It’s our neighbours again! Yes, they’re at it again. This time it is not the clapped-out car, but the shiny one. The fellow that owned a yellow car back on the 27th March 2000 managed to get it stuck in the driveway because it had been lowered too much. Since then, he’s sold that car and bought another one, then sold that one and bought another newer car. We’re not quite sure what they do for a living up there, but the only thing we can think of which has that sort of disposable income is hardly legal…

Anyway, the number plate of the old yellow car was transferred between cars, since it is a personalised plate (”GREDDY”). By the way, anyone that can make sense of that plate, please let us know. We have two possible thoughts about it. The first is that it is a different spelling of “GREEDY”, but that does not seem quite likely. The other is that it is an abbreviation of “GET READY” as in “READY SET GO!” because it has always been on a fast, hotted up car, likely to race around. Still, there might be some other interpretaton you can come up with, and if you do, we’d like to hear it.

I was working on the computer when I heard it going down the driveway, out into the street. The SPOTD report on 27th March 2000 explained how our driveway angles down to the street, and the street angles up to the camber in the middle of the road, causing lowered cars to have some problems. The new white car they’ve got now is lowered, but not to the same extent as the yellow car was - seems that they have learned their lesson slightly.

However, I heard the thumping bass of the stereo system in their car paused outside my window for a couple of minutes - much longer than it usually takes them to inch out of the driveway so they don’t take the front of the car off. I opened the blinds to see what the problem was, just in time to see everyone getting out of the car. Turns out there were four people in the car, and the combined weight was just enough to bottom it out on the driveway, so they could not get out with the people in it. The driver then got back in, inched his way out, and the three passengers walked the last part of the driveway, then got back in the car and they drove off.

Now, they have to win the SPOTD award because they seem to have bought a car that you can’t have passengers in. After all, if they can’t get out the driveway, what are they going to do when they are driving around the city and have to cross a railway line in the road? They’ll have to almost stop the car, possibly get the passengers out and then proceed over the lines, before getting back into the car and driving again - utter idiocy.

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