10 pennies and 2 shopping trolleys off the old block

Sandie is very good with managing her money. I hadn’t realized how much Maxime was like her until I spoke with her this afternoon. She had taken the car to the garage because we had had a problem with a malfunctioning CD player which rattled every time we drove around a corner. Given that we don’t live in Australia or the Mid-West in the US, this became quite annoying quite quickly. Upon examination it was found that the rattling was due to not one, not two, but twelve different coins (including two plastic shopping trolley tokens) that had been popped into the CD slot. And the price of a new CD player (which turns out to be tightly integrated with the GPS system)? 1500 Euros – now there’s a false economy if ever there was one… In hindsight we should never have given him his first money box for Christmas last year which is no doubt the root cause of this overzealous popping of things into narrow slits. Thankfully for us, Nissan graciously suggested that we claim this under the guarantee!