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We are picking up our new car in the next few days I think. Life should become a little more comfortable after that.

Yesterday our three modes of transport for the day included a taxi, a scooter and a company car.

The taxi had only one handle for winding up the windows, so we all had to hurriedly pass it around when it suddenly began to rain.

The scooter was fun, but I was in charge of holding the umbrella as Patrick drove, and I am not very good at that.  It is very difficult not to smack Patrick in the face with it as it blows inside out and all about.  I don’t think that is very safe.

Finally we took a company car in the afternoon, which I think has served the company for a very long time.  The hand brake gets stuck and generally takes two men or five minutes to un-stick.  Unfortunately Patrick has the unconscious habit of pulling the hand brake everytime we stop in traffic.  It took a very long time to get home.

We were undecided about which car we wanted, so went to test drive the second today.  We were taken for a demonstration drive as well as a test drive.

I didn’t think too carefully about what a demonstration drive would be, but imagined a nice cruise around with maybe some autumn leaves swirling around our tires or something…

The salesman asked me to put my seatbelt on, which I thought was very sweet, as seatbelts are not commonly worn (or available) here. Little did I know that was just to prevent me from being flung out the window as he demonstrated every possible safety feature except for the air bags.

It was all very impressive though, so sealed our decision of which car to buy.

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