MickintheHam
06-25-2013, 11:01 AM
I love my new Subaru, picked it up on Saturday. It has everything I wanted. It's a mean looking car.
But, I miss my old vehicle. I had it 17 years. It had 265,000 miles on it. It made more trips to the beach and to Lexington than I can count. It went to soccer games almost every Saturday for at least 9 of those years. It's the one my son took off-roading when he turned 16. He was washing it at midnight at the Bradley wash so I wouldn't know.
In cleaning out the vehicle to trade it in, I had to pore through a lot of old memories. Plastic wine glasses that were stored in one of the compartments from our trips to Chastain Park in the ATL, blue and white mardi gras beads from the big football win over alabama, and a letter from my buddy who died when he sent me a piece of the floor from Memorial Coliseum. That car collected a lot of stuff.
So, now the Montero is a part of history. It's really sad. And for all the joy associated with buying a new car, there is a big hole in my heart for that old bus. I'm supposed to be happy.
But, I miss my old vehicle. I had it 17 years. It had 265,000 miles on it. It made more trips to the beach and to Lexington than I can count. It went to soccer games almost every Saturday for at least 9 of those years. It's the one my son took off-roading when he turned 16. He was washing it at midnight at the Bradley wash so I wouldn't know.
In cleaning out the vehicle to trade it in, I had to pore through a lot of old memories. Plastic wine glasses that were stored in one of the compartments from our trips to Chastain Park in the ATL, blue and white mardi gras beads from the big football win over alabama, and a letter from my buddy who died when he sent me a piece of the floor from Memorial Coliseum. That car collected a lot of stuff.
So, now the Montero is a part of history. It's really sad. And for all the joy associated with buying a new car, there is a big hole in my heart for that old bus. I'm supposed to be happy.