Toyota's recalling their Yaris' due to some seatbelt defect that causes it to catch alight after crashes. For some reason, I figured Pearl would be an exception (major wishful thinking), but I'm going to have to take her down to the Toyota dealer on the weekend. Boo! Apparently, it's not a huge deal to fix, taking less than an hour.
I am proud to say, though, that the first time that Pearl needs to get fixed is not my fault. I'm not so crash-hot behind the wheel (poor choice of words, but you get what I mean) so it's no surprise I've managed to accumulate multiple "mishaps" on the road.
I've kerbed the wheel when turning left... twice. The rims are barely silver on that wheel anymore. I've hit the front bumper driving onto my cousins' driveway. I've backed into my garbage bin. But the most dangerous (and funniest) one of them all was when I swerved onto the wrong side of the street after a bus had abruptly stopped in front of me. And that's not the worst of it: there was one of those long-ish islands in the middle of the street so I had to speed past it to get back to the right (ie. correct and left) side of the street. And did I mention there were oncoming cars?
All of these occuring in the short span of 20 days, haha. Well, there have been no near-accidents this past week, so I'm learning! :)
x Dianne
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Still reading: The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
