Are you a “glass half full” person?

Photo: Our local heron is back, perched in the Allan Water river.


I like to think of myself as a “glass half full person” but this morning I was a “glass half empty”.
Why?
My 13-year-old car, a Fiesta, had to have its annual MOT. For weeks I have been driving around with a yellow warning sign on the dashboard. To put it through a diagnostic test cost £180 and that’s before any repairs.

I resigned myself to it failing .
.

The phone rang at 11 o’clock. That’s early. A bad sign. 
“It’s the garage,” says the woman at the other end of the line.  Her voice is low and measured as if about to impart bad news.

“It’s about your car.”
 
“Yes” I croak, sitting down with my cup of morning coffee prepared for the inevitable.
 "It’s past its MOT. When would you like to collect it?”
 I am stunned.

But this is  not the time to tell her about that friendly  man at the local “tip” who helped me unload stuff last week.
He looked the kind of guy who “knows about cars”.
Had he any idea why there is this yellow light on one of the instrument panels?

“Oh yes” he says. “Give me your keys.”
He jumped in and started pumping the brake and accelerator alternatively.
He switched on the engine. The yellow light disappeared.

“It’s all on Youtube” he said mysteriously.
That was six days ago.