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Parting is such sweet sorrow. Even if it is from a bitch.

The End of Eden

Tctraynor
2005-11-04 21:42:44

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Parting is such sweet sorrow. Even if it is from a bitch.

Tony decided to put the ever-temperamental Eve up for sale in Perth. We were due to travel across the demanding Nullarbor to Adelaide. The Nullarbor is a 1,000-mile long semi-desert road with very little civilization. Tony figured that we would need a complete service before going on the road - brakes and tires and something would bound to go wrong along the journey with Eve (experience is the Mother of all tutors). Since she emptied most of his wallet to begin with and still was demanding more, he decided just to say "The End, My Friend".

We put adverts up all over the backpacker places in Perth and Fremantle. We got an ok response. My favorite response was from some Eastern European who left a message on Tony's voice mail. It went like this (For this exercise, use a Boris and Natasha accent mixed with a thick Marlene Dietrich): "Hi...my name ist [unintelligible] und Stefan. Ve vould like car you haf for say [that, we gathered, meant 'sale']. Ve are very interestink. You brink to International Backpackers at 8pm tonight, ja? Zank you". We pissed ourselves over that one.

Tony ended up selling the car to three English backpackers who were overjoyed with her. I hope she treats them better than us. But we did go out on a 'jolly good piss up', as Tony likes to say, after the divorce from Eve. That piss-up night, I discovered the truly amazing beverage ever to be invented, Caffrey's Irish Cream Ale. Jeez, can you say Elixir of the Gods?

The day after she left, we both felt out of sorts (think it could have been the Caffreys?). Sort of like our pet dog just passed or lack of hair of the dog, whichever your opinion might be. But luckily, when one door closes, another one opens (preferably to the nearest pub serving Caffrey's). We found a caravan company that wanted a decked out van transported from Perth to Adelaide. All we had to ...