So, picked the V6 Mondeo up yesterday (many thanks to Petel for the lift). I got to W'Bro at 11:10, so had a bit of time on me hands and thought I'd go for a stroll into town. What a nice place and what pleasant, civilised people. Whenever I made eye contact with someone, they smiled! My immediate thought was "Fuckin hell, this must be the capital of 'Care In The Community'!" Then the old paranoia kicked in and I wondered whether some cunt had shaved me eyebrows or applied some make-up (as in "Dead Mans Shoes") when I dozed for thirty seconds on the train, but No! Where I live, if you make eye contact in the street with anyone who's under the age of ninety, the look you get back says: 'Who the fuck are you gawping at at?'. When I went to cross the road in a side street, twice, cagers who were slowing for the T-junction, slowed *right down* and motioned me to cross. The first time, I thought "What's his fucking angle?" It just wouldn't happen up here, where the attitude is "I'm in the fucking car pal so keep out me way". I also saw, in the hour I was there, at least a dozen "biker" types on Harleys and the like and thought maybe they 'policed' the place. When I met up with Petel, he assured me it wasn't as nice as I thought and that there are some *real* bad estates dotted around. I must have got there before they'd emerged from their 'White Lightning' induced hangovers! I was a bit apprehensive about the car after Lozzos warning of Pikeys and what-have-you, but when we got to the house, it was a well kept bungalow and the dude selling the car was a late twenties geezer who was well pissed off that it hadn't made more on e-bay. He struck me as a bit of a middle-class dweeb, but went right up in my estimation when he said he *had* to let it go 'cause he'd put a deposit down on a ZZR6 and needed the cash. Top man then! One thing the cunt didn't tell me is that when you lock the car, you can still open the off-side passengers door!( Any ideas anyone?) Oh right! I don't expect to have this car in my possession for long then! (Am taking the 'V6' badges off to discourage the fuckers). now I'm not one to wax lyrical about cars....................but what a lovely sound out the V6 and not bad performance either.
