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Friday, July 1, 2011

Bloody Tourists Part 3


The 'company car'

2 colleagues and I were out in the work van visiting schools and we had slowed to pull out of a side road onto the main ring road when a couple of tourists on a scooter started gesturing at us.  One was pointing to our right rear tyre and indicating via sign language that it was flat.  So I got out to have a look.  I scoffed when I saw it and promptly got back into the van.
"Jeez" I said, "We're not even riding on the rim yet!"  We chortled a loud belly laugh.
"Man, I drove half away around the island on my rim" Exclaimed Danielle, my colleague.
The tourists were giving us a funny look, and I'm sure we made a fine sight all laughing amongst ourselves in the van.
"Next they're going to tell us we have no tread left on the tyres!"  The hilarity continued.
When we had collected ourselves sufficiently to drive on we pulled out with a wave, and a hearty "You're in the islands now!"
The 'plush' interior
To fully understand the humour of the situation you have to see our work van, so I've provided some pictures here:

Bloody tourists.

To reiterate the point, Janine took our car for a warrant this afternoon.  $10 later, and being told that he'll "only check the lights and breaks because we only sold it to you 6 months ago" we drove off warrant issued and our front bumper duly reattached free of charge (it was sort of hanging off on the right hand side).  Gotta love it!




"Carpet? Who needs carpet?"

A big of a do-upper...
if such things actually existed here on the Rock!

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