Driving Miss Dulcie IX

'Jaxy' is not well. She has had a big lie in for 5 weeks, while Will has been off, and when he came to starting her again she wasn't having any of it and just coughed.He has a man coming on Friday to tinker with her nuts so until then our only wheels are 'Roxy'.All that was a the long way round to saying I had to take him to work this morning.....Thankfully it was a cooler night and I had managed to get some sleep but still felt like the walking dead at 7.00 am.I got back at 7.30 ish and Dulcie was up making her breakfast!!!!! What is going on?"Well, I woke up at 6.30 am and once I am awake I can't get back to sleep.""So, what about all those times we have had to wake you at 10.00 and you are lying in bed fast asleep with your clothes on having got up and got dressed?".....is what I wanted to say....but didn't."What time do we have to pick Bill up?""About 4.00 pm" I said, "But we'll set off at 3.00 and go to the bank."Dulcie had decided yesterday that she wanted to go to the bank on the way....it was a good idea.3.00 arrived. I got her walker ready."Oh, I don't think I will need that," she said."Well, if there is a big queue at the bank it's useful because you can sit on it."We got into the car."Oh, forget about the bank," she puffed, "just let's go and pick Bill up.""But we will be too early if we go now. We've set off now so we have time to go to the bank," I said."Oh, right then."We were halfway there."I better just check to see if I have my bank book with me," she said.I tried to concentrate on my driving while she unzipped and zipped zips to look for it."Yes, there it is."It was a relief."Just park in that space there," she said in the car park.....it was the space I was going to park in anyway but said."O.K."I went to get the walker out."Oh, I don't think I will need that.""But if there is a bit of a wait you will be able to sit down."She took it off me and set off but I had to go back and shut up the boot of the car. Thankfully she had been halted by a kerb. I found her holding onto her walker staring at the kerb as if she was trying to lower it by the power of her mind.....I lifted the walker up the kerb and we were off again.It was lovely and cool inside because of the air conditioning. There were two people in the queue but they soon went off to the tellers."I'd better get my bank book out," she said and started on the zips."Next!" It was Bruce."Oh, we better go Bruce is waiting, " I said.She stuffed her purse back in her walker and we walked over.She got her purse out and started on the zips again......."Now where was it?"She unzipped and zipped various pockets but couldn't find it.....the tension was rising......I leaned in to try and help and started to unzip and zip pockets myself.....One pocket was completely empty and that was the pocket that I thought it was in.'Crikey! It's not here! ' I thought and then......we found it.....in a tiny pocket that you wouldn't think it would even fit into.She asked to withdraw some money......I reminded her that she wanted it in £50, $20, $10 and $5's because last time she had just got it all in $50's and it was a bit of a pain to find change.She suddenly started on the purse zips again."What did I do with my bank book?" She was concerned."You gave it to Bruce," I said."Oh yes," she said and zipped her purse up again."How do you want it," asked Bruce."A bit of each," she said. Bruce disappeared into the back. He probably had to descend to the vault with a large key to retrieve the cash."This is lovely isn't it?" She said gripping the transparent screen and wobbling it with her hand, " I think it's bullet proof glass."The way it wobbled it certainly did not appear to be bullet proof glass. I had a fiddle myself and discovered it was plastic and cheap plastic at that.Bruce came back up from the vault and counted out the money. She put it in her purse, tossed it in her walker and thanked Bruce."Lovely to see you," he said, "take care.""Oh, I always do, Bruce," she said and she was off. I almost had to jog to keep up with her. It's a good job the sliding door slid open because she would have smashed straight through.We drove to pick up Will from work."Look at the the length of that grass. I don't know how people can live with grass that long. It's disgrace."We passed a church with a sign that said "Body piercing saved my life!""Lovely church. When I went round Australia I took lots of pictures of churches. I like churches."We were a bit early for Will.....(but actually it turned out we were late because he had texted to ask us to come early but I had not seem the message.)"Do you fancy having a walk inside and seeing where he works?" I asked.She shook her head.....she'd had enough exercise for one day."I'm tired, Nick.""Well, you were up at 7.30," I said.