What have I gone and done?
I’ve made the sacrifice to end all sacrifices, I’ve agreed with Lucy to sell my Audi so that we can get a car she can learn to drive in!
Don’t get me wrong, my Audi is nothing special, by modern standards anyway, but to me, it is a lovely V6 engine that just purrs along. The problem is that I do not do enough miles to really justify having a car, let alone that car, but it was my little piece of motor-head.
So when Lucy said she was keen to learn to drive, we thought about it and the insurance company were not too happy about insuring her, so it had to be a smaller car. Which unfortunately meant that something had to give, after a few days sitting there I decided it was me who had to give. I’ve let Lucy do all the looking and choosing and this evening we put the deposit down on a VW Beetle.
Have to admit that on the looks alone, Lucy has made a good choice, not sure about anything else, I’m not really mechanically minded, but I checked, and it had 4 wheels, one steering wheel and some seats. Good enough for me.
Of course, I will miss the luxury and power of my Audi and yes, it was not the best to look at, but it will be nice to be driven around for once!