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[Undertoad]

Yah, I'm just messin with ya at this point

- however -

Every car I've bought and expected to drive to death, I just got totally tired of what was wrong with them. Another year with these stupid stuttering brakes and I will rip my hair out.

On the Cellar Car I knew there would be things wrong, but I would fix them, get them fixed, or just live with it. It was a surprise that I then felt ok about them. The things wrong are almost fun quirks, not the pain-in-the-ass problems that might be the death of the car in 6 months.

Last winter J shoveled the snow off the Cellar Car with a shovel, and she put a bunch of nice lines on it where she took off a layer of paint, as you will do if you shovel snow off your car with a shovel. And I was like, ha ha, wow, if I was making payments on this I would be hugely pissed. Instead, it's just a laugh. It's car character. It's an improvement. What a revelation.

[infinite monkey]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

Yah, I'm just messin with ya at this point

- however -

Every car I've bought and expected to drive to death, I just got totally tired of what was wrong with them. Another year with these stupid stuttering brakes and I will rip my hair out.

On the Cellar Car I knew there would be things wrong, but I would fix them, get them fixed, or just live with it. It was a surprise that I then felt ok about them. The things wrong are almost fun quirks, not the pain-in-the-ass problems that might be the death of the car in 6 months.

Last winter J shoveled the snow off the Cellar Car with a shovel, and she put a bunch of nice lines on it where she took off a layer of paint, as you will do if you shovel snow off your car with a shovel. And I was like, ha ha, wow, if I was making payments on this I would be hugely pissed. Instead, it's just a laugh. It's car character. It's an improvement. What a revelation.

My brother had a beater truck for messing around with (his main car is a work SUV), it was an old JEEP truck. Rusty, ugly...so ugly I loved it! Pieces falling off! If we got anywhere near it my brother would run over and act like he was buffing out where we had touched it. He'd say "sheesh, you can't have anything nice!"