checks were made, and we’d found out the previous ‘driver’ had been using the boot to put ‘game’ in when he’d been out shooting, so the various fluids had leaked into the car. The valeters had a real hard time cleaning it, hence the smell. We had to off hire the car rather than pass it on it was that bad. Driver got a bollocking, but was then given a nice A4 S-Line Estate – he trashed that too.
Oh god, that reminds me. An ex colleague, in the 90’s, was using his company car to pick up various quantities of horsey stuff. Most of the time he’d just sling it in the back, drive around for a couple of days then drop it off at the stables when he was passing, So the car always had a certain “aroma” to it and it drove the regularly sent missives from the fleet manager about what you should, and should not use your company car for.
Came to a head when he borrowed a car that was going to be replaced to move a boot full of well rotted manure from the stables to his garden, a dozen plastic sacks full of dobbins finest output.
He had the sense to line the boot with a couple of tarps, but didn’t account for an emergency stop half way home.
And that is why he became an ex colleague
