The date of collection of the ebay prize! Kris has insurance on the purchase ready to drive it home again. Steve is driving us up to collect it from Nottingham. Well it didnt really start off great.... i was late (oops) so running around like a blue arsed fly while Fi and Steve have a cuppa! But eventually we set off in Steves golf. Some way down the road I realise i have forgotten my mobile. Clever Slinky!
Boredom soon set in and so began 'Yellow Car Game' and the 'Your husband/wife Game'. After much hilarity and tears of laugher we arrive! It is decided that a trip to Ikea for meatballs is in order. We get there and find a ton of traffic! Clearly everyone is after meatballs today! Bored in the traffic, some toilet roll appears from somewhere and more hilarity ensues. Pics to follow!! Steve looks decidedly good in a toilet roll turban and the other car drivers clearly think we are mental. They are probably not far wrong!
After a delicious lunch of meatballs and chips we pop in to see Mat, Remus and Hera. The dogs are overjoyed to see me and i am almost loved to death. Another cuppa and its off to find the dude we bought from! The bloke for whom we have no name!!! We find his place and follow him in the car to where the vehicle is. Some really dodgey Nottingham estate! We were worried for our lives and safety! Eeeeek!
So Steve takes a look. If you could call it that! But it starts first time and so we hand over the cash. Fi and I climb aboard and off we go!!! Well after much noise and fun with the clutch control....... (well i have only driven an automatic for the last year and a half!!). We get to some traffic lights and i put on the handbreak. One problem, when the lights turn green i cant get the damn thing off! So Fiona is running round the inside of the car trying to release the handbreak while im driving! Oh so safe!! Eventually we get it off and head to the nearest fuel station.
After 10 minutes of all 3 of us looking I evenutally find the fuel cap release switch. Yes we all look rather sheepish! Well you know we never said we knew anything about cars!!!!! I hope this is not a case of starting as we mean to go on!
Anyways, on the road we go! Music up loud and lots of dancing in our seats! Fiona manages to get carpet burns from dancing in her seat and poor Steve gets a good view of Fiona flashing her Puppy Power!! Much more laughter and fun! But then she realises she cant find her phone...... We are now some 30 miles away from the fuel station where she is sure she left it...... Oh and its starting to snow too!
We decide to push on home and will find the number for the garage and ring them later. Through the snow, wind and rain we make it home. Minus a mobile and with aching sides from too much laughing. The car is named Big Burtha and in the words of Fiona 'shes got an ass u can rest a pint on each cheek and be used as a bike stand'.
You'll be pleased to hear that Fionas phone was eventually found under a seat in Burtha. Figures!
