Ouch!

27 Sep 2013 05:31 pm
curiouswombat: (Ouch!)
I've just had an unexpected afternoon off work... sadly because my car was dunched at lunchtime - with me in it. I'm OK - although I was very shaken at the time. I was turning off the road to go to our main work stores, checked the car behind me as I slowed to a stop, and he seemed to be decelerating, then there was an almighty 'bang' and he had accelerated into me. He was only a young man, accepted it was entirely his fault, and there was a witness - so no worries about that, but I was very shaken, and the work car is a bit second-hand.

I actually went on down the 20 yards to stores, where I was sat down, given a cup of tea, and as soon as my manager knew she came straight up and took me to A&E, waited with me, sorted out the car stuff, and brought me home. She also cancelled my afternoon clinic. A good manager!

A&E doctor declared me to have mild whiplash, gave me some anti-inflammatories, and predicted I will feel much stiffer tomorrow.

I'm pretty sure he is going to be proved right about that. But - I'm fine really.
curiouswombat: (Snoopy dancing - JudeBennet)
We've got our new car. It is very smart, gun-metal grey, high trim level, and a boot big enough to hold Belgium. The old one had an enormous load space, but this is even bigger! I think I will need a trained ferret to retrieve things for me...

The only point of argument is what we are going to call him - he is most certainly male, I think. I quite liked Gordon, but S2C vetoed it as he says there is no proof that the car is Gay. So probably something Czech, I think. (It is a Skoda - so actually made in the Czech Republic.)

For pretty pictures click here )

As you can see from the pictures, it has been a nice day - suddenly it is summer. Probably because it is the first TT practice tonight. So I will be busy baking for TT Teas for the next couple of weeks... For those new to this journal since June last year, I explained TT here in my journal in 2005 - it explains pretty well!

ETA - the car is called Minsc - after a character in Baldur's Gate. Pity our little car is called Po, rather than Boo, really!

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