The week creeps to a close. Thank God. It's been a bitch of a five days. Going to Milwaukee on Wednesday sucked in principle, but wasn't so bad in practice. I like the drive, and despite all my complaining, when I'm up very early, and I'm actually awake and alert, I enjoy the peacefulness of dawn. I also love the open road, so combine the two, and you have something decent, for work anyway.
I have been thinking a lot about a new car. My dad has been riding me for a few months to start thinking about handing over my car (which he paid for, so really, his car) to my sister and getting a new one for myself. I'm torn between the fancy idealism of getting a new car and the realities of all the payments and shit. I'm not going to make the shift for awhile for a few reasons:
1) I don't know when I'm moving on and getting my own place and where that might be. Will there be a parking spot? Will I even need a car or will I be able to get around on city transportation?
2) I'm torn between getting a cool, new car, like the Audi quattro that I saw up close last weekend and a hybrid because of my geo-green ideas on energy and politics. If I choose the Audi or something non-hybrid because I like it better aesthetically, does that make me a hypocrite?
3) My car ain't broke, so why fix it? Things are fine as they are, and my sister doesn't need her own car right now, primarily since she's a horrible driver and already has caused damage to my car by simply backing out of the garage at an angle and tearing off the front fender. Sometimes I don't drive it for a day or two because I walk to and from the train which I take to and from work and if I go out after work, I'm either picked up or I take the last car in the driveway, which usually isn't mine, due to said cycle. So as it stands, I usually only buy gas once a month, unless I drive to Milwaukee or to a lakehouse, and so I'm meeting my self-imposed petroleum conservation quota. Disrupting that (status) quo would reverse the progress I've made.
This weekend, I have to get my oil changed and take my car to get the emissions tested. And, providing it doesn't rain, I have to take it to Fuller's. They really do a great wash over there. Expensive but well worth it.
Maybe eventually Stan, our cheap mechanic, will finally paint the black fender silver to match the rest of the car so it doesn't look like I'm driving some hastily put-together jalopy.
As I write this, there is a distinct fish food smell emanating from Danette/Sharise's cube next door. Today she spent a half hour on the phone repeating the phrase, "You roll with your family, because we can fuck you up." Ah, the brilliance of one-side of a phone conversation.
Smell ya later.
4 comments:
My advice, buy a newer used car, and forget about the hybrids, the cost/benefit ratio is not there. You have to drive many, many miles to pay for the "hybrid premium"
I bought my focus with 4500 miles for 8 grand less than it stickered for new.
Scion tC, mazda 3, both are nice
but no car is even better
-Tees
I think Joe had an A4, not a quattro? not sure, though.
dude, repub's can't be green. we're supposed to rub black oil on mother nature's neck.
if you're moving in to the city, no car needed.
Eric, I think you're right about the A4. I misspoke. It was a sweet ride, and the first time I'd seen one up close. Got me thinking.... Dude, pubs can be green as long as it fits in with everything else! Geo-politically, it'd be great not to prop up regimes like Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Venezuela, and Norway (just kidding). There are many other reasons, but I think conserving a little is something we all could and should do. Reducing oil prices would be sweeeet.
Tees, you sage, you. It is insane how much cheaper used cars are just a year after they're new. Perfectly good cars for a great deal (really what they should initially cost off the lot). In all probability, when I get a "new" car it will be used. But we'll see.
I'm sitting here watching this rollercoaster Cubs game feeling a little crestfallen that we lost our two run lead. And now I realize that it's 9:15 on a Friday night, no one's around, and once this game is over, I got nothin.
Hope Reteif Goosen wins again; I just like the name, but he does have a nice swing. My dad said some golfers who usually swear off the Western Open are signing up this year. Might have to make another trip to Olympia Fields in a couple weeks.
Kendall Gill is boxing (!) next Saturday at the Aragon Ballroom (!). Who's in?
Long comment. And I bet no one reads it.
Read, because its Saturday morning, been up since 5 and have nothing to do.
Already washed the car, now its time to fathers day shop.
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