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It was with very mixed feelings that I watched as my car pulled out into traffic and disappeared.

I wasn’t driving it, and that felt very wrong.

In the car were two women, a mother and daughter, that had flown up to Wellington from Christchurch that morning. We picked them up from the airport around 8am. They were now on their way to the ferry to drive their new car back down to Christchurch (after a spot of sightseeing).

The morning stated well enough. We were up, had breakfast and got on the road to the airport on time (unusual for us). My wife checked the plane had arrived on time as we drove. Whoops! It had arrived quite a bit early!

We got to the airport to find it was under construction and there was nowhere to park. Calamity! I dropped my wife off to find our potential buyers while I went looking for somewhere to park. This involved going back out of the airport and then turning around and going back in again, driving the wrong way through an intersection and generally being a teenager behind the wheel.

I finally found a park miles away, at the far end of the carpark, and then ran to the terminal to see if my wife had found our buyers. No sign of them.

So she went to one baggage claim area and I went to the other.

Still no luck. This was becoming a problem.

I tried to call my wife, but my phone didn’t ring. WTF?

It turns out, somehow, my phone figured that since I was at the airport, it should go into airplane mode. No time to fiddle about with that, so just as I got to the other baggage claim area, my wife found our buyers. Whew!

They were lovely.

So I then ran back to get the car and drove them to a nearby shopping centre so they could get out and inspect the car before taking it for a test drive. All was good. They really liked it and were keen to take it on the road.

With them not being locals, and me being nervous about letting strangers drive my car, I stayed in the passenger seat. I guided them on a good test drive route that included motorway driving, and a big hill, before diving into suburbia and some fun twisty, downhill bits. Then it was back into the city, and fingers crossed, to the bank to get the money thing done.

I was keen to get this part done as quickly as possible for a few reasons.

On the test drive we almost had three nose-to-tail crashes because the driver wasn’t paying attention to the road or the traffic in front. We nearly ran up on the curb four times because she took the corners too sharply, and to top it all off, she was uninsured. Her current car had no insurance and she had not arranged insurance for my car if / when she bought it.

Scary stuff!

The other reason for getting it done was so that we could go and buy a new car, or at least get the process under way that day so we wouldn’t be without a car for too long.

We had arranged for the buyer to give us a bank cheque, as both she and my wife have the same bank. This would mean the cheque would clear the same day.

But….

Whilst the buyer did get a bank cheque made out in my wife’s name, she had drawn in from a different bank. That meant it would take up to five working days to clear.

Bugger.

But a deal is a deal. So we banked the cheque, did the change of ownership online (which was a new thing for me), and then they kindly dropped us off at the car dealer.

And that was the last I saw of my wee car. We heard that they made it safely all the way back to Christchurch at about 3am, which was a relief.

So now we wait (and walk) for the new car to arrive.

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