R.I.P. The Green Car
As Dad pointed out in an email earlier today, the green car departed us last weekend in sudden and somewhat dramatic fashion at a Citgo station, or rather on the residential property adjacent to it. At least, as Dad aptly put it, "the mechanic wasn't run over, and the house didn't explode".
Anyway, in honor of the dear departed '95 Sable, I offer the following brief reminiscence about each of our special relationships with the vehicle:
Jack
Multiple, baffling, ultimately terminal problems when starting the car
Nate
Late-night starter engine failures, summer 2000 and winter 2003
Pete
Fell asleep on afternoon commute while listening to modernist horn music on the CD player, crashed into another vehicle
Mike
Mostly just filled the car up with garbage every time he used it
...Where there are endings, there are beginnings, however: Last weekend I also received the title to my own car in the mail, having paid off my auto loan in full. So do any of you know a guy around here with a piss yellow deuce coupe, supposed to be hot stuff? I'm totally going to race him for pink slips.
Anyway, in honor of the dear departed '95 Sable, I offer the following brief reminiscence about each of our special relationships with the vehicle:
Jack
Multiple, baffling, ultimately terminal problems when starting the car
Nate
Late-night starter engine failures, summer 2000 and winter 2003
Pete
Fell asleep on afternoon commute while listening to modernist horn music on the CD player, crashed into another vehicle
Mike
Mostly just filled the car up with garbage every time he used it
...Where there are endings, there are beginnings, however: Last weekend I also received the title to my own car in the mail, having paid off my auto loan in full. So do any of you know a guy around here with a piss yellow deuce coupe, supposed to be hot stuff? I'm totally going to race him for pink slips.
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The final chain of events, in case anyone reading this doesn't know:
1. Mechanic, underneath car at Citgo station, jumps the starter motor.
2. Car turns out to be in reverse, not park as the shifter indicates.
3. Car rolls away in reverse, leaving mechanic unharmed but hitting an adjacent house, missing its gas meter by half a foot.
Pete's super-slow-motion merging accident aside, the Green Car always seemed too mellow to depart in such a nearly explosive fashion.
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