Sunday, May 18th, 2008...7:32 pm
Some art, and then a sad story in which Zoe becomes the butt of internet jokery
We got our friend Byrd to jazz up the suburban sedan a little recently with a tasteful car tattoo:
You may notice a bit of problem with that front panel there. That would be because on Friday I managed to drive into a bulldozer.
We were both going very slowly. I would hate to see what a fast bulldozer could do.
I am fairly sure that some of my answers to the insurance company’s questions will be appearing on one of those terrible “Things Idiot Drivers say to their Insurance Company” lists, viz:
“How would you describe the damage to the other vehicle?”
“Minimal. It was a bulldozer.”“And what colour was the bulldozer?”
“Whaddaya reckon?”
“I’ll just put down ‘yellow’, will I love?”
Jethro was in the car with me but everyone’s OK. Not the car though. The car is not OK.
All of a sudden the sign on the ATM at the supermarket is not so funny as it was when I took this photoa few days ago:
18 Comments
May 19th, 2008 at 8:35 am
Ouch.
Cool tatt though.
May 19th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
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(meant to be a heart)
May 19th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
(but died in the arse thx to internet savageness.)
May 19th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
If the engine runs and the headlamps work, I reckon you should keep it. With the skull & flame job, it’s got a killer beyond-thunderdome look.
To the ACT Drag Strip with your vehicle!
May 19th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Oh Zoe. At least the bulldozer was moving… I always seem to hit stationary objects which makes them far harder to blame.
May 19th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Bugger. Can you not redeem it at all? The paint job is fab! I was glad to hear everyone involved was OK, unless the bulldozer driver had to be carted off with head injuries or something…
May 19th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Oh! That looks awful (the front end, not the car tatt.) I’m so glad you and Jethro were OK!
*shudders*
I hope you at least keep the panel, like a friend of mine who has had an FB panel with a wonderful car tatt, in the garden for about 30 years!!
May 20th, 2008 at 11:31 am
So putting tatts on your car doesn’t actually make it tough, only look tough?
May 20th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Hope it’s not going to be too expensive to fix. Damn bulldozer drivers.
May 20th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Do dozers have insurance??
May 21st, 2008 at 9:05 pm
At least you now have a car with a mouth. A talking car.
and a great story that I reckon you can tell until you die – the story will only get better with time.
tell us about the time you stacked into a dozer gran…
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:42 pm
The funniest photo I saw involving an ATM was one a friend took years ago – her friend twists around to look at the camera. On the ATM she is using, there is a sign which read “WARNING! You may be photographed using this ATM”
I’m laughing as I type.
May 23rd, 2008 at 11:25 am
Bugger!
May 23rd, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Well, as someone who managed to do both ends of their Camry at once, I can sympathise.
Look at it this way, bingled undriveable cars cost almost nothing to run.
May 28th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
I congratulate you Zoe as an early-adopter of a zero-emissions vehicle.
June 9th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
I congratulate Cristy on knowing the difference between stationary and stationery. So many people don’t.
June 22nd, 2008 at 1:55 pm
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July 27th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
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