Tuesday - June 02, 2009

Damned inconsiderate liberal moron put a ding in our car. I’m just assuming it was a lib. Don’t know

Since I never saw it happen I wouldn’t know but it somehow feels better to blame a libtard.

A few days ago I wrote about the feeling of going one step forward and two back.  Never finished the thought or the post I wanted to do.
So doing it now. 

A few week ago our old car gave up the ghost. Head gasket went and the block most likely cracked. Frankly I was glad.  I don’t drive here and so the wife has the extra burden and the old car was hard to steer. No P.Steering on the thing and very hard to pull the wheels when parking, caused a lot of problems for her not to mention pain due to back problem. So here was a great opportunity to get another (used) car but one with power steering but not auto transmission.
It’s a 2001 Rover with 40,000 miles on it. Local car.

We’re kind of lucky in that for many years, the cars owned by MIL were always serviced by one guy, and a right nice chap he is.  He comes to the house and does the work here, that is, things like oil changes and general services.

If he has to bring the car to the service station, he leaves his in our drive and takes our car in.  Over the years he’s been the one to find cars as needed so that the wife’s mom didn’t have to submit to used car salesmen and be cheated more then likely.  That was her personal feeling anyway.  That a lone woman and aging as well, was always at the mercy of unscrupulous sales ppl.

Work is done in what spare time he has, and he never asked for a set fee. Unbelievable isn’t it?  He wouldn’t set a fixed price but would trust the mil and later the wife, to pay what they felt was reasonable.  The car that died btw wasn’t picked out by him.  It was an old banger owned by the wife’s late uncle.  The car before that failed the MOT, which is the yearly test that must be done much like the smog test you guys get done every year. Except this MOT thingy a lot more involved and ya have to pass to get the car re-registered. Well, the old car had lots wrong after all the years and it was rusted underneath and so my wife got her uncle’s car.  Which lasted about two years. 
Funny (but not as in ha,ha) thing about that car.  Nigel, that’s our mechanic, picked it up and brought it in to the place where the MOT tests are done and the car passed, at a cost of £50.00. I think it was 50 anyway.  As I said, I don’t drive here but due to wife’s back problem and also how cramped that old garage is, I usually back the car out of the garage for her and she’s okay after that.

I’d noticed something not right about the old thing and on occasion, on startup, it didn’t sound right. At one point I simply thought it might be timing but I am not a mechanic and so called on Nigel.  Once he told us what he found, we asked him to hunt for a car for us and nursed the old one along for a couple of weeks.

So, the day came and on a bright Sat. morning at 10:20 he brought over this Rover for us to view.
We both liked it and it fit our needs and we agreed to buy it. 
It needed service and a new battery and since he couldn’t do it that day, we agreed to buy and he took it away and returned it waxed and new battery and all in order on the following Saturday.

Five days later when we parked downtown due to a doctor’s appointment, that’s when we got it.
Our first dent and naturally we weren’t there when it happened.

A total careless jerk who more then likely shouldn’t be on the road to begin with, must have either pulled out or someone pulled in, who knows.  It isn’t a huge dent or anything but it is big enough for me to see every time I get in on the passenger side. It’s at the top of the door just about in line with the outside mirror.  Damn good thing we always remember to fold those in when parking. Couldda been worse I guess.

How come we never seem to catch these inconsiderate slobs?  Yeah I know. Get over it. There’s worse then that in this world.  They’re called liberals.

I’ll bet that’s who crashed into our car. (it was a crash to me) A liberal must have done it.

Posted by peiper     on 06/02/2009 at 02:02 PM   
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