Remember my car accident

Thursday was spent taking the car to be assessed, when they gave me the terrible news that the car would be written off, therefore I am carless. Then they refused me a hire car, then changed their minds. Then said they needed to see my driving license. My dad said he'd drive up (he lives about 3/4 hr away) to pick it up because they were taking the hire car to him.
I knew where the license was so wasn't worried. But horrors, when I went to get it, it wasn't here. So I started looking. I took EVERYTHING out and the more I looked, the more I couldn't find it, the more time was running out and the sooner my Dad would be arriving, the more I cried and the more I thought This Just isn't my fault and the more I got wound up and couldn't stop crying.
My Dad arrived and was cross because he'd driven so far and I couldn't find it. But kept his fingers crossed that just maybe they wouldn't need it, and indeed they didn't.
The Hire car was lovely. A Ford Proton2. It was my first time in a gear car for three years and I was nervous but it was easy to dive and I loved it.
But meanwhile my dad decided that it was silly all this driving up and down nonsense and he'd go get me a replacement car himself.
So he did.
Now don't think I'm not grateful for all they've done, with the stress and hassle of it all. At the end of the day I do have transport to get to work in..Ok, that's the main thing.
But I cannot hide the fact that I HATE the car. It's an old Proton Gemini, in a beige/loose diarrhoea colour. I hate the interior, its old and smelly. I hate the steering wheel. It's old and has a square in the middle. The radio hisses at me. And it's huge. I wanted something


Oh it drives ok, and it goes quite fast. It doesn't pull away too well and the brakes are no-where near the quality of the Honda. I traveled quite a way before I stopped today (when I braked)
It's an old banger. It's a car an old Grandad would have. My ex father in law had something similar about 15 years ago. It looks like a Corned Beef Tin on wheels.
Do you get the idea that I hate it yet?
So I'm not using it unless I have to. And I'm really upset. Last Tuesday Morning I had a car I liked, A car I choose. It went well and I was happy with it. Now I have an accident that wasn't in any way my fault and I have an inferior car. A car that goes and that's all it does. A car that is older than mine, Ugly and Evil.
And I actually feel really depressed about it. I wish that bastard last week had his eyes on the road and was watching where he was going. I

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