Bad yes, there is no other word. Not that anything serious happened to us, huh? In fact, nothing has happened to us ... only that there are days when everything goes in the ass and when you think karma / destiny /whatever is he has no more resources ... zas! It surprises you with a new bitch you didn't expect. Come on Karma 1 - Lety + Rober 0
The day begins with the alarm at 07.30: at 08.00 we have an appointment in the village mechanic workshop to do the car check and change a few things. The budget is already bad news: about 300 turkeys (theoretically, in the end they will continue to be more). Better, so that the thing is more entertaining, we are going to leave you with some chapters, in chronological order, of the jokes of Mr. Karma:
IL BUONGIORNO IF YOU SEE DAL MATTINO
The cat has pissed us in front of the door of the room (since he started peeing in the shower we closed the bathroom). Between cleaning, we wash our faces and get dressed, we don't have time to go to breakfast… so we go quickly to the car we have to go.
WHAT SURPRISES
Rober tries to drive the engine ... and for the second time in our history van does not start! Very good: the battery is dead. So, what can we do now? The only solution is to find the cables to make a bridge with the other car (a good thing about houesitting is that we have our car and that of the owners of the house). We go to the garage and nothing, no shadow of the cables. We call the workshop and try to explain our situation by warning that we will take. We walk around the neighborhood but today it seems that everything is dead! Finally we decided to throw for the workshop with the other car and take the cable there.
CACHIS ME!
Those in the workshop are majetes and they leave us the cable, they explain to us how it works and they even tell us that they come to pick up the car ... we don't need to say, if in a half hour sure we are back. Poor illusions! With the problem of the cable already solved, we are presented with a new one: our car is embedded between a wall and the side of the boat of the owners (yes it is a piece house with boat!) And of course, the cables do not arrive from one to the other. You have to move the car !!
CURSE COST
Obviously (this goes for you, Mr. Karma) the parking lot has a slope, so we have to push the car up. We didn't get it with our poop muscles, luckily a boy passes by and gives us a hand. Ok, we managed to put the car about 5 meters further back and we parked the owners' car nearby. They are not parallel but the cables should arrive.
AH AH, DO I HAVE TO LAUGH?
Well, no, they do not arrive: the battery of our car is on the left of the engine and that of the other on the right, that is at opposite ends! Can you believe it? There is no way to move our car anymore so we have to think of another solution: move the boat. It would be easy if the ship did not weigh two thousand five hundred kilos (that is to say) and if there was no hill to its right. We do what we can and we move it about 30 cm ... enough to bring the car of the landlords closer to ours.
THAT THE MOTOR DOES NOT EXPLOIT
The cable comes through a hair. We put the red clamp on one side, the black one on the other ... we try to start and this is not going! God this means more tension than defusing a bomb! We place the tweezers better and… RUUUUUN! We go to the workshop!
There we left the car thinking that it would be a couple of waiting hours we would spend in the village before going to pick it up. New surprise: the mechanic tells us to return about 16. But it is 10! What we do all this time (note: the town does not have a damn, there is not even wifi in the library). Well, we go back home.
The driving license
Lety doesn't have a license, so we couldn't take the other car ... come on we have to walk back. And crap! we hitchhike Pass a car, say hello. Another happens, the driver turns around. Another happens, laughs. Pass another one, stop: yuppi! Rober rides forward and Lety in the back of the red van in the company of a very nice dog. It takes us to the door of the house. Pfiu ... doing it walking would have been the most!
AND NOW THAT?
15.00 arrive and we begin to think that at 16.00 we have to pick up the car. If before we could hitchhike now too, right? Well, no: the tato did not pass, so with good will and knowing that the return would be in our stroller, we encourage ourselves and do the 4 kilometers between descents and ascents to Coromandel Town.
NO WORRIES
We arrived and how strange: our car is not out. Where was it? Inside the workshop, on the crane! The car was not ready! "Ah guys, come back tomorrow morning that the car stays here today, no worries huh!" Don't worry your mother! Back home, walking. Well ... let's try hitchhiking. Nothing. Not for God! It will be Lety's hat, it will be Rober's beard (I think the beard) but we have to kick the 4 km back (and this time we have the part with the highest climb!)
EPILOGUE
The next morning (today) we had to go to the workshop again, this time we called to make sure the car is ready, good! Now ... do we risk walking and hitchhiking? Not even a joke: we catch some bicycles that are in the house and we are pedaling. We arrived happier than two children at Christmas although we soon remembered: now they give us the stick ... In the end it was a paste, although they respected the budget. But best of all, we go home by car. Yupiiiii! To celebrate we go to the jacuzzi, wait: it's cold! Last night the light went out and went out ... NUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!
P.S. Sorry that there is not much photo but with the luck we have if we catch the camera in a fixed hand we drop!
