waking jonas sanoj gnikaw

Posted
26 April 2007 @ 9pm

Tagged
bikes, driving, laziness, life, money, stress, work

to burn or not to burn

i’m testing out scribefire, because i’m always willing to try something that promises to make my activities more convenient. and while i’m on the subject of convenience, it really sucks when something that is normally convenient becomes very much not so:

activity: getting to work

made difficult by:

  • broken car
  • not enough money
  • boyfriend’s car is a manual transmission (shut up shut up SHUT UP)
  • boyfriend entered group health’s “bike to work month” challenge next month and therefore cannot drive me

solution?

be the huge princess that i am laughing manically as i borrow my parents extraneous jag while standing on the knuckles of drowning polar bears.

let me take a moment to bask in the fact that i can make my parents appear to be billionaires.

if i could travel back in time and tell the 12 year old version of my father who went to school and worked full time that i would someday get to tell people about his second car, maybe he would have felt a little better about working outside in the sun and the rain for the next 38 years of his life.

my parents asked us to recommend an all terrain vehicle that would allow them to make trips across the passes a lot easier. we said subaru.

then dad found a smashing deal on an all wheel drive passenger car: a used jaguar. as an all-terrain vehicle. and, sure enough, they use it to go to over the passes. it was actually cheap, it handles nicely, performs under pressure, but they still prefer their cadillac.

in my defense, i’m going to see how a trial run of biking to my office will go this weekend. if it’s feasible (despite my work clothes wrinkling terribly in a bag) i might try to go with this option. it would make me feel better. still, it’s very nice of my parents to bail me out.

but i’m still having a hard time picturing myself in the jag.

EDIT: no longer having trouble picturing myself in the jag.

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5 Comments

Posted by
jared
27 April 2007 @ 8am

to be fair i would drive you if that were our only option. it’s just nice that your folks offered to help out.


Posted by
tessa
27 April 2007 @ 11am

i know you would, but i also want you to be able to do the bike to work month.


Posted by
david
28 April 2007 @ 12pm

who knew jags were all-wheel-drive.

weird.

in other automotive news, jason wants to get a sports car because his dad bought his brother a used porsche boxster.

i love jason but sometimes he’s hard to live with :)


Posted by
tessa
28 April 2007 @ 2pm

oh sibling rivalry…

yeah it’s an all-wheel drive and it feels nice. i’m going to be kinda bummed going back to my old car when it’s repaired. :(


Posted by
jacoby
1 May 2007 @ 11am

My car is broken too. Well, that and I got my license revoked.


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