CC – Carole’s car | The Traveling Kiwi

CC – Carole’s car

Mum has not been able to drive for over 18 months and finally was unable to renew her license in January. The plan was for me to take the car back with me but every time I came to take it she couldn’t remember that she couldn’t drive so she couldn’t let it go. Finally we realised that seeing it every day wasn’t as much a comfort as a trigger to want to drive it. We had taken away the key but she would find other keys and try and open it, breaking a random key off in the lock. So I packed it up yesterday and drove off into the sunshine. Very tough for her to finally let it go and we know it will take many reminders over months for her to remember where it’s gone if she ever does. Our biggest concern is that she will go look for it and call the police cos she thinks it’s stolen. I have photos on the fridge and doors to remind her but she is also good at taking them off. I am sending photos of CC ( Carole’s Car) to her photo frame with notes of the journey and CC will send her postcards weekly over the next month or two, she loves getting mail and hopefully it will slowly sink in that the car is gone. On my part it’s a trip I love and one I haven’t driven in a long time. I don’t have a car of my own so it’s going to give me a whole lot of freedom to have CC come live with me.