30 Days of Thankfulness- Car

I am thankful for my car. I don't know a lot about cars, so I can't tell you much about mine, other than it's blue and has a spoiler and because of the spoiler, I pay more in insurance (it's an Escort ZX2, which is allegedly a sports car, but when you think "sports car", who thinks of a Ford Escort?)

I went to the driver's license place on my 16th birthday, skipping part of school so I could get my learner's permit. When I got there, I failed the very first part of the test- the vision test! They said "look in this thing and tell us whether the dot is inside the green box, or outside it." I said "what dot?" Fail. So we actually left the driver's license place and went to the eye doctor that day, and I got a new prescription, and contacts. That was kind of exciting. However, I did not go back and try again until I was a senior year in high school, I believe. I got my license after I graduated. My family members drove me to and picked me up from college for the first several weeks while we looked for a car. In the end, my aunt bought a new car, my cousin got her old car, and I bought my cousin's old car. Or my grandfather bought it for me and I paid him back over the next few years. My car had fewer than 50,000 miles on it when I got it at the end of 2006, and six years later, it has fewer than 75,000 miles on it. It runs really well, considering how old it is. I've had very few problems with it. I love the fact that I don't have a car payment. When my car misbehaves, the problems are generally less severe (or less terrifying) than vehicles my friends have had over the years, and I'm very fortunate for that. I'm also so lucky to have an uncle who was a mechanic for practically his whole life, and who will come over and look at my car when I am being weird and panicky about it ("The windows aren't unfogging fast enough and I'm afraid to drive it.") I'm thankful that I have my own vehicle, which comes in handy. Sharing a car with Brandon would be tough because I couldn't go anywhere while he's at work. And taking the bus would be hard because our bus system is kind of terrible if you don't live downtown.

So there's today's improvised entry. I'm thankful for my car, the things that it allows me to do, and the people who help me take care of it.