Margaret tries to organise an unlikely love affair after Victor takes to the road, and a disaster of truly biblical proportions descends when the Meldrews are invited to Ronnie and Mildred's for the evening. In addition, a visit to the dentist goes horribly wrong.

Nick hires a nurse to help him cope with his mother, and he finds the nurse very attractive and she also flirts with him. The nurse drops by to aid Margaret when Victor scalds himself on their new but unpredictable shower, but is more excited about ready-minted frozen peas then Victor's scald.

Victor mentions to the nurse that he's been looking for a job as a driver, and her partner hires him. Unfortunately typically all doesn't go smoothly: Victor's employer has three lovely shiny and brand-new cars (at the start of his employment) but one by one each is destroyed by different unfortunate catastrophes. Firstly Victor argues with some rugby players who parked across two parking spaces, so they take revenge by turning his car over after Victor first just managed to rescue it from being wrecked in a carwash! The second car suffers an accident at Ronnie and Mildred's when Victor drives into the garage which has been dug out to cure the house's subsidence. Then Victor narrowly avoids a crash when a wasp escapes from his dental dressing (yes!); he runs the car off the road but it's safe and well until an army tank flattens it...