when the full horror of what had happened had sunk in and larry had recognised his impotence to rescue his beloved machine from the coming onslaught of the british weather he stood in the car park and jumped up and down , clenching his fists and going progressively more purple in the face , much to the amusement of the entire first year of undergraduates who at that moment were all disgorging from a late lecture on the dull politics of nineteenth-century spain and were delighted to be treated to a spot of light relief .