I recently bought a new car. Well new to me but not new, you get the picture. It is a 2003 Ford Focus in the colour green, really nice.
So my husband went to pick it up from the guy I was buying it from so he could do the whole road worthiness thing before I started to drive if.
It was really weird what happened next ...
He was driving down the brae when he saw this wheel rolling down the road beside him. It only took him a few seconds to realise it was the wheel from my new focus.
Of course my other half is a clever man, he got an A in Technology at school and his teacher said he would go a really long way. Lucky for my husband he was near the garden centre so he was able to stop the car safely within walking distance. He jacked the car up so it wouldn't topple over while he went to get help.
When he was in the garden centre the assistant came over to him straight away. Apparently he was a nice young chap, few acne spots but nothing that bad I guess. He came up with an amazing idea and loaded 5 bags of gravel onto a trolley for my other half. After paying £37.50 for the gravel my husband got the young spotty lad to help him the few hundred yards down the road with the trolley, he promised the lad a £1 tip if he would help so that sealed the deal.
So here is what happened next, I am just blown away by the ingenious idea my husband had. He loaded all the gravel into the back seat of the car, the opposite side to the lost wheel and you never guess what happened?
The car balanced up and he was able to take the jack out from underneath and the car didn't even topple over.
I guess he should have taken the car back to the guy he bought it from but as we had bartered £50 off the asking price it was kind of hard.
The gravel is working good, we have been able to drive the car into town for our shopping this week and we also went to the zoo. Thankfully the car park was slightly on an incline so we parked sideways across two parking bays and the slope kept the car safe whole we spent the day looking at the giraffes and elephants.
I'm very happy with my new car, I just hope that one day I can get it fixed as I could do with the gravel for the back garden.