At Last, People of my own!

Greetings all you cars, bikes, boats and busses. My name is 'Zoot' and until just before New Year I used to live at Winger Kia in Greenlane.

Life there wasn't too bad. Every now and then nice people would walk around me and say things about how cute and shiny I was. Every now and then someone would open up my doors and climb in and out of me, talking all the time about how much legroom I have, and how my seats are so comfortable and supportive.

Just before Christmas I was happily watching the passing traffic when a nice man and a couple of rather hot and tired children came wandering past. I listened in to their conversation, not because I'm nosy, but, well, there wasn't really much else to do.

"How long will dad take?"

"I don't know, it depends on when the tow truck arrives to collect the car and then bring it to the workshop."

"Bugger!," I thought. Some poor car has broken down, in the middle of the day, in broad daylight and just before Christmas, Oh dear the poor thing! It won't be very popular.

The conversation moved on to things like, "I'm bored!" "Can I have a coldrink?" and other less fascinating topics and my attention wavered. But not before I heard the man say to the children, "Aren't those cars cute? I like to have a whole lot of them, a different colour one for evey day of the week..." I dozed off.

A few days later you can imagine my suprise when the same man, but without the children this time, was shown into the showroom and introduced to 'Basil the boss' They came outside, went through the climbing in and out routine and then took 'silver the demo' out for a drive. A few minutes later they were back and to cut a rather long story short bought me and took me home!

I was delighted, finally some people of my own! Their names, I worked out later, were Peter and Greg.

Peter did the driving and seemed to be quite good at it. Greg talked very excitedly all the way back to my new garage. He opened and closed things, switched all the different bits off and on and generally put me through my paces.

I driven around a bit and shown off very proudly. The two of them seemed pleased as punch with me and I must admit that I took an immediate liking to them too.

I didn't realise what was in store for me over our first few weeks together. It was a quite a trip really and so I'll tell you all about it in installments.

See you soon

Zoot