The twilight Zone

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Today in the afternoon i decided to go to the post office and since the nearest one is closed,i have to drive about a mile to post my letters.
When i was parking my car,i received a call from a friend who wanted to go to Bolton,and since his car had developed some fault,he wanted me to escort him,in case his car stops,at least i could tow him to hard shoulder before he calls the recovery.Looked like a simple task,i agreed and off we went.He was in front of me,and i was chasing him.After about 10 miles on the M61,near the exit to a slip road,his car suddenly came to a halt.I stopped at the hard shoulder.He was in the second lane with hazard lights on.As i was planning to cross one motorway lane and the adjoining slip road,i saw a large truck braking behind his car and swerving to avoid collision,and then there we two more similar near misses within 5 minutes.As soon as he found a chance,he abandoned the car and both of us stood behind the barrier.What initially looked like an easy and simple task was in fact very dangerous.
We had to call the police and the highway agency.They arrived within 10 minutes,and blocked one motorway lane,and the highway agency vehicle towed the car to the hard shoulder.Without them,it was nearly impossible.
From the safety of the hard shoulder,we called AA break down recovery,and they arrived in an hour to tow the broke down car to the scrap yard,at our request.
The friend was so scared from the three near misses in five minutes that he got rid of the car at the first opportunity.Although it was a fairly new Rover,recently MOT'd.
We should have used the internal roads for the adventure.Still it's weird that people don't expect a broken down car on motorway.Hazard lights were clearly blinking and that surely means that others have to steer clear,but still two truck drivers and one car driver came so close that they nearly hit the broke car.

I bought a kodak easyshare camera,really cheap from a car boot sale.It was boxed and when i came home and opened the box,there was no battery.Googled for the type of battery suitable for this model and had to buy from hong kong as UK prices were expensive.The battery arrived in a week and i charged it,then put it inside the camera,and surprise surprise,the camera powered on,only to reveal that the LCD screen at the back was cracked and without it the camera was almost useless.
Found a specialist camera repair company in Staffordshire,rang them up and they gave me a £66 quote for replacing the LCD.
After Googling about the procedure for changing the camera's LCD,i found that it was a simple task but the replacement LCD was not available in UK and the only seller i could find for this exact model was in USA.cost me another £40 and 15 days for the LCD to arrive.
Eventually the camera cost me more than the price of a brand new one from a high street retailer,but all sorted now and its working perfectly