Touchwood
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We all love our 'vans, I know, but how emotionally attached are you? Do you view it as the purely functional adjunct to your chosen leisure activity/way of life, or is it more personal than that?
It starts, I suppose, by giving it (her/him) a name. After that you're on the slippy slope - you start feeling sorry for leaving her in storage, all on her own with no-one to talk to except that snotty Hymer on one side or that common little tart of a battered caravan on the other. When you go to pick her up she wags her exhaust pipe excitedly, and if you're not going away but only giving her a run out or doing some maintenance she looks positively doleful when you take her back; her wing mirrors droop dejectedly and there's a sad little whine when you turn the engine off. She's never resentful, though, and rather like a large and faithful dog will always welcome you and do her best for you.
I haven't yet descended so far into madness as to leave an old sweater with my smell on it in the driver's seat to keep her company, or calling round to talk to her when I'm not actually going to use her - but maybe it's only a matter of time?
Does anyone else suffer from this pitiful aberration? Or is it just me? Should I seek professional advice? Is it too late.......?
It starts, I suppose, by giving it (her/him) a name. After that you're on the slippy slope - you start feeling sorry for leaving her in storage, all on her own with no-one to talk to except that snotty Hymer on one side or that common little tart of a battered caravan on the other. When you go to pick her up she wags her exhaust pipe excitedly, and if you're not going away but only giving her a run out or doing some maintenance she looks positively doleful when you take her back; her wing mirrors droop dejectedly and there's a sad little whine when you turn the engine off. She's never resentful, though, and rather like a large and faithful dog will always welcome you and do her best for you.
I haven't yet descended so far into madness as to leave an old sweater with my smell on it in the driver's seat to keep her company, or calling round to talk to her when I'm not actually going to use her - but maybe it's only a matter of time?
Does anyone else suffer from this pitiful aberration? Or is it just me? Should I seek professional advice? Is it too late.......?