I Crashed My Friend's Lotus

Alas, it wasn’t all in my head…

Well, the bill’s arrived and it’s not pretty. However, it’s not quite as painful as it could have been (slightly less than the garage’s £4k estimate). The final repair bill is £3336.54 (garage) + £180 (got my neighbour mechanic to have a look when I only thought a new track rod was required), bringing the cost to a total of £3516.54. I’ll get the bill scanned in and you can see the pain of it all….

Given I drove the car for a total of about an hour over the day, that’s some hefty cost for some fast fun…

In terms of earning it back, still very early days. My friend Jim had a fine idea of splitting the repair bill into 100 jobs of £35 each and has kindly offered to pay the first unit for me to obsessively clean his motorbike for sale. I’ve setup Google Adsense on this page for any Lotus-owners that fancy a click-through and so far have earnt 73p. Only £3515.81 to go!!!

On a final note, I had to buy a new pair of work shoes recently (post-crash). Didn’t notice at the time but later on spotted something rather interesting – some wierd karma stuff is happening….