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The evening was tinged with sadness as this seems to be their farewell tour.
The front man, singer, player of anything that could be, even slightly considered an instrument, is hanging up his guitar, bagpipes, didgereedoo, drums, keyboard etc.
They drew the biggest crowd I have ever seen at River Rhythms.
As it was once stated in a TV show I used to watch........"All Good Things".....
Saturday was our 17th wedding anniversary.
Every year I reflect on how amazed I am that we are still going strong.
I know many people didn't think we would make 17 months. I don't blame them. I am as surprised as they are.
So, what did we do?
What we did was spend 7 hours driving from dealership to dealership and from one end of Milwaukee to another, looking for a car for Donna.
She can't afford a lot of money, but it still has to be a reliable car that will cope with Wisconsin winters.
We went to the first dealership to look at a car but it was too beat up so we didn't even test drive it.
Whilst there I spotted another, same year, same price but which looked in excellent condition.
I will now state quite openly that I know absolutely nothing about cars......NOTHING....but I pointed it out anyway.
It seemed to be ok with our party leader and, leaving me behind, they all went on a test drive.
I didn't bother to go because they really didn't want my input as to how comfy the seats were.
It was a very hot day and the air conditioning didn't work. This seemed to put people off so we set off for the next dealership. I did just whisper to Lauren that I had a feeling we would be coming back for this one and it would be a case of 'getting the first one we looked at'.
The next one looked lovely though. We all went on a test drive this time. All was well except for an awful squeaking noise coming from the back....oh and no headrests at the back.
Disaster struck when we got back to the dealership, a small Arthur Daley sort of dealership, and parked the car. The salesman came out to put the car away and .........the thing wouldn't start. No way would it start.
He then did something very wrong. He blamed Philip for having locked/unlocked/ put the key in.......all wrong.
Apparently, this made it randomly disable itself.
We didn't think so. No one did anything weird.
The guy said he would phone when he got it going again. He never did. Crossed that one off.
The rest of the cars we saw were more expensive, covered in rust, one had no driver's door handle, one had had the radio ripped out.........the salesmen had a bloody cheek to even show them.
7 hours later.........guess what?
Yup, we were back at the original dealership signing papers for the first car.
They are going to look at the a/c to see if they can fix it.
Donna and Philip are picking it up tonight when Philip gets home from work.
It is a Chevrolet Tracker.
I hope it will be ok.
So, having spent all day out and about we were all exhausted. How would we celebrate our anniversary?
Philip and I had sort of planned to have a meal out but we were too tired.
So, we bought Subway sub sandwiches and ate them indoors.
We still know how to party.
posted by Sue Banks @ 1:34 PM
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