Yesterday was my first day back at work. It didn’t start well.
As I was reversing out of the garage, I heard a thwang, and then noticed the aerial on the car waving at me through the windscreen. CRAP, I thought. I stopped the car to view the damage, thought about cutting it off as it was only held on by a piece of copper wire, but decided that a piece of tape or two would hold it. Upstairs, I went, but on the way, decided to close the garage door. CRAP, I didn’t reverse out far enough probably because I was disconcerted to see a piece of my car waving at me.
I nearly had an extra stripe across the bonnet with a matching contour. Tape retrieved, I proceeded to ‘fix’ – in the loosest definition of that word – the aerial. It seemed like it would hold, and in fact did, but I’ll keep you posted on that.
The new decoration on my car
So then I moved the car back far enough to close the garage. Garage closed, I proceeded to start the car, again, but as I was doing that, the gate, which is a very large, very hard, very wide gate swung outwards towards my car (you can see it in the picture above). Oh CRAP! I thought. And had to get out of the car again!
So my first day, I broke my aerial and nearly dinged my car twice and that was before I got out of the driveway. It does not bode well for the year.
But then, it can only go uphill which is the direction of the driveway.