My boyfriend works for a UK contract hire company supplying cars, vans and trucks mainly to business customers. He really loves his work but he can’t stop talking about it and cars are about all he ever talks about.
Every night I have to listen to him enthusiastically extolling the virtues of the latest hot deal available from his showroom. He is a complete petrol-head (I think the Americans call them gear heads) who avidly watches every motoring programme on television. At weekends he takes me out, but only to various motoring events. Basically, if cars aren’t involved, sadly, neither are we.
For last year’s vacation he decided that we would go to the United States. I was beside myself with excitement as I had never visited the United States before. But he had decided we would be attending the NASCAR Sprint Cup Races at the Daytona 500. So I spent my whole holiday listening to various enthusiastic petrol and gear heads talking about brake horse power, performance figures and the like. Not only that, all we had to eat for the duration of our stay was fast food so I managed to put on no less than 10 pounds in weight.
So the future of this particular relationship is now looking very uncertain. My man isn’t really such a bad chap. He can be very caring and attentive, but he also has a tendency to become obsessive about things he is passionate about. Currently his focus is cars. I’ve been wondering what it would be like if we both shared the same interests, but I can’t see him developing a taste for shopping, womens clothes and make up any time soon.
I suppose it’s time for an open and honest heart-to-heart talk. I need to tell him that I am really not interested in going to every motoring event on the U.K. calendar. Nor am I happy to spend my holiday breathing petrol ad exhaust fumes. I want to be wined and dined and I want to relax in the sunshine when I’m on holiday. Instead I’ve become an expert on the latest Audi Contract Hire deals and the performance figures of various BMWs.
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