Four Car Family

We bought another car today. This is becoming something of a hobby for us, though not one we have time to give much thought to. Drove up to Manly (across spit bridge – not a great bridge as such, just a fantastic setting) and bought a 1997 Honda CRV for $9,500. It’s manual transmission which I’m actually disappointed about, because despite my previous procrastinations, I was getting quite used to the laziness of the automatic, especially on the hill-starts up and down the eastern suburbs.

It’s a good car with a full service history (every 10,000 km for goodness sake!) but process of purchasing it was more painful than usual as Ella was in a “mischevious” mood and had to be contained inside a Toyota Rav 4 for over half an hour (in a thunderstorm) while Darren did that thing men do – poking about at the car with no particular agenda and taking it for a test drive. The only minus point is that we can’t collect it until Friday because it’s due a service, so we had to have another discussion about whether the hire car was going back tonight and whether this was leaving me with Illawong Jack while Darren works a 12 hour shift on Thursday. The hire car stays – Darren had to start it four times this evening. Personally I think Jack’s age merits a “do not resuscitate” order but that’s the medic for you.