Upsized!
So I ordered a Suzuki Swift rental car, to be picked up at the airport on arrival. It was late, dark and raining when I arrived. “We don’t have a Swift for you,” they said, “we have upsized your vehicle at no extra cost.” Fine, I thought, imagining a sedan with a little more grunt. Not so. In the dark, as the rain fell gently and I pushed the key to see which car would burst into life, a LARGE Holden Accordia lit up. I wasn’t upsized, I was up, up, UP-sized!!! Gigantic upsized! I had never driven anything so big. I was way out of my comfort zone, so far in fact I didn’t even know how to start the beast! Our bags, which would have challenged the Swift, rattled around forlornly in the back corner of the beast. We climbed in. I stared at the array of switches and instruments in front of me wondering if flying a Boeing aircraft was simpler than this. Nervous laughter and panic fluttered through me. I hailed a passing stranger an...