Haha it was the cleanest I've ever seen it. Even had petrol in the tank. Not sure how much of that was to do with the post I put on Facebook - where we have mutual friends - and the shocked comments made there
As for my car - which I now have, it is nose to nose with the camper exchanging stories - I love this car, and have done since the day I got it. It has never let me down, it is fun to drive, it parks anywhere, it's quick, and light on petrol, and it has buckets of personality. It is also unusual, there aren't very many of them around. I like that too.
Second hand cars have very little value in the UK. Second hand cars in Spain do keep their value (no rust) and are quite expensive. I could have sold mine for perhaps £2K. I could have bought the left hand drive version of the same make and model, same age, for 5K euros. I have no idea whether the owner has looked after it as I have looked after mine. I have no idea whether it is as cheerful and friendly as mine. It did have a higher mileage. And 5K euros will be far better spent on the house, instead all I have to find is the money to to get my car matriculated, plus what I paid the bawbag to bring it to Spain, plus the 5 hours of my life I wasted today thanks to the bawbag.
I might just get this whole explanation printed off in both English and Spanish and make laminated copies because I will be saying it a lot otherwise.
The only thing that worries me, after a month of driving the van, is that my car seems to have shrunk. It seems smaller than before.
Last year I visited my sister, who also lives in Spain (different part, nearer Daniela) and at the end of the holiday she asked if I would mind taking the coach back to the airport, which was a fair trek away.
Of course I don't mind, I said. I even paid for it without thinking twice about it, although she did offer to pay
Now if I had been this guy I would have stolen her car and taken it to the airport and told her she could collect it from there.
B, he will have left it in the car park. Probably overnight. Part of that 100 euros I reckon this will cost me will be getting it out of parking. He's not a nice man when he feels he has been wronged and he has convinced himself he has been. Total bampot.
Other Scots words that fit like a glove - bawbag and numpty
The whole problem blew up because the van is starting to complain a bit about everything being asked of it and taking them to the airport would have had to be in the van, the car is too small for 3 people, luggage and a dog. I asked if I could instead put them on the coach to save myself the 160 km round trip. He decided I was saying I would leave them to find their own way to the airport and when I texted back saying no but I thought they might like to explore the coastal towns he said I was changing plans every five minutes and he no longer trusted me and was taking the car to Malaga. WTF?
I also half suspect this was his intention all along and he had been waiting for me to say something, anything, he could twist out of context and into an excuse
Very philosophical of you, and everything DOES happen for a reason. And you're right on one thing, if it had all gone to plan he could have been inviting himself for holidays because I 'owed' him and that would have been horrendous.
Should say that's why I was angry. All burned off now.
But I still have to meet him at 6 and be polite until the keys and parking ticket are safely in my clutches. Then walk rapidly away before I say something I will really regret!
I'd rather scare him than actually do anything, perhaps they could lurk until I have the keys and parking ticket, then follow him closely until he actually publicly wets himself?
I didn't say a couple of hundred. A hundred. Taxi to the coach, coach to the airport, spring the car out of parking, drive 80km back and he did accuse me of making the car go dead which could be ominous.
Then there COULD be the vet to repair the dog, who will have had a couple of hours to get into mischief, or the cat, but I'm thinking positive thoughts.
I'm obviously being totally and completely unreasonable just because I paid several hundred to have my car brought to me and now have to do some complicated hopping around to actually get it.
Obviously no-one else would find it even remotely annoying.
Money will be extremely tight so the extra hundred euros I am likely to spend collecting the car I paid to have delivered to me will rankle a little bit longer.
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