Sometimes in life you get lemons, and its what you do with them that makes a difference, this time I decided to make lemonade.
I have had a rough few days, nothing had seemed to go my way and like most Sundays we took a trip to a carboot to see what bargains we could find.
There was a little family who had set up their carboot in the corner of the field and they seemed to have the least amount of buyers because of where they were.
We took a walk towards them and looked at their stall and they had a few things that took my interest. one of them been a scalextric boxed.
I remember been a kid and my dad bringing me home a scalextric set and I was so happy seeing the cars zooming past me and sometimes jumping over the rails and on to the floor it was great fun.
I reached down and started to look at the set when the little girl said to me, "it's never been opened, it was an unwanted gift".
I could see that the box was a little battered but other than that it still had the same security seal on it as they do when in the shops.
"how much for it" I asked, and the little girl went and got her mum. her mum came to me and said that they were there to sell everything and didn't want to take home with them.
"you can have it for 50p" "what?????????"
I bought a scalextric for 50p
I decided today to put it up for the kids to play with and we had hours of fun with it, my two year old laughed so hard when the cars went off the track just like I did when I was a young lad.
Inside the box was just like the girl had said, everything was still in their bags, the instructions where there, it was a brand new scalextric set.
I didn't realise how much fun we could all have from something that only cost us 50p. I am so happy with it and my kids didn't want to go to bed tonight as they wanted to continue playing with it.
It was well worth the money that we spent on it, and I am now on the look out for some more cars to go on the track.