Today was the car servicing day that almost never was. The garage phoned me last night to try to rearrange it for another day, but alas I am not available any other day. I did suggest I'd drop it off and keep the courtesy car for as long as it took them to do it.....and amazingly they managed to fit me in today
As it turned out, it was a good thing they did it in one day. I arrived to collect my courtesy car and was told it was brand new, Japanese and supercharged....this all sounded good, until the immortal words, three cylinder engine :-(
So away I went in my Nissan Micra, and in fact I was surprised by just how quick it was, with 97bhp it doesn't hang around...which is good as someone might see you driving it.
I can't comment on how economic it was as every time I accelerated the fuel range dropped to 18 miles....I don't think they expect the average Micra driver to use the redline as a gear change indicator. So, in summary, if you're looking for a quick car that drives badly, looks awful, and generally leaves you feeling disappointed, then the Micra is for you......and no, I'm not on commission
It was a Frankie and Benny's breakfast today, and for a change our sausage, egg and bacon muffins actually came with sausage....this was absent last time...and very nice it was too. In fact had I not eaten a dairy milk before I left home, I could probably have finished it
I finished acquiring my foreign currency today, well I say acquiring, that sort of implies theft....so it was the right word. But in all seriousness I did hold up the Post Office
queue with questions about their pre pay credit cards which I duly purchased and loaded with some dollars. I believe it was the great philosopher Aloe Blacc that once said 'I need a dollar, a dollar, a dollar is what I need......hey hey'....
.....well he's clearly not visited New York recently as I believe a dollar, dollar, a dollar...wouldn't buy you very much....not even a hot dog.....as a side note, I always eat hot dogs in less than sex seconds for the same reason I eat bananas at speed
I'm not really sure what happened to this afternoon, it seems to have disappeared in a haze of dairy milk, mini eggs (for protein ;-) and TV. Although to be fair I did have to go and collect my car from the garage so that took some time
I filled my fuel tank up today, the first time in 24 days. I used to fill up 3 times a month, so I think subconsciously I've either started driving less or driving more sensibly.......I'm driving less
I could regale you with the story of my drive home at 2am Sunday morning, but to be honest I find it boring to type it so I doubt it would be interesting to read
My wife has returned from her 2 nights away today, so I'm sure we'll shortly be dealing with a very excited 3 year old....luckily I have mini eggs, sugar always calms children down.....right.....Right..... :-/
She's off out tonight to a Body Shop party and these 3 things individually sound ok. Bodies....yep, I like them. Shopping.......hmmm yeah it's ok, and who doesn't like Party's.......unless their political....they can kiss my grits. But for some reason the combination of all 3 delivers the kind of excitement that can only be achieved by driving a Nissan Micra
It is at this point, and with the vivid scarring of today's motoring that I shall leave you with some pictures. A mug that would fit in well in most workplaces, an accurate political reflection from my town and the best wall/tree combination you'll see today
Bye bye for now
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