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September 14, 2005

Look What I Bought

My 1996 Honda Accord EX, lovingly referred to as Old Crappy, finally died on me by way of a choking, sputtering transmission. They say, with proper care, that Hondas will last forever. Well, mine made it 130k miles, and got me through seven years, two states and seven moves. While that's not really Forever in Hondaland, it was long enough.

On Saturday, J0shua and I spent the day zipping around in my rental looking for a replacement Accord EX to no avail. Most of the dealers said they could put me in a base model brand new '05 Accord for less than a used EX, so hot are Accords right now in our high gas price world. But I'm a snob, and a girl, and have to have leather. (When you're making 60 payments, it's important to love and be excited about what you're making those payments on. Though I've never had a brand spankin' new car, and it would've been thrilling to drive a car off the lot with 0 miles, I would've felt resentful that Old Crappy's untimely demise put me in a car that I wasn't excited about, tied to it with a 5-year loan.)

We popped into an Acura dealer for kicks (really), and many hours, converstaions and negotiations later I drove home in the most AMAZING car ever. On my 16th birthday in June 1992 I became the proud driver of an '86 Acura Integra and I've been looking for that car ever since, in a way, and here it is - 16 years newer and 16,000 times cleaner.

J0shua said he's a little scared of me in a car with so much power (though he did say that I'm a good "girl driver," in front of a salesperson no less), but it's thrilling to know that I can make a left-hand turn on Cobb Parkway and not worry about my car stalling on its way across 3 lanes.

Halfway through the 00s, I finally have a car made in the same decade we're living in. How thrilling. All that's left to find out now is where this car will take me, and who I'll be when we get there.

Posted by hannah at 10:41 AM