(the artiste formerly known as *45 Minutes To Forever*)

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

What are the odds...

...of you taking your car to the garage and being handed the keys to a brand-spanking-new, 2.0 Turbo Sport Saab, with 300 miles on the clock, as a replacement car?

...of you driving the said replacement car to an arboretum (posh word - I know!) with a chap wearing a Stetson in the backseat and encountering a flash thunderstorm on the way?

...of having the three-quid-a-head arboretum entry fee waived?

...of you seeing an ostentation (posher word - I know!) of peacocks sauntering casually across your path?

...of you coming back to the said swanky replacement car in the car park only to find two of the said peacocks on the roof of the car, and about six others around it?

...of one of the chaps atop the car, read my lips, f-l-y-i-n-g to the nearby tree to join the other tree-dwelling peacocks?

...of nothing (including throwing twigs, shouting and waving arms, trying to get mobile phones to play jangly ringtones, and trying to toot the horn or set off the car alarm) working to get the lone peacock off the top of the car?

...of the chap getting comfortable enough to take a dump on on the shiny blue top of the said swanky replacement car?

...that what it would finally take to get the determined and now relieved peacock off the car would be a petite lady park ranger shooing him away with a red A4 ring binder, no less?

You don't believe me, do you?

Except, may be, the part about the chap wearing the Stetson.

Now, off to deal with the peacock poop on the roof.

4 comments:

Ajith Alexander said...

:D!! sounds like a peacock 'n bull story...
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Anonymous said...

LOL! At least the peacock didn't chase you guys. Now that would have been a believable story!

didn't you just get a new car? how come it's already in the garage?

fortyfiveminutes said...

@ajith: you're a funny, funny man :)

@chakli: OMG I tell you; and I have a bird/feather phobia. How (not) funny is that?! A tiny rattle from the exhaust is why it was at the garage - all fixed now.

Anonymous said...

Insane!!! This is something that would happpen to me. Not the swanky car bit but the peacocks on the car bit. But wait...They have peacocks in England??? joke joke joke!

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