hi sinister I'm in a pretty filthy mood right now. Filthy as in bad, rather than kinky, so don't get any ideas that this post will be anything less of a rant and a moan. BANKS Banks are gits. CAN anyone explain, why in the UK, it takes days for a cheque to clear? I'm only asking, becuase I was due to pick up my beloved car today. For those of you who don't know: I passed my test, and bought a car the next day. Bought, as in "I'll have one of those in red please, here's £100 deposit." (You don't know how cool that felt to actually say that. Some of you might object to the whole idea of wealth, but y'know, still, being able to say that felt good. Oh, I'm so ruled by money sometimes. I bet they thought I was a prat in the dealers, but I don't care) And then? then came the insurance. The company who offered me the lowest rate, was Diamond, and I'm yet to work out the catch. It was £500 less than what the AA could find, and £300 less than the RAC. Then I had to get a loan, and get stroppy in a bank when they were going to charge me for transferring money to my other account. I threatened to close my account altogether, so they let me off with it, and did it all free of charge. I just don't understand, why, in a world of computers and technobuffins, that to transfer money I had to either: 1. pay £18 for a telegraph transfer (telegraph? a bit 19th Century, don't you think?) 2. Pay £2.50 and wait a few days for a bog-standard transfer 3. Walk two miles with a cheque in my hand to the other bank and wait five days for the cheque to clear. Anyway. I got it sorted. And I got my loan through, and now I have to wait a few days for that to clear. But to pay for my car by cheque, I'd have to wait ten working days, which I don't get, I wonder if they send it half way round the world for everyone o have a good look at it and make sure they agree. So I agreed with my dad he'd pay for it, and I'd write him a cheque later when my loan has cleared. I WANT MY CAR NOW!!! anyway, complications have set in, and I'm not very happy about it. Its taking all the romance out of shopping, and turning it into something cold and cruel and seedy. Second thing, I don't yet know if my car is a boy or a girl, but either way it needs a name. I seem to be veering towards a girls name at the moment, so it might be a girl car. I have this feeling that we can do this whole female bonding thing if it is a girl, rather than risk a battle of the sexes if it is a little boy car. Names I've got to rule out include: Ruby: A friend of my boss already has a car called Ruby, and its the same colour and model. My car will just be confused if she shares its name with another car. Scarlet (as in o'hara): primarily because I keep thinking of Miss Scarlet. While some of the boys on this list might not object to being able to say in all honesty "I ride Scarlet!", I feel my car needs a name of her own, otherwise it won't be my car. I like individualism. Daisy: A name I had thought of, until my boyfriend told me his parents old car was called Daisy, because it made a moo noise. So that name has been taken. Blossom: Powerpuff girl. Shes not as cool as Buttercup but she has that red-head thing going on. But shes just not the cool one. Buttercup: Powerpuff girl. Becuase I want to be Buttercup. Milly: I liked it at first, then I thought of Milly's cookies. So I thought that was a bit corporate. Might as well call her Starbucks. Rose/Rosie: too many people with that name already. It will distract me. I thought of calling it "Blue", for one reason that it will just confuse people. "Blue the red car". But then, there's only a rotten boyband called that, and heaven help me, but I don't want that association. Additionally, the kids TV show, Blues Clues. I've also ruled out any name that is a reference to a Belle and Sebastian song in anyway. And I won't call her Belle either. I just feel that would be verging on the overly twee to name her after a Belle and Seb song. Like naming a car isn't twee. I saw my car today, sitting in the parking lot. In some ways, I was a bit shy to go over. She just looked as if she was waiting patiently. I'm slightly glad I didn't, becuase I don't want her to think I don't love her and I'm having cold feet. At the same time, perhaps that was a bit rude of me. Maybe she saw me and felt I was ignoring her. I hope she will be ok. We'll have a chat when we formally meet. I was so excited, I even held the car keys. It was quite a moment, really. Just sitting in the dealers, with the keys in my hand. But in the end, I had to hand them back, and that hurt. She looks very pretty, and lots of people have complimented her appearance already. I know some of you will think this is very sad* But its my first car! a brand new baby! Shes going to take me to all sorts of places. Another note, her numberplate is slightly personalised, which is good. I misheard the lady on the phone the first time. I thought she said SO EASY. My car won't be easy! She'll be Secy. ANyway, time to go and fulfill the subject line. love idles *approximately 99% of the sinister population agreed with this statement, according to a BBC poll. ===== <a href="http://retrosec.blogspot.com/">http://retrosec.blogspot.com/</a> thoughts __________________________________________________ Yahoo! Plus - For a better Internet experience http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/yplus/yoffer.html +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. 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