11:36 p.m. - Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2006
now as the rain beats down, upon my weary eyes..
i think it's about time i talk of cars once again.
you know, given that i get like five or six different car magazines in any given month, and only one or two others, given the vast amounts of time and money i spend on my cars, i speak of them relatively infrequently.
first up, the lexus, yeah it's due for an oil change, but otherwise it's runnig pretty well. the door lock switch broke,one of the headlights in broken (but fixed temporataly with glue!) and the cd player is jammed, poeple seem doomed to ram their doors into the side of it, but hey, it's got 310,000 miles on it, it's doing pretty well.
but at the same time, i'm starting to think maybe a new car is in order for me.
i know, i'm broke.
there is now way i can afford a new car right now (i'm so broke that if i pay all of my bills now, it will take two months for me to pay them all off. thats pretty broke for me)
but still, a new car...
and the thing is i don't really know what i want.
i mean over the weekend i was helping my sister change the oil on her saturn, and i was amazed at how well engeeried her car was. amazingly well engeeried, yet i remeber the last time i drove it, and i though about how poorly exicuted the concept was. granted a lot of that was a lack of mantiance, but even so, i remeber riding around in chris's new one back in high school, thinking that vinyl seats would have been a serious up grade from the leather that came with it, and some seats from a old honda, say kepa's, would have been a huge improvement, not to mention the body, plastic might have been good for the first year or two, but it is seriously lacking in terms of long term strenght. not to mention the "cost-cutting" mesures they introduced in the 94 models. drum breaks, wtf? drum brakes are cheaper than discs? i don't even know how that is possible, much less why it wouldn't be worth the three bucks per car to have brakes that worked?
but none the less, i've been thinking about getting an early saturn wagon, maybe add a turbo give it a little more umph, but stipped down i kind of think one of those could be entertaining.
part of me says due it.
another part of me says due you really want to show up for your ten year high school reunion in a saturn? why not make it a lexus?
another part of me is saying what the fuck are you worried about you're high school reunion for? i only really remeber a few people, and i some how doubt they'ed be the sort for renions, i mean kepa talked about it back then, it would be nice to meet up with him, micah, scotty (aka thc-man) chris, but those are really the only people i remeber from high school, there were a couple of girls, jess (the girl who freaked me out back then cause she was to clingy, yes i did go out with her), sarah (the girl who was amazingly hot and pretty cool, but she when to prom with one guy and left with another, made me glad to have never had asked her out) and of course michelle (who looking at my yearbook i wonder what the hell that was all about? i mean she was ok, but nothing great, and she was kind of a bitch), colin, she was amazing, but being as she was the head cheerleader at the school, i couldn't really she myself asking her out, and no matter how amazingly cool you are in high school, if you are the head cheerleader, you don't ask boys out, and if the boys you like are anything like me, well that would explain why you never had a bf.... but most of the girls i really liked were in other grades, cory, one year below me, therasa, two years below me...
but all told, what's that like five people i really remeber? kepa, micah, jess, maybe mike (a differnt mike that the one i'm still friends with who lives in korea), colin, and james (a really wierd guy who i never really hung out with, but i was in various activietes from middle school on. it's sort of wierd we never hung out outside of school activties, we had loads in common...)
i mean i could care less what these people think of me, and yet i'll proably keep my lexus. it's probably for the best, i mean i've driven it what, about fourty thousand miles and had it break down on me once? and even then once i changed the belt, i drove it home, found the problem, and drove it to the shop to get fixed... where as a turbo saturn wouldn't probably make it to the end of the block, much less around it.... and the hondas i had, well let me just say they weren't up to hondas standards of reliablty....
np:the left banke, walk away renee
just walk away renee, you won't see me follow you back home
