nap every five minutes.

And when I had to break off in the afternoon to get a headlight bulb for the car. By the time it had got dark enough yesterday to notice that it had gone, there was nowhere able tohelp but a place in Otley said they would see me right if I came back after 2pm today.

Except that when I did, neither of the replacements they tried actually worked so the problem was clearly not with the bulb - they are not in the business of getting to the bottom of the kind of fault it actually is. And there was nowhere else to go to by then so I will need to get it fixed in the morning.

All of which means I could not legally go to Wolverhampton tomorrow- or more accurately, I could drive there in the daylight but I would not be allowed to drive back in the dark - so I will be on news again instead.

Can't possibly be as frustrating a day as today.