Kudos to the old guy

[Lefty Two Drams]

A chap in my office was widowed a couple of weeks back. He's about 63-64, wife was the same age and had been ill for many years so it was no surprise when she died. Something of a relief really as she had been suffering for some time. Funeral was last week.

Anwyay, old guy appears at work in a DB9 on Monday morning (instead of the usual diesel Astra)!

And he's doing his CBT on Friday!

We reckon he'll be doing DAS pretty soon and will be rocking into the underground carpark on a Ducati within the month...

:scratchin:

Hope my wife dies first...

[freecar]

Lefty Two Drams said:

A chap in my office was widowed a couple of weeks back. He's about 63-64, wife was the same age and had been ill for many years so it was no surprise when she died. Something of a relief really as she had been suffering for some time. Funeral was last week.

Anwyay, old guy appears at work in a DB9 on Monday morning (instead of the usual diesel Astra)!

And he's doing his CBT on Friday!

We reckon he'll be doing DAS pretty soon and will be rocking into the underground carpark on a Ducati within the month...

:scratchin:

Hope my wife dies first...

Really? Thinking about having a nice car and you can happily wish your wife away? Why wait, if she dies earlier you can be picking up totty in your new car.

Maybe it's because my mum is dying and I can see my dad having to come to terms with the love of his life going away for good that I think this is by far one of the most selfish, misguided posts ever made on pistonheads.

I really hope your wife doesn't read this.

[RobbieB]

freecar said:

Lefty Two Drams said:

A chap in my office was widowed a couple of weeks back. He's about 63-64, wife was the same age and had been ill for many years so it was no surprise when she died. Something of a relief really as she had been suffering for some time. Funeral was last week.

Anwyay, old guy appears at work in a DB9 on Monday morning (instead of the usual diesel Astra)!

And he's doing his CBT on Friday!

We reckon he'll be doing DAS pretty soon and will be rocking into the underground carpark on a Ducati within the month...

:scratchin:

Hope my wife dies first...

I really hope your wife doesn't read this.

I hope she does

[Lefty Two Drams]

Perhaps I should have included a smiley icon thingy like this one to express the intended tongue-in-cheek nature of the final comment on that post.

For clarity, have another

[PGM]

Fair play to the guy!

I'm sure OP doesn't really want his wife to die, just a joke?

[monthefish]

freecar said:

Lefty Two Drams said:

A chap in my office was widowed a couple of weeks back. He's about 63-64, wife was the same age and had been ill for many years so it was no surprise when she died. Something of a relief really as she had been suffering for some time. Funeral was last week.

Anwyay, old guy appears at work in a DB9 on Monday morning (instead of the usual diesel Astra)!

And he's doing his CBT on Friday!

We reckon he'll be doing DAS pretty soon and will be rocking into the underground carpark on a Ducati within the month...

:scratchin:

Hope my wife dies first...

Really? Thinking about having a nice car and you can happily wish your wife away? Why wait, if she dies earlier you can be picking up totty in your new car.

Maybe it's because my mum is dying and I can see my dad having to come to terms with the love of his life going away for good that I think this is by far one of the most selfish, misguided posts ever made on pistonheads.

I really hope your wife doesn't read this.

If she does, I doubt he'll get his wish!!

OP - I got the tounge in cheek tone of your post. Good on the old fella.

[Lefty Two Drams]

PGM said:

Fair play to the guy!

I'm sure OP doesn't really want his wife to die, just a joke?

Well done, you interpreted it correctly.

The main point of my post was to showcase how an old fella has decided to get over the horrendous grief by having some fun and realising unfulfilled dreams of fast cars and bikes.

I hope if it comes to it I will do the same.

[glazbagun]

freecar said:

Really? Thinking about having a nice car and you can happily wish your wife away? Why wait, if she dies earlier you can be picking up totty in your new car.

Maybe it's because my mum is dying and I can see my dad having to come to terms with the love of his life going away for good that I think this is by far one of the most selfish, misguided posts ever made on pistonheads.

I really hope your wife doesn't read this.

Yeah, I'd guess it's that. Sorry to hear about your parents, it's something I worry about a disproportionate amount of the time, but black humour has been kicking around since forever and isn't going to be going away any time soon.

[anonymous-user]

I think we can all cut freecar some slack

[PGM]

My wife and I have a bit of banter about this now and again, works both ways in our family! She's going to buy a horse and Gary Barlow apparently.

[Lefty Two Drams]

Dave_ST220 said:

I think we can all cut freecar some slack

I would normally have accused him of a sense-of-humour-bypass or having a whoosh moment but won't in this instance.

Oops.

[Pied Piper]

I guessed it was tongue in cheek, my father passed away a couple of years ago and my mother has just had the extension on the house completed he would never let her have, she still misses him as do I.

ETA I have just checked on the wifes life insurance and it's worth a secondhand Vantage, now she's scared

Edited by Pied Piper on Wednesday 14th April 15:25

[Lefty Two Drams]

I've got a 300k policy on mrs drams.

500k on me though. Hope I don't get an anti-freeze curry one night...

[ZesPak]

Haha I got a life insurance on my house I bought 3 years ago.
I get married in september, if I die after that the house will be hers without any further payments.

I'm getting scared now I'll be worth over 200k dead.

To the op: fair play on the guy indeed! Hope it helps getting over his grief.

[al1991]

Good luck to the guy, much better way of dealing with grief than wallowing.

[JQ]

Completely agree with the OP, good on the guy. It's 12 months since my mum passed away and this post made me smile.

My dad's spent years in some quite boring cars, despite being an avid car enthusiast. Currently driving a 12 year old CLK 200 (very very slow), and prior to that he had a Saab 9-5. However since my mum passed away he's got the shortlist down to a Porsche Cayman S or the new E Class Coupe (E350). He's also taken up cyclng in quite a serious way and spends a couple of days a week pounding some serious miles - it's his 70th in a few weeks time.

Don't worry I'm sure the majority reading the OP took it in the way it was meant.

[Monkeylegend]

al1991 said:

Good luck to the guy, much better way of dealing with grief than wallowing.

Well he may be doing a bit of wallowing in that DB9. Good luck to the guy, bet his wife would be pleased if she knew.

[Lefty Two Drams]

Monkeylegend said:

Good luck to the guy, bet his wife would be pleased if she knew.

Precisely. He's not had much pleasure from life for the last few years. No kids, so what's he gonna do with the money?

I really admire him for getting on with it, fresh start and his no-fking-about, you-only-live-once attitude.

[ZesPak]

Lefty Two Drams said:

Monkeylegend said:

Good luck to the guy, bet his wife would be pleased if she knew.

Precisely. He's not had much pleasure from life for the last few years. No kids, so what's he gonna do with the money?

I really admire him for getting on with it, fresh start and his no-fking-about, you-only-live-once attitude.

I'd get me a fast motorcycle then, as I've sworn never to ride one as long as I got something to live for.

[JQ]

Completely agree with the OP, good on the guy. It's 12 months since my mum passed away and this post made me smile.

My dad's spent years in some quite boring cars, despite being an avid car enthusiast. Currently driving a 12 year old CLK 200 (very very slow), and prior to that he had a Saab 9-5. However since my mum passed away he's got the shortlist down to a Porsche Cayman S or the new E Class Coupe (E350). He's also taken up cyclng in quite a serious way and spends a couple of days a week pounding some serious miles - it's his 70th in a few weeks time.

Don't worry I'm sure the majority reading the OP took it in the way it was meant.