Car

we are a prius family now!

We picked up our new car tonight!! We are now the owners of a 2007 Prius hybrid. Push-button start (like booting up a computer), iPod jack built in, GPS navigation, 50MPG, good cup holders. I’m very excited. Here he is in our garage: Poor Prometheus. I think he knew he was about to be replaced. He started shuddering at stoplights today on my way home from work. Looks like we got the new car just in time. One question remains: What do we name the new one? My vote goes to Daedalus or The Aluminum Falcon. Yes I am a big nerd.

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welcome to the 1950s

I had a flat tire yesterday. My dad noticed it as he was taking some stuff out to their car — he and Mom were getting ready to drive back to Houston after spending Thanksgiving with us. My spare was also flat, so Dad drove me and the tire to Firestone to get a new one. I spoke to the guy behind the counter, showed him the paperwork from when I bought the tire only 2 years ago, took him out to Dad’s car to retrieve the flat tire, and stood with him while he determined whether it could to be fixed or if I’d need a new one. A few minutes later, he came back to give me the verdict… and he spoke directly to my father the entire time. My father, who up until now had been standing in the background. It’s not like this guy was old enough to have remembered a time before the women’s movement either.

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blinky mcbroken

My car is smart. A couple of days ago the left turn signal started blinking and clicking at twice the rate of the right. I thought “Oh great… just one more thing to add to the Broken List,” a list that includes Leaky Sunroof When Raining, Barely Working Automatic Windows, Fake Woodgrain Peeling Off, Holes In Pleather Seats, Ancient Multicolored Carpeting That Used To All Be Pretty Light Gray, Clock That Can’t Be Reset, Broken Radio Knobs, and Broken Antenna, for starters. Doc figured out yesterday that it was blinking in doubletime because the front turn-signal light bulb has burned out. How cool is that, letting me know when a light has gone out! Otherwise, how would I ever figure it out? (“No, Officer, I didn’t know my turn signal was broken.” That’s how, probably).

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stolen car dream

i had a really weird dream last night/early this morning, and when i halfway woke up from it i made myself repeat the major plot points out loud so as not to forget them, and lo and behold i think it worked! i decided to drop by brittney’s house unannounced, late at night. she lived in plano, in a house with her mom and i think her sister and brother. it was actually like a combination of brittney and kim. i got in the car and started driving towards the highway. there was a girl walking in the road in front of me, and as i approached i realized it was brittney’s goddaughter taylor. as i drove behind her the dream shifted into me walking behind her as she walked up the stairs at brittney/kim’s house. i started to wonder why i came over unannounced, because she didn’t seem very happy to see me. and i stood there thinking, oh my god, why am i here? doc was with me now, and he stayed in the house while i went back outside to the car. i’d parked it on the street near several other vehicles. but now it was gone. i frantically ran up and down the street thinking i’d parked it somewhere that i just didn’t remember, but it was definitely gone. i ran back inside and got doc, and told him what had happened. as he came back outside with me, a police car drove slowly up the street with its lights flashing. and i thought “now that’s odd, i didn’t even call them yet, how did they know to come out here?” but it drove on by up to the other end of the street. we followed it and near the end of the street there was […]

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