Well, the car had two new tyres and new brake discs, the packing was well underway, the cats had their holiday collars on (with tags engraved "Je porte une micropuce") and we were just about ready to go on holiday. Then yesterday afternoon Luc went out for a haircut .... and 'phoned me to say he'd had an accident.
It seems he was waiting to turn right out of a side road, the road from the left was clear and the car coming from the right was indicating to turn into the road he was coming out of, so he had enough of a gap to turn out. Except that the oncoming driver went straight on, into the side of the car. First of all she said she wasn't indicating, then the witness in the car behind said she was, then when the police turned on the engine of her car to move it the indicator was still going .... but that will, no doubt, be a story for another day. The insurers will see the blame as at least part Luc's as he turned out into the path of oncoming traffic, but he was led to believe that it wasn't oncoming as far as him (or he wouldn't have moved out) .....
Anyway, our car may or may not be a write-off, but it certainly is not taking us to France today.
Luckily, although we didn't think so at the time, we failed to sell our previous car last week. So once we had spoken to the insurance company, the latter part of yesterday was spent changing the car details on the ferry booking, changing the car details on the breakdown insurance, and re-organising the packing for a much smaller boot space, as well as refitting things such as hands free kits we had removed from the car we are now taking on holiday before putting it up for sale.
All in all, not the relaxed evening and early night we had planned.
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