January 14th, 2009
Pickin’ and Grinnin’
That’s right, readers. Thanks to Craigslist, and Kevin’s shamanistic abilities to find great deals on Craigslist, I am now the proud owner of a pick-up truck.
A blue-ish green ’97 Chevy S-10, specifically, with 115,000 miles on it. (My dad has always maintained that Witchgers are incapable of buying cars with under 100,000 miles on them. It seems this is true.)
This one’s a 2-wheel-drive, which is funny because I always saw myself getting a 4-wheel-drive (i.e. a “real”) truck because, well, if you can’t tow a birthing cow out of a mudhole on the side of a mountain…why have a truck? Recently I’ve realized though, that that I am not in proximity to any birthing cows, mudholes, or mountainsides. My family has a 2-wheel-drive truck that I’ve borrowed many times, and it turns out that, for loading up a card table at a friend’s house two blocks away to deliver to a baby shower, running on 2-wheels is just fine…. Also, I enjoy getting optimal gas mileage.
It’s an automatic too. A travesty I was willing to overlook for the low asking price and because “non-standard” Steph will now be able to drive our second vehicle.
Those were my only hang-ups. Despite them, I am elated about owning a truck. Kate stated a fact to me over gchat today that I already knew full-well, yet still made me stop and think about how lucky I was:
“now you can pick up shit off hte street”
If someone will just make me a needlepoint seat cover, displaying this bit of conventional wisdom (verbatim, please), I promise you that Teal-y and I will be present at every one of your moving days for the duration.
I’m now taking his keys off my ring, so I suppose I should mention the Chevy “The Only Car I’ve Ever Owned” Nova. I don’t know what the Nova’s fate will be. On one hand, it seems ridiculous for two people to own three cars and this one is old and needs some advanced engine work. On the other, it still runs, I doubt if I’d get enough for it to make it worth the trouble of selling, and, for 10 years now, it’s been “The Only Car I’ve Ever Owned.”
He’s pushed to the back of the driveway now and I can cleary see him eyeing me through the study window as we speak.
Let us discuss this another time.
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