Windfall

You get a £500 bonus at work — how do you spend it?

The big decision for half of my colleagues appears to have been XBox 360 or Playstation 3? Myself, I’ve opted for a front bumper respray. Of course, as soon as I said as much, I was told, quite earnestly, that I really need to stop thinking about cars so much. Hehe. Well, it made me laugh anyway. :)

Yes, I might well be chucking money away — I doubt the work will add the equivalent value to the car come the day I sell it — but it won’t half improve my enjoyment of the car. As it stands, the polka-dot affair I’ve got at the moment (courtesy of Bill Heaney’s crap finishing) makes my heart sink every time I approach the thing. In just a week’s time, I’m going to be smiling again instead. It’s been at least 6 months since that last happened (the lack of blogging here in that time is no coincidence) and maybe it’ll reinvigorate me full-stop. Dammit, I love driving too much to feel depressed about my car. Roll on the good times.

Oh, and it appears I was a little rash in saying that my exhaust bracket was merely a little rusty. Last night, the thing gave up the ghost. For the last mile before I got home, my heart never left my mouth, as I expected to hear a loud clatter of exhaust on asphalt. Instead, I just got exhaust on car underbody, but that was bad enough. Next time, I’ll inspect things a little more closely. Lesson learnt. Now I’ve just got a nervy 8-mile drive to the garage to get the bracket replaced. I think it could time to employ a wire coathanger in an unfamiliar role... *gulp*