"Mini Problems" drabbles by Neville Hunt

Seizure

Mini Problems #2

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?”

Good Impression

Mini Problems #1

We went to The Royal Ballet Diamond Celebration yesterday. Lovely traditional ballet excerpts with full costumes... and some with virtually no costumes at all..... reminding me of when I took my prospective mother-in-law, fiancée and my mother to the ballet.

I drove us in her mum’s Mini. On the way, it suddenly stopped. I got out, angrily kicking the front tyre, Fawlty-style, before fixing the problem.

Unbeknownst to me, it wasn’t a traditional costume ballet, but almost naked dancers cavorting most sexually! The ladies were shocked!

To think I was trying hard to make a good impression!