Meant to be May 5, 2010
Posted by Sharny in : Life , add a commentI’m not really a superstitious person. I don’t beleive in black cats giving bad luck, or breaking mirrors, or whatever archaic ideas still have some hold on a select minority of the population. I’m also not religious at all, since I see the two as pretty much the same.
Sometimes however, I have to acknowledge when the universe just seems to want something to happen. I’d say a pretty good example is my car. I got this car, a ’93 Vauxhall Astra hatchback, back in February, after accidently haggling it down to the price I was originally willing to pay. It cost me £100, which gives you an idea of the kind of quality we’re looking at.
It had a few problems I knew about, like tires needing replacing, hole in the exhaust etc. Fixing those initial things cost me just over £200, but £300 for a working car, pretty good I’d say. Taking it to MOT I fully expected a list as long as my arm of things to fix and to send it straight to the scrap yard. I was astonished when I heard that there were literally only three things that needed fixing. One washer jet wasn’t working, a headlamp was dim and there was a sharp edge due to rust.
It was only after looking through the extensive list of things that the MOT checks that I realised what a miracle it was that this car, a car only three years younger than me, with nearly 150,000 miles on the clock, was actually looking like it was going to live on for at least a little bit longer. I fixed all of the issues for less than £30 and scraped through my MOT.
It seems like I may have managed to patch the hole in the radiator through use of some £5 radiator stop leak, despite having put that job off for about two months, fingers crossed.
It looks like this car may actually be taking us on the road trips we talked about taking in the future, in some other car, after this one’s inevitable (so we thought) demise.
After over coming all of that it would really seem like this car, the first and only car I even looked at, was indeed meant to be. It’s certainly a car to be remembered.
