Cars

OH. MY. VROOM-NESS.

I feel like we’ve been here before, but Week of Our Lives seems to have so many episodes centered around cars that I find it hard to keep up with all of them. There are literally thousands of episodes now, so I can’t be expected to remember all those summaries! That’s what the archive section of the forums is all about, although be careful. It’s quite the rabbit hole if you let yourself fall in too deep.

So, cars. This time they really did something quite different by having a bottle episode set at a car fair. Not a convincing car fair, by any means. I think all the people who were supposed to be Ringwood auto mechanics in the background might have been mannequins being moved by strings, and all the cars were just cardboard cutouts according to the girls on the forums. Didn’t actually notice myself, but why would you be looking at that stuff when this was the day when Annaliese finally decided to propose…to herself!

Yes, Annaliese came to the car fair because her split personality is super into roadworthy checks and tyre replacement. However, while there, she and her split personality had a big falling out over whether a VicRoads check is better than one you’d find in South Australia. It was their biggest ever fight, and as a result, Annaliese pulled out the ring she was going to use to propose and used it on…herself. That is, she proposed to her real self, her prime personality, in an act of self-care and self-affirmation so very great that her split personality vanished entirely.

Wow. In terms of accurately representing mental health on-screen, I’m thinking this one won’t be counted as a win. But if you’re looking for quality vehicle inspections near Ringwood, it was a rousing endorsement of their services, because Annaliese Prime was in favour of Victorian RWCs and she pretty handily won that argument.

She won so hard that the opposing side ceased existing entirely. And now we’re awaiting the sounds of wedding bells!

-Leticia

Well, there’s Sandrine on leave again. We should’ve seen this coming, because she was actually doing a lot of the same things as last time. The only difference is that she was burning herself out by acting nice, and actually being helpful and productive, so it’s a shame that she worked so hard. She got a bit erratic in the last few days, and the smile really did look like it’d been programmed onto her face. It was clearly the stress of trying to be a different, much nicer person.

I think the last straw was Damien, pushing things too far as per usual. He has this idea that he HAS to compile a list of car servicing centres Bendigo residents can trust. I don’t know, I think he grew up mechanic parents, so now he doesn’t trust anyone except the place where he used to get his car servicing done before he moved to Melbourne. Also, he’s a notorious slacker.

Sandrine is running herself ragged trying to be nice to everyone, and there’s Damien trying to stretch things by saying that he’ll be in late, due to having to go all the way to Bendigo to assess the car air conditioning regas options on offer there.

Like, is that a thing, or is he just skiving off? I looked it up, and apparently it’s a thing, but it doesn’t need to be done that often and we’re just moving into winter, so Damien can’t possibly be implying that he needs it done right away. The weather just cooled!

Anyway, Damien just said that to Sandrine like she’d be totally okay with it, all casual. She considered it for a very long time, with that frozen smile, before turning on her heel and walking out the door like a robot. I hope Damien had fun with his Bendigo auto mechanic, because he might have ruined the best thing that ever happened to our office. Maybe Sandrine just needs a bit of rest? Let’s hope.

-Drew