A dog is for life, but shell out on one of these and it’ll probably last even longer
Happy birthday, Tommy from Surrey! She turned 121 this week. What an age. She can remember both wars and puts her longevity down to a fondness for eating garden weeds. Because Tommy’s a Hermann tortoise who belongs to a lady called Sheila and is expected to push on for another 50 years. It just so happens that I went to a friend’s house for dinner recently and was introduced to their tortoise. Bob was a younger version of Tommy and the size of a pack of playing cards but very speedy, galloping back
and forth across the table for strawberries. He was a birthday present for their eight-year-old son, who has already insisted he will be taking Bob with him to university in due course. It made a nice change from going to friends’ houses to meet their new labrador puppies, frankly. Car Giant the following day with the right paperwork for the swap. I also agreed to an extended warranty on my new car because the salesman was jolly convincing about it. The following 23 hours were spent in the council office changing over my parking permit before returning to Car Giant.
To cut this story short before we all die of old age, it turns out I didn’t have the right bit of paper to sell my old car. I’d rifled through those drawers to find what I thought was my V5 logbook but was actually an old version in disguise. When I returned to Car Giant, they therefore couldn’t accept my old car. This resulted in a complicated afternoon of getting both cars back to my flat again and means I’m temporarily the moronic owner of two cars (sorry, Greta), but only one permit and have had to park my old one in Westfield shopping centre until the DVLA sends me a replacement logbook this week.
I’ve also done a bit of googling and, according to online reviews, that warranty is roughly as good as my filing abilities so I need to cancel that now too. What’s the moral of the story? Get a better filing system, any sort of filing system, I suppose – and maybe some of us should only be trusted on public transport after all.