Indicator Switches & Seagulls on the Roof

Yesterday I wrote about how I was off to an author event, about which I was feeling somewhat anxious. Turns out, like everything in life, I was worrying needlessly about it.

I drove there in my new company car, a Ford Focus, which looks something like this:


When I got offered the rep's job, I initially asked about using my own car, because I don't want to sell it and I don't want to have two cars. But with everything going on, it was just easier to take the car that was being offered and worry about parking in my time-restricted street later.

It's an awesome car, with all the mod cons. I'm very happy that it's a sedan rather than a hatchback (like all the other reps have ... I hate driving hatchbacks!!). The only thing that really shits me about it is that the indicator switch is Eureopean-style, which means it's on the opposite side to what I'm used to, and that to indicate left you have to push it down instead of up.

This means I have to re-wire my brain after seven years of being on the road. I'm constantly having to think "Left is down. Left is down.". That's when I'm not switching on the windshield wipers by mistake.

Aaaaaaanyway.

The bookshop the event was being held in was beautiful. The author was an extremely nice guy, and I ended up chatting not just with him, but a number of the people who'd come along to hear him speak. His book's a non-fiction title about a sniper in Gallipoli who was half-Chinese. Fascinating stuff.

Because the bookshop was in Frankston, you could hear seagulls cawing outside and on the roof as the author was giving his talk.

The whole thing had a very laid-back feel, and I ended up being very glad I went .... even if I didn't get home until after 10.

I got my new business cards today .... which means I now have about three or four hundred out-dated ones I have to throw out. Ah well.

Bring on the weekend!