The things you own end up owning you.
That’s not my car, or my photo. But my car is definitely having lots of problems. Today it failed emissions, and I can’t renew the registration until it passes. If I get pulled over, not only would I be unable to roll down my window to hand the cop my license and registration, but the registration is overdue. In addition, those chaps at Jiffy Lube always try to upsell me with hundreds of dollars-worth of multiple parts I don’t need. Even after deflecting all of the Jiffy Lube kid’s incessant “special-offers”, it was still $38 for an oil change, and $30 for an emissions test. These moments can make one very irritated with overzealous, adolescent grease monkeys at Jiffy Lube, when really, one just wants to get along with others.
My choice to be less-educated about cars is coming with a high price, feeding the car-maintenance corporate machine that preys on the naïveté of American consumers. But hey! It’s great for the economy, we know that much! “Sign me up for overtime, Boss! I gots a car to git fickst!”
My DNA misses the forest, wearing animal skins, and hunting with a club.
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move to SF. bring tom tom. form band with me.
**then you don’t need a car
Ha this just reminds me of my car kinda, I have replaced the water pump, hoses, thermostat, and the radiator, and need to replace the radiator again, service the transmission and air conditioning, replace front brakes and rotors, and a few other things I can not even think of at the moment lol this car is old and needs a lot of work done on it. Well, bye bye next pay check. haha I <3 my car though.