My wife freakin rules! 🤘 [View all]
So last year, she suggested we put a Lotus spending ban in place. Knowing what I’d spent in mods in three years of owning The Blue Meanie, I readily agreed. Besides, the exterior was one part away from being complete. There was a a spoiler I really wanted from a Japanese company called GUT (pronounced goot). In fact, it was the ONLY spoiler I’d put on my car. But they had stopped manufacturing it before I bought my Lotus. Had to wait for a used one to come up for sale. Of course, one popped up 3 weeks after the spending ban was agreed to. 
Hey babe, uhhmmm, so, like, uhm….can I get some credit against next years spending? Cause these are super rare. She said no. Okay. She let me join a traveling band in my mid 30’s when I should have been climbing corporate ladders. Then she let me buy this ridiculous car. I’m not dying on this hill, you dig? I called the shop who was selling it. One of just a few aftermarket Lotus part suppliers in the country. Knew the owner. Explained the situation and offered a deposit if he’d hold it for me until January. It was early July maybe? As the shop finances his race team, he declined. Needed the cash flow. I get it. No harm, no foul. But nothing ventured, nothing gained, right?
Fast forward to early August. My birthday weekend. I get home before her from the road (I’m a telecom worker, always traveling). I walk into the living room and there’s a huge box against my side of the couch with Happy Birthday Glamrock scrawled across it. (That’s also my nickname in real life due to my days as a hair band singer). I pick it up and it weighs nothing. I’m like what is this? As I’m cutting the tape to open it, it dawns on me. NO! SHE DID NOT!!!! IT CAN’T BE! It was and she did! My wife is thee shit! Waited until Feb. to get it painted and striped per our agreed to spending ban. But for the first time in my life, my car looks exactly like my mind’s eye version! Now it’s saving for custom leather interior and a supercharger!
P.S. had to get these valve stem caps during the last Prime day. Those who know me will not be surprised…
British Invasion, baby! LOL!
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