If you read my blog regularly, you may recall that one of the perks of hubby’s job was a new company car that we got to pick out and order. We had picked a people carrier (minivan) and ordered it back when hubby started working in January. JANUARY. When did we get this car, you ask? YESTERDAY, JUNE 22nd. Yes, you read that right, yesterday. The reason they gave us for it being so long? We ordered an automatic. They just don’t have very many of them here in England. I can envision a bunch of guys in the manufacturing plant huddled around manuals trying to figure out how to make an automatic and cursing the American girl that ordered it. I was so nervous about trying to drive a stick shift while also learning my way around and driving on the left side of the street while sitting on the right side of the car. To those wondering, yes, we have had a car this whole time, actually even an automatic car, thankfully. Hubby’s company gave him a loaner that was a stick shift, so our friends who had an automatic switched with us to make things easier for me, and I truly appreciated it. But I was anxious to get our minivan and have the extra room and convenience- and to not worry about wrecking someone else’s car while trying to drive in this crazy country. In any case – I am glad it is here. People carriers are actually a lot different here than our minivans are in the US – they don’t have sliding doors and they are much smaller, but with the road and parking space sizes, any bigger and I would have a different set of problems. We took a journey in the new car last night so that I could get used to driving it and headed straight for…..McDonald’s.
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