Do you love your car?

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Do you take care of it yourself? Is it just another possession or would you grieve for it if you totalled it?

-- Anonymous, March 06, 2000

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Huh, I never really thought about it, probably because my car still runs really well. I would be sad if it died, though.

Peter's been talking about getting a new car, though, and I really will miss his car. He has a powder-blue 1984 Honda Civic, with no front bumper. There's some piping somewhere missing, so whenever he turns the steering wheel, the car says "EEEEEEERRRRGGH!!!". There hasn't been any windshield-wiper solution in there since 1997, when the pump that squirts the fluid out broke. Whenever the wipers are on, they screech like an air-raid siren (driving the car in the rain is fun, between the wiper screech and the steering wheel screech. "EEEE! EEEE! EEEERGGGGHHHH!!!!! EEE! EEEE!"). It has something like 190,000 miles on it. The car needs to be laid to rest.

But yet, I really love the car. We both have the *exact* same bumper stickers on our cars (an apple sticker, and a purple cat sticker). I hate to drive to the city, so we take the Civic any time we go anywhere. It reluctantly takes us to Tahoe every year, thought it's getting harder and harder for it to make it over the mountain. :( Poor thing.

-- Anonymous, March 06, 2000


I do love my car. My '95 Saturn was a new-to-me car just over two years ago. The car that served me through college was on its last legs (wheels?) and we had formed a love-hate relationship. The ties were easily broken when I met the Saturn. It may not be brand new or big ego car, but it is completely reliable and has just enough of those little extras (power windows and locks, intermittant wipers, cup holders, leather seats and anti-theft)to be a dream car to me. We rolled over 40K this month. I hope to see another 40K go by.

-- Anonymous, March 06, 2000

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