After dropping Mike off at college at 9am we drove to Milton Keynes to the Hyundai dealership. Little ET wasn't there as apparently some of the cars are stored at Wolverton but when the salesman returned, the handover took about an hour. They tried to sell us "gap" insurance which we refused and as you can imagine that didn't go down well! If Sophie really feels she needs it we can shop for it competitively online! They were trying to sell it for about £350 but I know you can buy it for under £100 with a reputable insurance company. It really annoys me when they make up some excuse about the finances having to go through the Business Manager...what they really mean is they're going to try and do a hard sell. At least they didn't try and sell us paint or damage cover!
Once everything was complete and a small forest had been cut down to provide the paperwork, we were handed the keys and I drove back to Northampton. We called in at the Weston Favell Centre to get dinner for tonight and Wednesday and on the way home I stopped so Sophie could take over. She drove really well considering she'd never driven the car before and said she loved it! It's a lovely little thing with part of the registration plate being ET so that's what we're calling it!
I went off to work and we had a very pleasant session sitting around the table with a couple of the older children and having a good chat. They can be a lot of fun sometimes!
Keith drove to get Mike from college and he put £30 of petrol in ET - they had given us a quarter of a tank of petrol which got us back to Northampton and back home again but that was it. Thankfully, the £30 almost filled the tank!
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