As I trundled around the gallop before dawn yesterday morning, I foolishly thought that I had had a remarkably "mechanical incident" free few months. Foolish indeed.....
On the way to downtown Dunstall, I pulled into the services on the M5 to grab a Racing Post. No Racing Post. So I turned on my heels and ran back out to the garage forecourt....
No car. Sh*t !!! My effing car has been stolen. Can you believe how stupid I had been to leave the keys in the ignition. "But Officer, I was only rushing in for a newspaper"..... A split second of feeling completely helpless, trying to remember what belongings of note were in the car...
But then I spied, some 50 yards away, the bonnet of a car protruding out of a hedge. Sheepishly, I approached the hedge, to be greeted by the sight of a decimated brick wall beside the hedge. My car - but if it has careered into and smashed the wall, the damage is sure to be not inconsequential. Gingerly I walked around my vehicle, clambering over bits of splintered branches, and remarkably all seemed in perfect order. The smashed-up wall had not been my car's doing....
Starting the car, I extricated myself from the hedge - and proceeded northwards onto the M5 in an orderly fashion. Note to self - check that hand brake is fully engaged. I expect to see my car's antics on Sky Tv's next blockbuster series, "Cars with minds of their own....."
Some pleasing work at downtown Dunstall. A couple of eyecatching pieces of work. And then a perfectly satisfactory run from Phoenix Enforcer at Warwick. Softer ground and more of a trip and she will be winning again.
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