Cookie's Car gets damaged

We’re walking through the streets of Brisbane and come across a Coffee Shop called ‘St Moritz’ in Albert Street. It has Swiss flags displaying outside. We go in for a cup of coffee and find out the bloke who owns it is a Swiss fellow from Central Switzerland, hence the name. He is an elderly chap, married to a big fierce looking Australian woman. He sits down for a chat and offers to show us Brisbane. He says, we’ll be closing the shop around ten o’clock, if you get here I’ll take you to some places you’ve never been.

Ten o’clock we’re at the coffee shop and he takes us to his car. He insists Ben drives, he doesn’t like driving. Ben is thrilled, it’s a fairly new Ford and we take off over the Victoria Bridge up Grey Street and up to the cliffs in Kangaroo Point. The view of the city at night is spectacular. From the Story Bridge the city looks like something out of the movies. We have come to a great place.

We drive up to Mt Coo-tha passed the Television towers and stop at the Lookout. The city is covered in bright lights and looks great.

We invite the fellow to our place for coffee before taking him back into town. He accepts and Ben drives into Kennedy Terrace towards the flats. Cookies old van is parked outside his shop and as Ben attempts to drive into our yard, he clips Cookie’s van. Glass is flying, metal crunches and as we get out of the car in our yard, Cookie’s lights have come on as have the lights in all the flats in our building.

We inspect the damage, Cookie’s rear light is smashed and surrounding panels are slightly dented. The new Ford also has it’s left indicator light missing with some superficial damage to the panels. 

The old chap is whimpering. What’s my wife going to say? It’s her car, Oh, dear, oh dear!

Ben, who works in the car repair industry, promises to restore his car to its former glory at no cost. That calms the old Swiss chap down a little. He doesn’t want any coffee and we take him back to the St Moritz and he hopes his missus won’t see the damage.

Ben picks up the damaged car a few days later, he’s organised a new light and he takes the car to his workplace where he repairs the damage and fits the new light. When he returns the car, the old chap is very pleased, mainly because his wife never saw the damage.

Cookie never came out to see what had happened to his old van and complained a few days later that someone had smashed into his van. We kept our mouths shut.