Bought a Car or How to give your pregnant wife a heart attack

When I fell pregnant with our 3rd child we realised that our old 1989 Holden Barina was not going to fit a baby seat, a booster seat and a 10 year old comfortably in the back, not to mention carting a pram, port-a-cot, nappy bag, kitchen sink etc etc etc so we started the search for new wheels.

This search lasted months because we wanted a 4x4 type vehicle, low km, under $30K and not white. We had our hearts set on either a Toyota Prado or a Mitsubishi Pajero until we saw the Toyota Kluger which we fell in love with because it had everything we wanted and it was new BUT was way out of our price range.

We scoured our local papers, the weekend newspapers, our free paper the Quokka and just couldnt find the right vehicle for us, they were either too expensive, had too many km's or were white. We hate white cars.... boring.

My work was chaotic, worse than chaotic, it was insane and I was stressed to the max not to mention 25 or so weeks pregnant and not coping very well. Just thought I'd throw that one in, you'll get the relevance later.

Seeing as we couldnt buy local Dave extended the search online, right across Australia!

One morning while we are both at work he emails me a link to a 2003 Toyota Kluger which was priced at the upper end of our price limit but had done low km's, was gold and had everything we wanted. It was perfect except for the fact that it was in Sydney and we were in Perth!

We discuss this car over the course of a couple of days and basically make no real decision about a purchase until........

several days later my husband turns up at the door to my office and says "Come see the car I just bought" and takes off towards the front door! I blindly follow him to a white Kluger where I speechlessly ask him (yes I know I can do amazing things) who's car is this?, what are you doing with it? who's car is this? He strings me along for a while telling me it is ours when he suddenly realises that his rather pregnant for a third time and over it wife has had enough and really needs to be let in on the joke.

He purchased the gold Kluger in Sydney sight unseen, undriven, uninspected, un un un un everything. Wow he has never done anything that scary before..... or has he, he probably has but I have selective amnesia and choose not to remember.

We still have the car, it is as perfect as a car gets, we love it. I love it, it is MINE!