Karma thing...... i reckon......
Were you ever an estate agent? Insurance Sales Man? Pensions Adviser? or Lawyer, by any chance? Are you a lapsed Catholic? Inherent guilt of that religion's built on, accumulates over time and manifests itself in the same way as bad Kharma...... until you have kids, a crisis of faith, and go to confession again..... or convert to Bhudism!
which is a bad idea.... becouse you then carry over all your inate training in self doubt and guilt, and start worrying over all the insects you might have ever trodden on in your entire life-time.......
Back to the Kharma thing..... didn't pull a lot of legs of spiders when you were a kid did you?
Sorry, about as helpful as a liberal politician, in eye!
Tell you what; give your self a P38 holiday!
Go park it somewhere out of sight; like your father-in-laws or hide it round the back of the works car-park and take a taxi home.....
Try and forget it ever existed for a month...... preferably six or even eight weeks...... so you get a couple of bank statement / credit card bills without any reference to rover Repairs on them.........
THEN; when you have regained some semblence of transindental eqilibrium........ brave a peek at it......
Your nervouse system, will, after a period of 'cold turkey' give an instant reaction, by which you should judge what you ought to do next;
Either, you will look at it, and your shoulders will sag, your stomough will fall to your knees, and your feet will try to resist all efforts to get any closer to it.....
In which case, what you ought to do, is find some inocent passer by, and offer them they keys and log-book, and walk away........ OK, so you loose a bit of money, but that's nothing compared to your health.... look at it as an offering to Karma......
OR, you will look at it, and your head will tilt, and you'll have an 'idea', something like.... "Well how much worse can it get" or "I'd forgotten how pretty it looked....."
In which case, you are, I'm afraid a 'lost cause', and what you'll have to resign yourself to is the fact that fete intended you to have a long and expensive relationship with this mota, and you better just get on with it! Look on 'faults' as new opportunities for inprovement, and the difficulty in finding the money for those improvements, simply the sacrifice needed to keep the fetes happy, and stop them giving you more difficult problems in other areas of your life.... ie its kind of like Karmah Insurance........
Alternatively......
Bring it to Coventry, book your self a room and meal in the Leofric... to establish cast iron alibi........ and when you come to go home, I'm sure that all your troubles will have mystically dissapeared in a puff of petrol smoke and a large gas explosion, leaving you merely with the hassle of convincing an insurance company (with all your accumulated 'bills') that it really WAs a desirable £5K car.......
If you cant get it as far as Coventry......... sure that a similar trip to Glasgow, or Newcastle could have similar coonsequences............
