gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (Don't Drive Angry!)
Douglas Berry ([personal profile] gridlore) wrote2008-04-19 10:44 am
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We could open a dealership.

We were just talking about our cars, and realized we've had a few in our 18 years together.

We started with my 1973 Datsun miniwagon (The Yellow Peril) and Kirsten's Mitsubishi pick-up (Siouxsi). After those went away, we had a little red car for so short a time we can't even remember who made it. Then we bought a new Geo Metro in 1992 (The Roller Skate.) Kept that for a few years, leased a new Geo just in time for me to get cancer. Kiri calls that one the Stolen Car. After that was returned, [livejournal.com profile] capplor graciously let us use an old pick up which died in San Francisco. Kirsten's stepfather loaned us a 1967 Chrysler (The Boat, the Battleship Potemkin, or the Oh, Chrystler). Sometime after that we bought a Chevy from a friend, and promptly wrecked on the drive back up.

Once fixed, the Blue Car served us well for a few years before dying and being replaced by a Ford Taurus wagon (Sammi the Bull.) Sammi was a great car, making the trek to Burning Man. But she was showing her age. Kirsten really wanted a PT Cruiser, so we traded Sammi in at an Enterprise Car Sales for Barnum.

Which brings up to today, where we are a two-car household for the first time since about 1993. Ranger Darby is parked outside, and I'm still having trouble accepting the reality of the situation.

[identity profile] jarlsberg71.livejournal.com 2008-04-19 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I remember the boat.

And the mag-lite being shined in my face...

Good times..

[identity profile] sylvan.livejournal.com 2008-04-19 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, sweet Siouxsie! The origin of the pantheon. The chariot of Erotic Nightmares. A girl who took me to and from a great deal of fun!