Thursday, March 6, 2008

Cars are fun (aka "No more Brad Turner, I'm playing Michael Knight now")

Wow, what a godsend friends can be! After scouring Craigslist nearly incessantly for the past 2 weeks, looking at car after car, junker after junker, and scam after scam, I finally decided to send out an email to everyone we know here in Georgia, to see if any of them were selling or knew someone who was selling a car at a decent (sub-3000) price. Some good friends of ours, Brad and Lanie Beth, work with a guy who just happened to be selling his car. Better yet, his in-laws were buying him a new car, so he didn't need to make any money off his old car, so he was willing to give us a sweet deal on it! So after all our searching, driving, praying, frustrating (can I use that as a verb?), and despairing, I'm driving off in my own 97 Honda Accord, with only 125,000 miles on it! Woo-hoo!! No more driving my motorcycle at 50 miles an hour on a 32 degree morning! No more mooching a car off Bart, Seth, or Debbie to go pick up lunch!! No more helmet hair!

Perhaps the day will come that I will lament being able to drive a motorcycle to work everyday, but that is certainly not this day. Amen.

2 comments:

Maria said...

No more smelling like exhaust! Thats my favorite...

Derek Sweatman said...

You sold out, my friend. The worship guy is supposed to be on the bike; you're the rockstar of the staff. Let the suits drive the cars and minivans - you should stick with the whole Purple Rain vibe.

And what's the deal with the 32 degree weather??? Aren't you from Chicago? (You're officially a southern boy now)

I'm just joshin' (8th grade term). Glad you found a car, and, you can't go wrong with a Honda!

Peace,
Derek

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