10: Drysdale Hotel

After about a year of hard slog, we got it into our minds, that we now deserved a NEW car.

Something we could take away on a couple of weeks break. 

To South Australia or up to NSW. 

Anywhere, just to get away for a break.

And I remembered whilst I was working for Bill Patterson Motors that we owned a company called Grand Prix Motors – BMW.

I loved the look of the little BMW's that they drove as demos.

So, I thought, I’ll get on the phone, ring them up, and find out how much the sexy little BMW 2002 coupes were.

The call was answered and went a bit like this:

“Hi Mr McLeish, where are you calling from?”

“Ah, I'm calling from a place called Drysdale” I said 

“a little hotel just out of Geelong on the Bellarine Peninsular”

“Oh I see, look, how often do you get up to Melbourne?”

I’m the publican here and it’s just a small family business, so I don't get away that often”

“I was wondering if someone could bring one down to me and discuss it, I am a genuine buyer”

“That’s fine, but we wouldn't travel that far” was the reply.

I thought, what a pack of lazy ******* you are,

So after I hung up I thought, well OK, let's see if there's a BMW dealer in Geelong.

Yeah there was.

Same answer,

“how often do you get into Geelong from Drysdale? once a week?

“yeah, well, let us know before you come in and I'll make sure I've got a demo here for you to have a drive in”

“You couldn't bring one out to the pub, could you?”

No, I'm pretty well tide up most days, and there’s only a couple of staff here”

“You know, it would be just a lot easier if you could make it into the dealership”

“OK thanks”

So that was my stint at buying a BMW.

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