The weather here in Melbourne is miserable, to match the mood of the people as we're in our 4th stage 4 (harshest) Covid-19 lockdown. Cold, wet and miserable. At 1am, I heard a loud bang and worried that one of my bikes had been blown over by the gale force winds. In my slightly overdosed state I decided that it'd be better if I checked in the morning, reasoning that if one of my bikes had fallen over, it couldn't fall any further, even though my only worry was that I haven't yet insured my little Suzuki T350.
I woke up feeling pretty ill, so rang my doctor and turns out I'm having withdrawal symptoms from an anti-depressant that I'd decided wasn't working. So there I was sitting there feeling sorry for myself with the shakes, when the wife told me that she had some bad news for me. I said, "It's not the T350 is it?" No, she said. "Oh my God, not the K2?". No again. ""Not the K0?, tell me it's not the K0??" And this went on until she told me to shut up, and said some kid had smashed his car into my "Daily Driver", a 2009 Mitsubishi Outlander that I've had since 2017, that I bought from the original owner.
"Oh" I said, "Did you get his details?". "Yes, he knocked on the door and apologised profusely, and gave me all his details". No worries, I couldn't care less, it was a nice car, but as the steering/suspension has been damaged, it'll probably get written off by the insurance company as it's not worth fixing. That's fine, the insured value will cover the cost of buying a good used "Ute", a sedan based pickup. I've wanted one for a while now for picking up bikes and parts, so it's a win/win.
I remembered to ring the insurance company and insured the T350. The guy I spoke to said, "You've now got 20 bikes insured with us!" I thought to myself, "I better check my policy, I'm pretty sure I won 27?"
My car:
Mitsubishi damage 9 Jun 2021 1 by
Terry Prendergast, on Flickr
Mitsubishi damage 9 Jun 2021 2 by
Terry Prendergast, on Flickr
His car:
Mitsubishi damage 9 Jun 2021 4 by
Terry Prendergast, on Flickr
