Flow man Thanks for that .The person who gets it in the neck is the controller at point of sale ..IE ME!.I will obviously accept delays and have done ,in this case however ,it looked like I was taking the pi$$ .I am aware that there is a much bigger picture but what about letting me know what the problem was instead of just stuffing on delay followed by delay ..a DD message with a few lines on it EXPLAINING to the guy at the airfield would be nice .The DD as you know will alert the assistant or controller to the urgency of the situation and make him feel less like a numpty when he cancels push and start or in my case threatens to send a guy back to stand!