Gort

​08/03/23
Gort Tyres 11.50am
Slow puncture.
Six legs visible underneath a white Hyundai, synchronized teamwork, the middle pair taking the lead, they do a little shimmy.
The sounds of electric tools. A small pair of legs in my rear-view mirror. Car on an angle, leaning sideways.
North Sea lubricants and luminous gloves, a young man with a serious face.
Metallic sounds moving up and down the scale, vibrations and echoing indecipherable voices.
Metallic clunk and vibration of steel, percussive spanner, hiss of air. I am level again.
He returns with a spanner, focused, purposeful.