Today, I finally said goodbye to an old friend. My car. I know this sounds crazy and this post is going to be crazy too. Some people do get attached to their cars. I am one of them. Of course I get attached to other things too, like a particular coffee cup, an old pair of shorts and things like that.
So I got attached to a car, so what. I drove it for a long time. First it started out as Mom’s car. She bought it when it was brand new in 1992. At that time I had a little truck that I was attached to. But after Nosey was born, my little truck just gave out on me. Mom was looking for a new car so when she found one, she gave me hers to drive, the Oldsmobile. So, I have had this car since 1998. It was a great car, not a thing wrong with it. Not too many miles on it either. But now lets see, it was in 1998 that I started driving it, and it is now 2007. I guess around 2000, little things started going wrong. The transmission started leaking a little, we had that fixed. The power steering went out, we had that fixed. It over heated, we got that fixed. Lots of things started taking a toll on the poor old thing. The last time I remember the speed odometer working, it had 212,000 miles on it. That could have been 3 years ago. Since it has a digital display, no one knows exactly how many miles it has collected since then.
So, anyway the car started leaking antifreeze really bad last year and we grounded it. I started driving Bud’s truck and the olds sat for a year. Earlier this year, Bud got a different car for me to drive. I guess because the Olds was tired, and his truck was about to get tired. Now my brother is in need of some kind of reliable transportation so this morning, Bud loaded it up and took it to him so he could repair a few things and hopefully have a good car. It won’t need alot done, but it will take some money and time.
So this post is kinda about the car, but it is also about “keeping it in the family”. That car is 15 years old. I hope brother can keep it going now. Mom passed it to me, now I pass it to brother. Even though it was deemed “the toxic waste dump”, it was my car for a while, and yes I will miss it. I would though like to see it running on the road again. Bye my “toxic waste dump”.
