Monday 26 January, 2004

Annoying damage

Oh bollocks. Some joker had bent my left side mirror in my car sometime over the weekend. We live fairly close to some nightclubs, so it's not uncommon to wake up in the middle of the night on a Friday or a Saturday to the monkey-like screaming of the drunken teens outside. One of their pastimes is to bend car mirrors into funny positions - I usually try to avoid parking on that side of road just because of this, but on Saturday after coming from our shopping trip there wasn't room anywhere else. I should have known better to look harder.

Usually it's not a big problem beyond annoyance, you just need to bend the mirror back - granted, this can sometimes be hard work and Dragon needs to do that for me. So this morning when I noticed the mirror I prepared myself to use both hands - but this was worse than usual. It moved quite easily - in fact, too easily... this time it had really broken, something had snapped inside. Now it hangs off my car like a dead fish, and is just as much use for observing traffic.

Now I need to book my car in my garage to get that fixed, and I really don't have time for this right now. Damaging other people's property and the entertainment value of it, I'll never understand.

Posted by kolibri at 26 January 09:23, 2004