Our Bob Is An Awesome Bob!

I drove over to a friend’s house in Sudbury last night. It’s almost exactly 10 miles each way. The drive over was free of any excitement. I stopped for petrol and Bob was perfect. Purring away and so enjoyable an experience I composed a lyrical waxing about the joys of older vehicles in my head to be included here today.

On arrival D asked if he could have a look around Bob and I of course obliged. We had a look around her and, because it was dark, I put the internal light on for maybe a minute or so before making a point of switching it off and going back into the house.

Three hours later I say my goodbyes, wipe clean the condensation from the windows and fire her up. Nothing. The ignition lights appeared for a split second and then nothing. The battery was dead. Infuriatingly the battery jump-start pack I bought last week to use on the Smart (which was intended to live in Bob as a backup) hadn’t made it from the kitchen at home and so I was stuck. Not wanting to encur the wrath of the RAC’s fair-use panel I made my apologies and asked D for a jump start.

Thankfully he has jump leads and thankfully Bob started straight away and was again a joy to drive on the way home. I’m still going to write that piece about the joys of older-car ownership, but my word she is certainly pushing her luck at the luck at the moment…

I picked up Bob this morning from Superbeetles and apart from a slight worry half-way home she was great.

She’ll be getting a lot of use over the next few weeks including my first longish trip in her – over to Stratford.

It’s great to have her back…

Or at least will be soon…

We haven’t seen Bob in three weeks now. Three weeks that have included Christmas & New Year and all the busyness they entail. It occured to me today that since we’ve owned Bob she’s been at the garage more than she’s been at our house. Sad really, and hopefully not a long-term situation as the RAC have informed us today that our “fair-use limit” of their service for this year is almost up. Nice.