You will all be happy to know that I have ceased being a big baby and am going out to lunch with a whole crew of people from my new department. Sadly, the cube walls won?t be coming down for a few more weeks.
So the clyde ordeal is turning into the giant clyde debacle of 2001. Well, really it?s not?I just treat it like a debacle. I took clyde over to sister #2’s and ben took a look. According to ben’s infinite wisdom (and that’s not sarcasm) clyde has “a mad power steering leak” and a minor oil leak, but he doesn?t know why the check engine light keeps randomly turning on. He advised me to quit being such a big baby and buy a new car.
Yikes! A new car? Born in 1988, clyde is the newest car I’ve ever owned. My dearly departed and still adored sugar was a 1979 chrysler new yorker. Sugar had over 300,000 miles on her when she went to the giant parking lot in the sky. I actually weeped when I had to clean her out for the final time. My friends and family treated me as though I had just lost a good friend, and I had. Sugar and I saw lots of things together and I remember the sunny may day when she finally passed 300,000 miles. U2’s “she moves in mysterious ways,” song was on the radio. It was a good day.
So yes, now I must save all my pennies for a down payment on a new car. I had my heart set on a blazer, but the brothers-in-law quickly put the ol’ kibosh on that. I hate when they agree. I hate even more when they agree and they never even consulted each other and it makes what they say all the more logical and rational sounding.
After much wailing and nashing of teeth, I am aiming for a juneish deadline for a new car. I hate being in debt. This will be my first car loan ever.
However, I am most excited about getting to name a new car. It makes me shiver with delight. Everyone keeps asking me what I will name the new car, as if these things can be chosen ahead of time. You can’t name a car until you meet it. I really hope I don?t get a car with a dumb name. My friend, the mad scientist, told me if I get into a car and it feels like it would have a dumb name, I should just get out and try another name.
Which seems to make a lot of sense. But usually one can’t name a car until they’ve driven it for at least 20 minutes or so. Clyde’s name came that quickly, so did sugar’s. I am hoping I get a car named Araby or Simon. . . I don?t want to end up with a Steve or a Sully.
dood. you’re so weird.
and i watched a bit of dawson’s creek last night. joey is totally not pregnant. she hasn’t even been tested yet. it’s all just a bunch of crap. and then i had to leave before felicity came on. so sad. i need a tivo.
i like simon. i’m getting a new car this summer, but drew already has it named sophie II. sophie I met an untimely death several years ago. i still miss albert, my first car. he died young, but we had a great time together. as for my current car, greta, i’m not that attached. i associate her with a lot of negative things, so i don’t think i’ll be too broken up when the day comes.
Just don’t buy and Elmer. Or a Gus. They’ll just bring you heartache.
Or a Mitsubishi, come to think of it.
Cherise has over a 100,000 miles on her and I’m hoping she makes it another 100,000. I would also like a house with a two car garage so she and Melvin — Jason’s car — could shack up together.
well, she did take the test and it was negative, did you miss that part? and felicity sucked giant bootie once again. the goth chick wanted to smooch on some messy haired chick, the almost died chick has got the full-court press on felicity’s cutie and that was about it.
Felicity’s cutie is the only reason to watch the show.
I agree with Skattieboy. Do not get a Mitsubishi. They suck giant donkey balls as a wise woman once said.
My unnamed car has 167,000 miles and has promised me to make it to 300,000. Because I don’t want to ever have to buy a new car. My credit also sucks giant donkey balls.
I recently had this same conundrum. I went out and boght an 84 Toyota van and promptly named him Billy. He’s gt many miles and rides like a stagecoach. Perfect for me. I like cars as people but have never bought into the idea that I am my car and my car is me.
i didnt watch the whole show. but i was so right.
you think felicity wants to go out on a date with me?