There she goes
Wednesday October 07th 2015, 9:25 pm
Filed under: Friends,Life,Mango tree

(Mango tree today, lowest, next branch up, and top, rollover notes for details.)

It was a bit of an adventure but it is done: the van is sold and gone.

My next-door neighbor happened to be outside as a crew of strangers were soaping and hosing it down after the grand trek to the DMV and were making it beautiful (wow, they really did–I had no idea it could still look that nice) and I got to tell them how happy I was that it was going to a new family that would make good use of it again, as she added her enthusiasm to the idea. It had served us well.

It felt surprisingly difficult in those last few seconds to watch it being driven away. If I ever see it again on the road, I won’t even know–it’ll have plates (I think it already does) that it never had with us.

How do we get so attached to something so transitory and meaningless, something of no life. And the only answer is because my kids grew up with it.

The neighbor asked what we were replacing it with; I laughed and said, What we are or what I wish? What we are, probably (and I motioned zero). For now, anyway. Too many home repairs to do.

Now, a Tesla. If it were a Tesla I could definitely understand getting too attached to that. The X-model SUV as long as I’m totally dreaming.

Maybe it’s just as well we’ve got a humble little nine-year-old Prius. It’s a good little car and it serves the two of us well.


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Oh, we do share many values! The Tesla is high on our list for replacing our 17 year old Saturn. But not quite yet – tomorrow that car goes in to the shop to see if we can convince the windshield wipers from randomly turning on (and not turning off until they decide to on their own, as well). It has a few more miles left in it…I think! (Or maybe I should say “I hope”!

Comment by twinsetellen 10.08.15 @ 7:14 pm



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