When I woke up on New Year's Day I was feeling a lot better than I had been doing the two days previous. So I geared up for some action! And the first thing I did was to repair my car.
The struts that are supposed to work the boot of my car had worn out. Initially I had to be careful that when I opened the boot, it wouldn't smack me on the head, but later the problem got so bad that I had to manually lift that door up, and it's surprisingly heavy. And then I had to keep it up while putting things into, and taking things out of, the boot. That is not very practical. But I had encountered that problem before; almost exactly 10 years ago, I had dealt with an identical problem with my Ford Fiesta. So I knew it was easy to solve!
When I had got back home I had started the phone car scrapping yards, but that didn't result in anything. So I then just phoned a car parts dealer nearby. And they had struts available by the 31st, and I had had time to come collect them. So now it was time to put them to use. I used a pole that I think officially is a curtain rod to keep the boot up, and replaced the struts. I was done in minutes! First chore of the year successfully completed! I'm not sure how much longer this car is going to last me, but now it will at least sit out its old age with a prim third door…
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