The Boy has developed a new obsession, this time with one of these:

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That, my friends, is a toy Honda Civic.  But he’s not obsessed with the toy one, oh no.  He actually wants to buy one of these:

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Yep, that’s a REAL (top of the range, of course) Honda Civic. It costs around £26,000.  He’s saving his pocket money.

Apparently Honda Civics are COOL.  Black ones are COOLER.  They are COOLER than Mummy’s car, which up to now has been the COOLEST.  Apparently when (!) my car breaks down he will come and pick me up in his COOL black Honda Civic.

We cannot go anywhere without the request to drive past the nearest Honda forecourt or the playing of the popular travel game “I Spy (With My Little Eye) a Honda Civic”. He studies SubHub’s car magazines and tells anyone who will listen (and those who didn’t want to but are kind of forced into it) that he’s saving to buy one.  Long gone is the obsession with the Monster Truck game on my iPhone; now he likes to customise his own Civic on the Honda app.

We actually had tears before school on Friday because he didn’t want to be taken in a lowly Ford Fiesta Titanium, even though it is black and has automatic fold-in mirrors (previously his favourite thing).  Oh no, I was instructed to go out and buy a Civic before breakfast so he could turn up in a COOL car and not an EMBARRASSING car (charming!).

If he asks me one more time how many months it is before he can learn to drive or tells me life’s not fair because he can’t do it right now, I think I might cry.  He’s gone all Kevin the Teenager on me.

By the way, this is not a sponsored post.  But if Honda would like to provide me with a Civic, preferably a top of the range one in black, I know one member of my family who will be happy to accept.