I am not a translator — I am only “learning,” but my “studies” with Norwegian will last until the end of my life. Oh well! Still, I do have a desire to read in Norwegian the little newspaper that my husband, early in the morning before he leaves for work, quietly brings me, without disturbing my sweet morning sleep.
So I read, and I am not too lazy to open my dictionary, which weighs about as much as a brick. I have already written that I became a car enthusiast in Norway. And I continue to take an interest in the automobile theme. I can already tell a Mercedes from a Toyota, and I can even name the latest Tesla models. 🤣 But closer to the point!
I will set out the contents of the article. The beginning: a pregnant woman believed she had bought the car of her dreams in Arendal. And… from that moment the mouse nightmare began. The mouse nest that was found in her car was only the beginning of her nightmare.
Now a lawyer continues to handle a case that costs 250 thousand kroner (25 thousand euros), to settle the dispute between buyer and seller over a car whose repair would cost 35 thousand kroner. Pregnant with her fifth child, she needed to buy a larger car.
In an advertisement on the popular Norwegian site Finn.no she found the car of her dreams in the right colour! (My God, what a delight — to choose a car by the colour she had dreamed of!) Such a car was available at a used-car dealership in the town of Arendal.
While the pregnant woman’s husband was considering a Mercedes minivan as a suitable car, the pregnant wife was very concerned with choosing a car by colour: “Yes, I am a lady, and what worries me most is the colour of the car. Before I had a little blue car, and now I want a little black one.” — that is how she explained her purchase in court.
And besides the black colour, the car had to have an engine — a perpetual-motion engine! And the pregnant woman also wanted her little car to run a whole million kilometres!!! The car she bought was already ten years old, with 200 thousand km on the clock. The article did not give the purchase price.
She turned to a lawyer at the Consumer Council with a demand that the car be returned to the shop. Her lawyer concluded that the car was indeed not in a condition to run another 1 million km. Then the woman asked, as an alternative, that the seller pay her 35 thousand kroner for repairs, and in that case she would keep it. It did not work out.
The woman decided “not to stop” and to go further in court with a lawyer’s help. The legal fees gradually grew to 180 thousand kroner (18 thousand euros) and then another 70 thousand kroner.
The article ends with the car having sat idle for two years already. Several times they tried to repair it. That yellow warning light “comes on,” then “goes off.” And the springs cannot be restored either. I, of course, drew my own conclusion from this article; I think you did too.