Denied Car Hire
After what happened the last time I tried car hire, I wasn’t particularly looking forwards to hiring another one when I headed up North yesterday for a meeting. In retrospect, I probably should’ve tried a different place rather than going to the same one I went to last time.
This is what’s known in the trade as a schoolboy error. Last time I took something from this car hire place, I pranged it on a tree. It wasn’t my fault, but I don’t think they’re my biggest fans right now. Maybe I should have thought about this before I rocked up there with the company credit card, but if you’ve been reading this blog for a while you’ll know that I don’t DO forward planning.
Looks Like I’m Never Getting Car Hire Again
I went the car hire route the other day when I went to visit my parents. Suffice to say, it didn’t go too well and I don’t think I’m going to be allowed to rent another one for a while.
Not my hire car
Dear Chavs – Ruin Your Tyres At A Reasonable Hour
Normally, if I ask someone the question ‘You know what I hate?’ I get one of two answers – ‘Everything’ or ‘Chavs’. The thing is, neither of these are wrong, it’s just a question of emphasis: I appear to hate everything, but especially chavs. There’s another level though – I really really really hate the chavs which were ruining their tyres by wheel spinning in our car park at 3am.
Some Things You Just Can’t Fix
I’ve got a bit of a reputation amongst my friends as something of a Mr. Fixit, especially when it comes to electronic devices. I have never found a piece of computer software I can’t figure out in a short space of time, can almost instantly work out how almost any mobile phone or other gadget does just about everything before I’ve finished my coffee and I’m always the person my friends call when their computers, TVs or DVD players go wrong. Unfortunately, when I was called to my friend’s place last night to have a look at a used Honda that she’s looking at buying, I didn’t have a clue.
Parental Competition
My dad and I compete over pretty much everything, always have done. It goes back years: when I was a kid and we’d play board games together, he just couldn’t let me win and this continued through much of my youth and even through to now. We would compete fiercely on video games until my mum banned us from playing Street Fighter 2 together because she was sick of the shouting, we compete over who’s got the best gadgets and now he thinks he’s won because he just bought a used Lexus.
Doing Things The Easy Way For Once
Few things annoy me more than public transport – OK, that’s a bit of a lie, lots of things annoy me, but public transport’s well up there – but having sold my car it looks like I’m stuck with it, but then I had an idea – car hire
I know, sometimes my genius astounds even me. I’m visiting my parents this weekend and they live a fair way away; a six hour train journey if everything goes well and how often does that happen? It’s only a four hour drive though (less than that if I’m a little bit liberal with the speed limits), so I’ve decided to hire a car and drive there rather than risk the inevitable annoyance of the public transport, miss my mum’s excellent cooking and go to the chip shop for dinner – it’d be the same as being at home.
Car Insurance Fails AGAIN!
That’s right, it’s another car insurance rant. A couple of weeks back when I sold my car, I cancelled my insurance and while I was on the phone to them, the guy at the call centre told me that my account was in credit by £38.74 and that they would send me a cheque – probably the only positive point I’ve found in the whole process of my dealings with them. The cheque arrives, I put it in my bank and wait for it to clear and then when checking it today, I find they’ve stopped it.
Audi A5 Cabriolet Too Cool For School
The new Audi A5 Cabriolet is here! It replaces the A4 Cabriolet, which proved very popular, but the A5 is set to be even more successful.
Audi’s usual elegance is taken to new heights as the A5 Cabriolet’s sleek lines are a joy to behold. And as with all other Audi’s in their current range the luxury touches are there for all to see, and if lucky enough, use.
The interior is a thing of ergonomic beauty, the sound system will be sweet music to your ears (as long as Robbie Williams CD’s are nowhere near the CD player), the automatic parking brake makes parking that bit easier also, so the Missus can’t bend your ear…
Why Everyone Should Drive A Lexus
Seriously, everyone should drive a Lexus, especially my neighbours – and it’s not just because I want to live somewhere where everybody’s rich and there are lots of cool cars around, either. It’s because they do this:
Which would mean that I wouldn’t go home on my lunchbreak and find this stuck to the front of my car, along with a lovely new dent and horrible green paint transfer.
Because There’s No Such Thing As Too Much Carbon Fibre
There really isn’t; it’s the coolest thing in the world – it’s black, it’s shiny and people don’t look at you like you’re a pervert if you rock some. Carbon fibre is the ultimate accessory at the moment; be it on watches, iPod cases, sunglasses or even cars.
Manufacturers have been using carbon fibre components for prestige cars for a while, making them lighter and hopefully faster, but Pagani have gone one step further with their new Zonda R – a car with a full carbon fibre and titanium body.
There’s no denying that the car looks absolutely beautiful. Aside from the gorgeous, shimmering texture of the carbon fibre and titanium skin, the body shape is sleek, with all the right curves and angles in all the right places and the lightweight build gives the Zonda R a bit of help achieving a top speed of 233mph, and it sounds just as good as it looks.
The exhausts have no silencers – watch the video below; you know it’s coming from a mile away.
Weighing in at €1.2 million (about £1million), the Pagani Zonda R is way beyond the price range of most mere mortals, and it’s a track only car with limited numbers being made, but I daresay this thing of beauty will live on in posters and computer wallpapers long after all of those are sold.