My boyfriend works for a UK contract hire company supplying cars, vans and trucks mainly to business customers. He really loves his work but he can't stop talking about it and cars are about all he ever talks about.
Every night he comes home raving about the latest incredible deal from his showroom or the latest model of car he has taken for a test drive that day. He is a complete petrol-head (I think the Americans call them gear heads) who avidly watches every motoring programme on television. At weekends he takes me to various motoring related events at Goodwood and elsewhere. It's a sad fact that if cars are not involved, neither are we.
For our vacation last year he decided that we would go to the United States. I was really excited as I'd never been to America before. But he had decided we would be attending the NASCAR Sprint Cup Races at the Daytona 500. So I spent all of my holiday in America breathing exhaust fumes, listening to petrol and gear heads talk incessantly about cars, engines, brake horse power and other incredibly boring topics. Not only that, all we had to eat for the duration of our stay was fast food so I managed to put on no less than 10 pounds in weight.
So I am now in a quandary. My man isn't really such a bad chap. He can be a very caring and attentive man but, like many, he can become obsessive about things, especially cars. Currently his focus is cars. I've wondered if I would be having the same doubts if his interest matched my own, but I somehow can't see him taking much of an interest in shopping, clothes and make-up any time soon.
I suppose it's time for an open and honest heart-to-heart talk. I need to tell him that I am really not interested in going to every motoring event on the U.K. calendar. Nor am I happy to spend my holiday breathing petrol ad exhaust fumes. I want to enjoy a little wining and dining and when I'm on holiday I want to relax in the sunshine. Instead I've become an expert on the latest Audi Contract Hire deals and the performance figures of various BMWs.
