While I normally post about my random scenarios I am going to post about my wonderful teacher Oti's unfortunate mishap. Yesterday, I received a text "please come at 8:40 tomorrow instead?" 8:40? I always come at 8:40 ....weird.
Anyway I arrive at Oti's apartment at exactly 8:40. Same as always. And same as always she was running late. We leave the house and Oti says
"My normal car is broken...we have to take an older car. Ill explain on the way to school. It's slower so that is why we have to leave early."
I think to myself oh is she embarrassed? Is this a 1980 station wagon and she wants to leave early to avoid stares? I mean the woman drives a brand new BMW..she has two.
We get to the car. Its a 1974 Volkswagon bug. YUP. The herbie car. As shown below.
NICEEEEEEEE
I am grinning ear to ear. This is going to be AWESOME. We get into the car. The seats have springs in them and the back seat has no seat belt. ha. ha. ha.
We start driving and we go up the ramp to leave the garage and the car stalls...
stalls and then starts rolling BACKWARDS and she shouts "Venga mi caballero!" "Come on my knight!"
She has to put on the emergency break and after THREE times (after rolling 3/4ths down) she is able to get up the ramp....phew
Remember the minor seatbelt detail?? yeah.
Then the stalling continues.
Once in an intersection...once going up another hill....and another in the rotary.
All optimal places to be stuck.
Now the daughter is laughing hysterically..and I'm bouncing around the backseat because 1) there are springs in the seat and 2)I have no seat belt.
Eventually we get to the daughters school and I move up to the front seat. Now for why the normal BMW is not working and why we are in the 1974 Herbie car.
Oti begins to tell me..
"So you know in the Parte Antigua..those pillars that block cars from entering. Those pillars can go down if you have a key and you can drive over them....WELL I was following a van in and I thought it was the time when you could enter the Parte Antigua so I just drove after him. Well he had a key and made the pillars go up to block other cars. Well the pillars ended up rising underneath the car..crushing everything and lifting the back end of my car into the air."
I am trying so hard not to laugh.
She continues...
" So I had to call the mechanic to take it to the shop and my husbands in Madrid so I was all upset. And then the mechanic starts to list of all the things that are wrong with the car and I start to cry. Anyway so now we are taking this car. Sometimes I think it will fly away like in the movie Herbie"
I think.. at least shes in good spirits now. But what a ridiculous story.
And then it continues...
Later in the day we get coffee and come back to find the students surrounding her car.
We think they are just interested because its an antique until we hear a student shout "paloma" which means pigeon. I think..what????
We get closer and there is a PIGEON stuck in the exhaust. Oh.my.god.
You could see the little feathers sticking out.
I start laughing again....poor pigeon, poor Oti. She bends down to try to pull the bird out but all she gets are feathers.
Now I have to leave the scene because I was laughing uncontrollably. Oti later has to get the janitor to pull out the bird which later left a pile of feathers and grease. So sad.
Fortunately Oti is a good sport and I got a few giggles for the day. And hopefully I will get more rides in the beetle! As long as we don't stall in anymore intersections....or ramps
