i'm in love with my car

after a decidedly iffy friday the 13th, yesterday was a good day. for the first time in 7 off years of owning a car, i finally passed an mot first time around. for the last two years i've needed to shell out about £300 so a measly fifty odd was the stuff that dreams are made of. i always get a bit wary when it comes to problems with cars. the main issue being that i know very little about them apart from when it works and when it doesn't. which makes me a little vulnerable to the risk of getting ripped off. it always seems that the guys who work in garages are all about 17 and look exactly the kind of people we'd pick on me at school (and who probably still would today). excuse the sweeping generalisation. but you can also (or i can at least) imagine the whole thing descending into some kind of german twinky garage porn movie (based on the sketchy details and limited knowledge of such things i've acquired over the years). but, for better or worse, yesterday no such antics kicked off and the only buttons that got pushed where those needed to enter my pin, cough up the cash and drive off into the sunset! fingers crossed for next year.