u brain
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Hi everyone!
This seems a nice place, so this is how I got here - the story begins last November.
The wife's been driving the kids around in a Ford KA for 10 years - it was her choice, honest: said she liked it! Anyway, it was on its last legs and she was saying silly things like, "Aren't those Fiat 500's cute?"
Meanwhile... I was looking for a van for work.
On the phone one day she said, "I saw a nice Mercedes; looked like it would do the job"
"What model?" I asked.
"Oh I don't know" she said, "I think it began with an 'S'"
"Great!" I went, "for all I can tell, it was an SLK"
"What's that?"
"Look it up" (She had once said it was her favourite car)
A few minutes late I get a text "Yeah! Stuff the skis, get one of those"
"OK" I wrote back... (oops! That's just the first time I got a bit carried away)
Well, the kids are borderline grown-ups now - we rarely need to take them both to the same place at the same time.
So, suddenly she's 'cool Mum' in her little black SLK350. All her friends are jealous and I've got enough brownie points to get me through an entire Winter!
I got my van and trucked down to the Alps and back a few times: all good!
In comes Spring: she's got the hang of the fact that there's acceleration to play with and I find myself looking at the SLK55 thinking, "I like the whole AMG thing going on there"
She agreed, in principle, that it might be worth test driving something.
But I'd got a bit distracted. with questions like "So what is the difference between an SLK55 and an SL55" - I'm showing her the SL500 in our street (and she's liking the wooden panels
) and then I got wind of the SL600, oh dear - with my taste things AMG, U can see where this is going 
So... last weekend, I got a bit carried away (again) and made something of an impulse purchase in the form of an '04 SL65!
Chilled, chatting with the vendor and his mate for a bit then got myself a beautiful drive home down the M1 between about 3 and 6 AM - WOW!! Roof down, unlimited power, minimal traffic and no fuzz - again: WOW!
So madame is slightly taken aback.
SLK55 NOT=SL65 fair enough.
So what with the mission creep, it seems unlikely the SL will be destined to replace the SLK - for a start, she's afraid of it :fail
So it looks like I've got a run-around for the Summer at least
However, since neither of us has owned a Merc before, I fear I may be asking a few soopid-noob questions for a bit! Please be kind!
Sorry... We've got a bit of a his n hers thing going on here - could be worse: could be his n hers Fiat 500's!
This seems a nice place, so this is how I got here - the story begins last November.
The wife's been driving the kids around in a Ford KA for 10 years - it was her choice, honest: said she liked it! Anyway, it was on its last legs and she was saying silly things like, "Aren't those Fiat 500's cute?"
Meanwhile... I was looking for a van for work.
On the phone one day she said, "I saw a nice Mercedes; looked like it would do the job"
"What model?" I asked.
"Oh I don't know" she said, "I think it began with an 'S'"
"Great!" I went, "for all I can tell, it was an SLK"
"What's that?"
"Look it up" (She had once said it was her favourite car)
A few minutes late I get a text "Yeah! Stuff the skis, get one of those"
"OK" I wrote back... (oops! That's just the first time I got a bit carried away)
Well, the kids are borderline grown-ups now - we rarely need to take them both to the same place at the same time.
So, suddenly she's 'cool Mum' in her little black SLK350. All her friends are jealous and I've got enough brownie points to get me through an entire Winter!
I got my van and trucked down to the Alps and back a few times: all good!
In comes Spring: she's got the hang of the fact that there's acceleration to play with and I find myself looking at the SLK55 thinking, "I like the whole AMG thing going on there"
She agreed, in principle, that it might be worth test driving something.
But I'd got a bit distracted. with questions like "So what is the difference between an SLK55 and an SL55" - I'm showing her the SL500 in our street (and she's liking the wooden panels
) and then I got wind of the SL600, oh dear - with my taste things AMG, U can see where this is going So... last weekend, I got a bit carried away (again) and made something of an impulse purchase in the form of an '04 SL65!
Chilled, chatting with the vendor and his mate for a bit then got myself a beautiful drive home down the M1 between about 3 and 6 AM - WOW!! Roof down, unlimited power, minimal traffic and no fuzz - again: WOW!
So madame is slightly taken aback.
SLK55 NOT=SL65 fair enough.
So what with the mission creep, it seems unlikely the SL will be destined to replace the SLK - for a start, she's afraid of it :fail
So it looks like I've got a run-around for the Summer at least
However, since neither of us has owned a Merc before, I fear I may be asking a few soopid-noob questions for a bit! Please be kind!
Sorry... We've got a bit of a his n hers thing going on here - could be worse: could be his n hers Fiat 500's!
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