Eulogy for a car:
This morning, we said good-bye to a beloved friend, Rob's car, Goldie. (The name is a long story.) She was ten years old, had over 150,000 miles on her and kept needing some rather large repairs. (A little over $1,500 in the last two months) Also, being a tiny car, she just wasn't big enough for us, really. We got a great deal on tricked out (leather, sun roof, etc.) 2004 Saturn Ion with only 17,000 miles two weeks ago, so we decided to donate the old girl to the Junvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
The odometer - 151,285.3 miles, all but 16 of those are ours.
So, your thinking, it's a car. Nope, we spent 10 years going places in that little car and she was such a good car. Great gas milage. She was a major part of Rob and my's courtship, making countless trips between Nacogdoches and Houston. Kathryn grew up in that car - going from sticking peanut butter crackers to the side wall to really barely fitting in the back seat. Some how that tiny car managed to carry two adults, two teenagers and one of those teenagers worldly posessions to Dallas. It made some memorable trips to New Orleans and Austin. And she was a cutey. Maybe just because she was ours, we humanized her, but I think her front end even looked a little like a face.
Good-bye, old girl. We'll miss you. Pardon us, if we picture you running around in a field playing with other little Geos.
3 comments:
Impressive on the mileage. I'm glad to hear you donated it to a very good cause.
Congratulations on the new car. You did do some damage on the GEO. That was super cool of you to donate the car. I can not believe you found a 2+ year-old car with 17,000 miles on it that is impressive. Did you kind it at Saturn of Katy Freeway????
Of course we did. We took my Saturn in for service and we were just looking at the new ones to maybe buy in a few months, next thing you know the sales guy is showing us one heck of a deal
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