That comes in pink, yeah?

After spending the last couple of months freaking out while driving my car – and by freaking out, I mean hypervigilance, visible shaking, chewing my lips, crying uncontrollably and having to fight the urge to cover my eyes and scream or get out and run  😐   we’ve decided we better … you know… get a different car for me to drive.  I literally haven’t driven my car for nearly three weeks and it’s starting to really push the friendships up here asking people to drive me around. 

Sounds so stupid to me that I of all people would act/react like that but I literally can’t help myself – it’s uncontrollable, so car shopping it is.

Went looking at a few different cars today and even drove a few and felt back to my old self on the road, which is a good thing I guess.    I’m looking at a Mazda 3…  they’re one of the most popular midsize cars on the road at the moment, price is pretty good, retains their value well and has lots of great safety features and comes in sexy purple. Woo-hoo!

or maybe a Mitsubishi Lancer… no sexy colours, but lovely to drive and feels really stable and zippy on the road.  Comes with a pile of funky extras like side and curtain airbags, leather steering wheel and has a nice big boot for such a little car

and just for fun I took a Mini Cooper for a spin.  What a great fun little car they are!   Six speed manual, goes like shit off a shovel and I found myself doing 80 kph in second gear more than once  🙂  Would love one of them… but probably way too small and a little on the expensive side.

Then we went to look at a  VW Beetle.  I could totally see myself driving one of these.  I didn’t get to drive one, they didn’t have a petrol manual one there, but am going to make a time to take one out some other time.  And of course I’ve seen a couple of them around town in pink…. which is a major draw card of course 🙂

Have already ruled out the dinky Ford Focus – felt like driving a toy compared to these and I still a few more options to look at … Honda Civic, Holden Astra… VW Polo.  So we’ll see where it ends up!   All up I ended up feeling a bit more confident that the disquiet I’ve been experiencing when driving is kinda like having flash back to the last accident cos I’m in the same car which I’ve never had to worry about before – they always wrote them off in the past.

* I seem to have picked up a strange habit
of thinking in song lyrics of late… weird.
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