What is your all time favorite automobile?
I loved her from the first moment I sat in the driver’s seat. I can’t explain it. I would drive that car anywhere, even on motorways.
During the menopause I suffered panic attacks, and as I don’t enjoy driving they really didn’t help, yet I would get in the car and calm down.
She developed a recurring problem, and I was lucky Tony was driving when she just stopped on us on a busy A road. The engine would go very rough, then normally correct, this time it got worse and worse, and he just managed to find an exit, and get into the car park for the services, when she just stopped. I would have been terrified if I was driving.
As it was the third time we decided to let her go, and I cried my eyes out. We went back later that day to say we’d try having her repaired again, but she’d already gone. I was so upset.
Odd how that happens. I had a BMW I loved in the same way. My craziest love was a red Fiat Panda. The perfect woman’s car. Not too big, great fun, lots of hidden compartments for bits and bobs, nipped through the traffic slipping through gaps that left bigger cars standing.
But the pièce de résistance? Instead of a glove box it had a reinforced cloth hammock, into which you just tossed your handbag and off you went. Should you need a handkerchief, when stopped of course, you could quickly and easily reach across and retrieve it. People laughed, but Fiat designed a car that worked for women.
And it went like a bomb in the days that it was traditional to ignore all speed limits But you never heard that from me, and it’s certainly not something I ever did, well not often…
Is that the time…gotta dash…if yesterday’s Christmas lunch was anything to go by I have another meal to prepare for the bin soon!
Hope you had a wonderful day yesterday. Hugs to those who didn’t.
Deb xx
Deb Hawken - Amorah 