Seven reasons old cars are good. from November 18th, 2009
My new old car broke down and this is a list of why I’m ok with driving a lemon.
- Coasting down the freeway after your car died is quite the rush.
- Got to meet a few awkward tow truck drivers.
- Tow truck drivers are great at driving. If I could run as many stop signs as they do I wouldn’t be late for work all the time.
- Met a sweet receptionist at the repair shop. She is very motherly but I wish she would have cookies ready for me when I get my car towed in. Had fun catching her try to sell me $22 sparkplug wires for $116. I ain’t no fool.
- Walking back home from Radi’s Auto Repair is about a mile and a half from my house. It’s nice to get some exercise and sun. Double the fun when I forget my house key in my broken car at the shop.
- Four-and-a-half miles is easy for me to walk, I am a hiker. I saw an unattended 5-year-old boy using a rope to tow a shopping cart down the sidewalk. Maybe he will be a tow truck driver and we will meet again in 15 years.
- Oh yeah I got out of work today. Finally got to rent Brüno.