What's going on?

A former school friend of my wife came for dinner with us last night, having recently returned to the area after living and working abroad in mainland Europe. A local girl who went to Grove Park Girls school.

Not wanting to be fleeced when trying to sell the new car she'd bought whilst away, she had decided to drive it back home and keep it for a while. We were stunned when she recounted a tale of the horror that is driving a foreign registered left hand drive car in this country.

Nothing to do with overtaking or blind spots though, no the real horror is the vilification she's experienced from both drivers and pedestrians who spew bile at her based along the lines of 'you're not welcome here' and 'go back to your own country'. Certain hand gestures are an everyday insulting occurrence to her. That's all without the damage caused to the car's paintwork whilst it's parked outside her home by morons who deliberately damage it, presumably because of the European number plates. No doubt, those same people look forward to spending their annual holiday in the same country the car is registered in.


nick