Maggie_C Down Under 2026 005 by Maggie_C
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Hi and thank-you very much for looking, my new story will continue using the beautiful V4 (Victoria 4) & M4 (Michael) ... down-under
In 2024 I purchased a small car to use while in Australia and at the end of the picking season my boss said I could leave it near his house until I return, "just leave me the key so if I need to I can move it to mow the grass around it okay" sounded fair enough so I left the key with him and returned home. When I returned at the end of 2024 for picking season 2024/2025 my little car was all dirty, had trash inside, no fuel, smelled of smoke and many extra kilometers on clock, my boss says he did not drive the car at all and I believe him haha, I know he let someone else drive it for money. When picking season 2026 ended I left the little car with a girl who was staying in Australia to continue work holiday to use, she will clean it and repair if needed until I return at end of 2026, But with my sudden decision to return to Australia I was without a car, finally I was able to contact her and she is in Cairns, Queensland oh that is only 2781.7 kms away haha just 28 hr 3 min non stop driving and she can be here. I told her what happened and that I am in Australia now but I cannot ask for my little car back it is unfair to her, she offered to buy my little car, she is staying longer and will be here for another 18 months so we can help each other. I thought about it for a couple of days and yes it is a good deal, she sent me the money and registration papers and I signed them so she can get little car transferred into her name, now I need to look for another little car.
Friday was going to be movie night and look at a few cars in the used car yard near by, I showered and put on clean clothes and Darren picked me up and into Shepparton we went, look at cars first the used car yard is still open for a short time.
picture 1; First stop is used camper car yard and already I see something I like, thumbs up to the bumper sticker "WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER" ... Darren is looking at the side of the combi van and then starts laughing, ? "oh Maggie this is the car for you, come and look".
picture 2; "Make Love Not War" ... "Maggie Make Love Not War" Darren said haha "yes yes" I replied "I will Make Love Not War ... now? haha ... in the car? ... will you Make Love Not War Darren? ... oh so much fun ... I do like the car I wonder if it is for sale? "lets see if anyone is still here and we can ask" said Darren.
picture 3; As we walked around the car we were both just as shocked to see Bill sitting there, who is Bill?, he is a bad man that caused so much trouble in orchard for me and Darren in 2015/2016, he is a drunk and drug user and Darren wants to punch him in the face, I grab Darren's arm and say "please don't you will get into trouble". Bill looked at us and said "hey it is my cobber and the girl" even from this distance we can smell his alcohol breath. I tried to be polite and act interested in what Bill was doing here, "I came here to sell my bus but this joker only wants to give me $200 dollars for it" we try to find out more about the bus because I do like it, Bills story kept changing about how he got the bus and for how long he has had it, "need to sell it so me and the wife can go up north to live, give me $500 bucks and its yours Bill said. we will look at it and see if it is any good.
picture 4; Open the door and it is left hand drive, "so how did you get the bus?" Darren asked "oh I got it 25 years ago working on the docks in Melbourne, it was imported and the owner never picked it up, so I took it home, it had a rebuilt motor in it at the time" story number four about how Bill got the bus.
picture 5; "well it has a motor and it looks pretty clean" Darren said "Maggie go and try to start it and give it a few revs to see if it falls apart" ... "big revs you mean?" "Yes two or three big revs Maggie should do it"
picture 6; BANG BANG BANG three big revs haha.
picture 7; "oh my god Darren are you alright? ... "what? haha, I think I am deaf Maggie, Wow! that almost roasted my nuts haha I hope I can still have kids" joked Darren haha??? I am not sure what that means but he is ok that is good, clean the carby, new fuel filter and fresh fuel and it should be good to go.
picture 8; Bill is passed out in the back of the bus so no more questions to ask for now, Darren offers me his arm and says "may I escort you to your carriage my lady?" ... "yes you may kind sir" but then Darren said "oh no disco lights that cant be good" ... "disco lights?" what does he mean?
picture 9; "Disco lights on the Police party wagon, now we are in trouble" ... but we have done nothing wrong ... more story and pictures to come soon.
Yes more story to come as soon as I can, I am working as a tractor driver at the moment, my job is to push all the sticks and limbs out of the rows that the pruners cut off the fruit trees and into a big bonfire stack, usually a job for a boy but my boss does not have any spare boys, so I will help until my next job next week, me and two other girls have lots of jobs to do before picking season at the end of year. Darren was enjoying his week off until he found his photos app has up-dated also and now he has to find another way to edit his pictures, he gave a 1 star review at Microsoft store for the new version of Photos, there was no need to change that app, but Microsoft loves AI and will put it in everything ... stupid microsoft.
Stay safe and thank-you for reading and viewing part one of my long story.
I only add my name & date to my pictures no other editing is done, I try hard to avoid ever using AI again in any way, now I use Paint and it is offline and no AI ... I had a interesting chat with "co-pilot" last night, never used it before but it was helpful, it agreed my photos app must have up-dated and that is why it changed, "co-pilot" ageed AI is not always best, haha, but could not re-install my old version of Photos.
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