Boot Boy
We were lunching with the McBrevitys in Marlow on the Thames. Another chum drove four of us there in his SUV. Great! I could drink!
Lunch for six would be at a restaurant just outside the town a shortish drive away. But the SUV only seated five. Rather than take two cars, it seemed appropriate that the oldest septuagenarian should travel in the boot. So I did.
They were kind, offering to pull back the retractable rear shelf to give light, but I wanted the full boot experience! Trouble was, curled up in the dark, I quickly nodded off.... zzzzzzzzzz
- Category: True Stories Told As Fiction
8 comments add one below
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Neville Hunt about 3 years ago
True story, but it wasn’t the first time I’d been fully booted!
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Jamie Clapperton about 3 years ago
Blimey Neville,sounds a fascinatingly uncomfortable way to travel. -)
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Neville Hunt about 3 years ago
I sent my kids the link and my eldest said he’d travelled from Leeds to Knaresborough in a car boot for a hockey fixture when at uni. He had the full boot experience too. It was obviously more uncomfortable than mine, which was a Mercedes! Ooooh! Ain’t your mates posh Nev! 😁 (No, just old!)
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Christopher about 3 years ago
I've heard the English phrase "putting the boot in" but I've never heard of being "put IN the boot!"
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Neville Hunt about 3 years ago
The ‘boot’ is what you call the trunk, Christopher... the luggage compartment, usually at the rear.
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Christopher about 3 years ago
Yeah, I knew that was the trunk and the bonnet is what we call the hood. But I love the British phrase of "putting the boot in" so I thought that was an interesting twist, being put "in the boot!" People used to do that here at drive-in movies, they would sneak a few of their buddies in using the trunk so they wouldn't have to pay and then let them out once they got parked.
Ah, good times...
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Neville Hunt about 3 years ago
‘Putting the boot in’ is a great expression which is usually used symbolically... but it means the same thing in terms of infliction of pain!
Good times indeed, sir, but one day soon I think, these will be the good times too 🤔
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Neville Hunt about 3 years ago
Drive-in movies.. a totally US concept... although... in these strange COVID times here some entrepreneurs have trialled it here.
