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Like a Volvo, I start predicting disaster long before it happens

How many things can possibly go wrong with a car?

26 April 2014

9:00 AM

26 April 2014

9:00 AM

The mechanic hooked the Volvo up to his special laptop. He had kindly offered to come to me in order to diagnose the different warning codes that were flashing on the dashboard. After about an hour, I asked him if he was sure he didn’t want a coffee.

‘No, I’m fine,’ he shouted from inside the car.

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