I have developed a habit of giving away vehicles...
I know that sounds odd, but it's happened the last two times that I've moved country.

The first one was in 2009. Mrs. Ryushin and I were just about finished packing up our lives to move out to New Zealand, and about the only thing we'd not got around to getting rid of was our car.

It wasn't anything special, being a 2002 Renault Megane diesel. It sounded like a tractor, and cost me about 3,000 pounds when I'd bought about a year earlier. Mind you, I'd promptly sunk about an extra grand into putting things right with it (engine problems, mostly), and then one morning on my way to the office, I hit (and killed, upon inspection) a little deer as I was navigating a B road somewhere outside Newbury. So, it was looking a little dinged and wasn't worth a whole lot. Oddly enough, it was about this time that my sister's car (which was actually a hand-me-down from my folks.) finally coughed its last breath and had to be retired. The timing seemed fortuitous, so I offered to let her look after our car until we got back a year later.

The only thing is that we stayed in NZ for over 4 years, so they ended up driving that little Renault into the ground (they put 100k on the odometer, and I gave it to them with 80k on it, so pretty good going.)

The second time was about a year ago. Mrs. R and I were moving to Amsterdam from New Zealand, and again, we didn't get around to selling the car. We had a very nice, but completely dull little VW Bora, which was serving nicely as a wee family car. Moving all our stuff was proving to be stressful enough without worrying about the car, so we found a good home for it and asked them to look after it for us for a year.

We are moving back to NZ at the end of December, but I've just found out from the family that we gave the VW to that they are expecting a second child, so I think we won't bother asking for the car back.

In Amsterdam, we didn't buy a car. We have a pushbike, which someone has just recently expressed an interest in.
(Ryushin, Fri 21 Nov 2014, 21:25, 3 replies)

Had you bought your Megane in a southern town in its country of manufacture
I could have justified 'That's Nice Deer".
( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Fri 21 Nov 2014, 22:10, closed)

I thought it was a bit Bora-ing
I'm joking it wasn't that boring
( Major Turd for tonight only, Sat 22 Nov 2014, 0:18, closed)

fascinating.

( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Mon 24 Nov 2014, 20:20, closed)