NewZealandCoach’s Weblog

lol, a pertinent topic, thanks ZT

Had the car in to be serviced today, and to have some work done. After waiting with bated breath for a couple of hours had a quote, which was about a thousand dollars *under* what we’d originally been told.

I know!! I thought I’d won Lotto!!

So now I have this car in perfect running order. I was tempted to put my foot down on the way home, just because. But unfortunately I can’t put my head down in the back and blame someone else when I get caught speeding, which is a bit of a pain really. There is no one else I can blame if I give in to that temptation and go for a blast down Te Rapa Straight. I’d get done, I’d get fined, I’d lose my licence. Then I couldn’t go to work, I couldn’t take the kids to night sports games (they get the buses for the practises in the day time),and all the other mundane things I use the car for. I couldn’t work as a teacher, because The Rules say that teachers have to be whiter than white. They certainly can’t get caught speeding like a teenager and doing donuts.  To be honest, I couldn’t stand up in front of a class again if I’d behaved that way, whatever the professional consequences were.  I just couldn’t do it.  However much I felt the need to have 10 seconds of adrenaline instead of a nice tame cup of coffee …

anyway, this car. I’ve owned cars since I was 19, had full insurance the whole time, never made a claim. Never caused an accident, never killed anyone. Never run over any old ladies, never hit any children, never abducted anyone in the boot. All I’ve done is paid car payments, paid the insurance, bought the tyres and replaced the bits that’ve fallen off. Spent hours in the weekends washing and polishing (Liquid Diamond!).

In fact when it comes down to it, I am a boring person really. Go to work, get paid, budget it all out and pay for what I need. If I can’t afford it – if I didn’t work for it – I don’t get it, and neither does anyone else in my house.

Wonder why the government sees it so differently …

and that is my first and final post on anything remotely to do with politics. I will leave that to ZenTiger in future