The other day I was driving back from Merthyr, as I was running a little low on diesel I thought I'd pop in a local garage, trouble was I couldn't find it.
Now I had only been there once before, and that was with somebody giving me directions, but anyway I couldn't find it.
No worries I said I'll pop into the one in Hirwaun, I have been to that loads of times over the years, so no problems finding that one.... Well not quite, you see since the supermarkets cornered the fuel market with low price petrol and diesel (not to mention your weeks groceries) lots of the smaller garages have gone bust, in fact it's fair to say a hell of a lot of them have vanished, so much so that's it's getting bloody hard to find one that's not owned by a supermarket chain, and they tend to be only in the bigger town, so bugger all in Hirwaun, eventually I limped into Glyn Neath running on fumes and just made the garage there (bloody Tescos)
Why am I annoyed when the supermarkets have brought prices down? Well before there were dozens af garages everywhere, even little villages would one, more often that not with a mechanic lurking around for any problems you might have, this meant if you ran out or broke down you wouldn't have far to walk, heaven help you now!
