New car!
Today I drove my old car to Mantello Holden over at Fawkner, and Ken drove my new car home!
If he hadn't been able to do that, it wouldn't have mattered - I would have driven it myself, even though I'm a bit nervous about driving an automatic car after 20 years of driving manual cars. It is still a Barina after all, with basically the same controls, although the new one has a lot more techo. stuff that I have to get used to! Ken really enjoyed driving it; like most blokes he just loves driving something different for a change. Tomorrow I will have to get to grips with it and take it for a spin, as the longer I leave it, the less I will feel like driving it! I hate change, even if it is for the better :-(
On the way home, we stopped off at TyrePower in Eltham, whose mechanics have looked after our cars for years. The guys had told me to bring it it to show them, so we did. While we were there, I coaxed one of them to fit the seat covers on the seats for me. I had someone take them off the old car over at Mantellos, but didn't like to ask them to put the covers on the new car, as they are fiddly and it takes a while to get them right. So I have my leopard print covers on the seats, my blue crocheted rug over the back seat, and my bits and pieces in the glove box. I used to have a little blue and yellow felt whale hanging from the rear vision mirror, which always annoyed Ken, and he said "you're not going to put that whale thing up in your new car are you?" I didn't reply, but when I held it up to see how it would look, I decided not to hang it there, as the colour is all wrong for the new car. So Ken got his way, lol!
Here I am with Dean, the salesman - who had just shown us how to work all the gadgets.
If he hadn't been able to do that, it wouldn't have mattered - I would have driven it myself, even though I'm a bit nervous about driving an automatic car after 20 years of driving manual cars. It is still a Barina after all, with basically the same controls, although the new one has a lot more techo. stuff that I have to get used to! Ken really enjoyed driving it; like most blokes he just loves driving something different for a change. Tomorrow I will have to get to grips with it and take it for a spin, as the longer I leave it, the less I will feel like driving it! I hate change, even if it is for the better :-(
On the way home, we stopped off at TyrePower in Eltham, whose mechanics have looked after our cars for years. The guys had told me to bring it it to show them, so we did. While we were there, I coaxed one of them to fit the seat covers on the seats for me. I had someone take them off the old car over at Mantellos, but didn't like to ask them to put the covers on the new car, as they are fiddly and it takes a while to get them right. So I have my leopard print covers on the seats, my blue crocheted rug over the back seat, and my bits and pieces in the glove box. I used to have a little blue and yellow felt whale hanging from the rear vision mirror, which always annoyed Ken, and he said "you're not going to put that whale thing up in your new car are you?" I didn't reply, but when I held it up to see how it would look, I decided not to hang it there, as the colour is all wrong for the new car. So Ken got his way, lol!
Here I am with Dean, the salesman - who had just shown us how to work all the gadgets.
posted by Gina E. | 12:37 am
2 Comments:
Like the colour of your new car because it is the same colour as the new car I bought last year...a Suzuki Alto. I have only ever driven an automatic car and think you brave to have driven a manual all these years. X
That's what I thought too: what a pretty colour. That's the most important thing, in my view! I would never dare to drive an automatic! Manuals are what most people have here.
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