Gingerjo’s Blog

Obviously my mind is fully occupied with excitement over my new car.  I received my smart car Concept from Signs Express today.  It looks fantastic - a little diagram of the stickers as they’ll look when they’ve been applied to the car. I can’t wait! Unfortunately though, I’m going to have to wait until next Thursday or Friday I think because the Smart Manchester workshop needs a couple of days to check the car over and Signs Express need a couple of days to apply the stickers.  Once this is all done it’s mine.  Whoo hoo!!

Well, it’s now completely confirmed. A black and white smart fortwo pulse with automatic transmission is winging it’s way towards Manchester and me as I write. I’m very excited. My old car (well, not that old really) has passed it’s MOT like a little good ‘un. It just needed a new front tyre. The MOT guys also refit my front windscreen wipers as the stupid girl from Halfords had fit them upside down or back to front or something. I wouldn’t mind but it cost me two quid to get Halfords to fit them. What a rip off!

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After much umming and arghing Smart Manchester and I have finally reached a compromise. We’ve priced up resprays (starts at £1000), buying a complete set of brand new panels in green (also approx £1000), sticker packages, upping the spec etc. In the meantime, however, I’ve been furkeling on the internet and found a set of smart car zebra stickers for £50 a set. Bargain and just what I wanted - a funky little car.

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Oh no, head in hands. Apparently the car with bright green panels that I bought on Sunday does not exist. It is registered with another dealership who has sold my green panels to someone else, replaced them with grey panels, and failed miserably to update the computer records. The complete gits!

Now I’m seriously sulking and trying to decide what to do. I really only want a green one.

Mark dragged me off to see the latest in the Rocky franchise on Saturday night. I have to confess I really did think it would be a contender for one of the worst films every made - it had all the potential - I mean a story about a fighter coming out of retirement because of a computer simulated fight that said he’d win.

Actually, it wasn’t bad. Quite engaging in fact with a worthy and uplifting central message. I wouldn’t go so far as to say it was a good movie, but it was entertaining and made you feel bright and perky at the end. I’d give it 7 out of 10.

I’ve had my Ford Fiesta for just shy of three years now. It’s been a good car, comfy to drive, nippy in traffic, extremely reliable, great in fact, but now it needs MOTing I feel that I fancy a change. I’m not making any other major changes this year - no change in job (at the moment) and no moving to a completely different part of the country. Normally I would do these things every two or three years. I expect a major upheaval every so often.

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