My White Magna

This is a true story about my white 1988 mitsubishi magna sedan and all the trouble it put me through. Some people may say that its my fault but i say that the magna was cursed because nothing but bad luck came to me when i had it and ive had no trouble with my new car.

It all started when i bought my first car, a white magna for $1200 dollars. I was going to learn how to drive in it and use it till it died. My first year with it was fine, a few things wrong with the motor but you can expect that from an old car. It wasnt until i got my P's, thats when things went bad. My first bad experience with the magna was the week i was doing work placement at the commercial club, the second week after having got my P's. I had finished for the day and was going home. I was looking for a piece of paper that was on my passenger seat that had the address of Selby Watson. I needed to pay a bill there. I was coming up to the roundabout at gurwood street which is where selby and watson are. As i was coming up to the roundabout i still couldnt find the paper with the address. I remember looking up and seeing i had plenty of time to find it before the roundabout. The second time i looked up i saw a car on the right coming at me then bang, it hit me. My second week of driving and already in a crash. I took responsibility for it and the guy wasnt angry. We parked out front of the advertiser and got someone from the advertiser to call the police because both i and the other driver thought you had to call the cops to report the accident. When the cops arrived they were nice and said that we should just exchange detail because if we got them involved someone would get a fine for negligence and that would be me.So we exchanged details and went our separate ways. After the other drive had left I looked straight across the road and saw Selby and Watson. Just my luck. The damage to his car ended up costing me just over $2000 and I didn’t fix my car because there wasn’t much damage and it wasn’t worth it. I was lucky this time with the cops but I wasn’t so lucky the next time.

The easter long weekend. I was coming home from the Kooringal shopping mall and found that cops had set up a random breath test the way I go home. I thought it would be cool to be breath tested and I knew I hadn’t been drinking in the last 24 hours. As I drove by sure enough they pulled me over. I pulled behind a cop car. There was about 4 of them, two on each side of the road. As I took the breath test I looked ahead to see a smug looking cop leaning on the car. I could tell right away he was an asshole. After I passed my breath test the smug cop got off the car, walked up to my window and told me to press my accelerator. Not seeing the harm in it I did. He looked at my car funny and asked me to do it again. After doing it two more times he looked under the car and told me I had four holes in my muffler. So he then starts accusing me of modifying my crappy car by putting four holes in the muffler with an ice pick which would incur a $200 on the spot fine. Luckily he left it to the cop who gave me the breath test to decide what to do. I had no idea the holes were there and have no idea how to modify a car in any way. So the cop gave me a defect notice so I had to get my muffler fixed in two weeks or I couldn’t drive my car. After I got home I had a look for myself. I saw what looked like hole in the muffler so I got a stick and checked they were holes. They weren’t. I took my car to the mechanic and he said they were just welding dents. So I had to pay the mechanic and go to the RTA to get rid of my defect notice. In the end it only cot me $17 but it was just annoying and was nothing compared to my next encounter with the police.

It was the Queens birthday long weekend. I was driving some friends around to parties. It was raining. I made the mistake of letting someone I don’t like in my car which over loaded it, four in the back and one in the front. There’s a loophole in the law saying two people can use a seatbelt so I thought the people in the back were wearing seatbelts. I was wrong. I was just driving back to a party when I saw a cop turn into the street and follow me. I was nervous because of the people in the back so I pulled over before the cops signalled me over. I always said to myself if I was pulled over with people in the car I would check if they had seatbelts on but when it actually happens it slips your mind. The cop came over and breathalysed me and then noticed the people in the back not wearing seatbelts. I thought they took them off when we pulled over but one of my friends admitted to not wearing one. Another luckily argued out of it while the other two including the person I now hat didn’t really say anything. The funny thing was that the people in the back were drinking and they were under aged but the cops didn’t care. They got id’s from me and three of the people in the back, sat in the their car for a while then came back with infringement notices for us. $225 fines for the people in the back and a $725 fine for me, 12 points off my licence because of double demerits and loss of licence for 3 months (I still currently have no points on my licence so I have to be very careful when driving). The people in the back agreed to even the fines by giving me $100 each but only one gave it to me, the guy who admitted to not wearing his belt. the most annoying part was the loss of licence. I would have paid triple the fines as long as I didn’t lose my licence. That was the last straw. Since I didn’t loose my licence straight away I bought a new car and my friend said he’d buy my magna. Heres the kicker, since he’s bought it hes been pulled over at kapooka for speeding and just last week he got pulled over for speeding again. $700 fine and 3 points off his licence not to mention all the things hes been hitting but that may just be his bad driving. The curse lives on…..
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