Driving Miss Crazy

So in goes the car for it’s M.O.T. and annual service, couple of minor problems that I mentioned to the mechanic were the interior light, bulb blown, and a problem with the front passenger side electric window, which had rather suddenly stopped working.

Was advised that the window may be a problem, could be the motor, but hopefully just a broken wire, he said it was really unusual and that if they break it is usually the driver’s side as that gets much more usage.

Anyway away I went leaving “the Flash” in his capable hands.

On return at the end of the day, M.O.T. and service fine, just needed a couple of new wiper blades, new bulb in interior OK, and then he gave a little smirk!

Now at this point I had that sinking feeling that this was going to be a story to be added to my two other epic car fails:-

So I not long after I got “the Flash” I was in my local supermarket car park with a huge shopping trolley full of stuff, pressing the remote on the key to open the door and nothing was happening, well except for a lot of heavy duty swearing, my mother would definitely not have been proud!

Just as I was beginning to curse anew, as I also couldn’t get the key in the lock, my partner chimed in with, “actually I don’t think this is our car”.

And it wasn’t ours, it was the same make, model, colour, year and very closely matched number plate but it wasn’t our car. Our car was two spaces away the other side of a big van!!!!!

My best goof however is the one from way back when I owned  a saloon car and out of the blue I noticed this banging noise every time I turned right, it didn’t seem to happen all the time just on prolonged bends and cornering, all very mysterious.

So after checking the entire car for something loose, and looking at all the bits I knew how to look at I sought a professional opinion about the problem. Turned out to be a bent mudflap!!!!!

Back to the present, by the car, in the mechanics garage, with nowhere to hide from another embarrassment.

About the electric window, he said, thought I’d test it out before I disassembled the entire car door. It wouldn’t work, he said, because you had locked it!!!!!

How was I to know, that I had, at some point, inadvertently, pressed a window locking button, that I hadn’t even realised was there.

 

We will never speak of these things again!!