Seizure

I’d given mother-in-law’s unreliable Mini a good kicking when it started misbehaving. Accordingly, she figured the car was on its last legs. So she sold it to me!

I treasured that blue Mini, getting to know its foibles.

Later, at our wedding, of course I planned to drive my bride to our new life in London in the Mini. But mother-in-law wasn’t allowing that!

“Far too unreliable! It’s sure to break down! Get a hire car!”

But the wretched Hertz car’s gearbox seized up en route route in the middle of nowhere...

”Wherefore art thou Mini?”