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// Filed under: Life on Monday January 01st 2007, 1:55 am So. It’s 2 a.m. on New Year’s Day. I’ve soberly volunteered to drive four slightly inebriated friends from our party back to their local slumbering hole. We pile into my car and race off in the manner of young folk, scraping the underside of my beautifully heavily-laden car across the kerb as we do so. Ten minutes later down the road, smoke is billowing out of my bonnet and my temperature gauge is screaming red murder at me. I swear like a fishwife, and yank the car off the road into the service entrance of a nursing home for inspection. Of course, the hood is smoking hot, so we have to leave it for a while. Obviously the radiator is somehow borked, so calls are made to the RAC (roadside assistance). My friends and I wait patiently for two hours until the car arrives (it’s a very busy New Year’s Day). The learned RAC man takes one look inside my bonnet and casually informs me that my car won’t be going anywhere without an entirely new radiator. So. He hands me a tow slip, calls me in a tow truck and takes off again. Half an hour later, the tow truck arrives and together we manhandle my burgundy beast onto its back and drive off into the night, leaving my sobered-up friends to take our other car back to the slumberhole and return to gather the rest of our now-slightly-less-merry band. Of course, nobody is less merry than myself, as I arrive home at 5 a.m. on New Year’s Day looking at a $400 replacement radiator, not to mention the steering fix, oil filter, brake pads and general complete overhaul my car’s been needing for a time. Happy New Year, everyone! // 3 Comments
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Tinkling Koala says:
January 2, 2007 at 10:35 am
Grey says:
January 9, 2007 at 6:06 pm
ash says:
January 19, 2007 at 4:23 am