An irrational and overly emotional part of me hoped you would still be in the driveway when I came home today. My anthropomorphic tendencies have lead me to believe that your loyal, protective, and caring qualities would prevent you from driving off into the sunset with another woman at your controls. But alas, you have done just that; and today marks the beginning of your new life with another teenage crush.
Skull, I know you are going to have a wonderful new life with your new owner. You are going to get to do all the old things we used to do like commute to and from school, cruise on the freeway with the windows down and the music blaring, play tricks on unsuspecting McDonald’s employees at late-night drive thru’s, and procure the best parking spots downtown. When I saw how excited she was to have you for her own, I wished I had the means to gift you to her instead of selling you off like an unwanted and abused toy. I am ecstatic for you and for her, which is why I am so bothered by the fact that a mini depression has washed over my normally upbeat disposition.
I can not help to be disappointed and even embarrassed that I cared so much about an inanimate object, but I have just given up the one material possession that was truly mine. I guess today is the first time it has really sunk in to me exactly what kinds of sacrifices and changes I need to be able to accept.
Well, just think the Skull will be smiling, riding on the roads again in sunny CA. I’m sure her new owner will take very good care of her. One of your “children” has gone, you still have 3 others, Craigs list perhaps too? haha.
Anyone who has ever owned a Volkswagen can agree on the same thing….
“When I owned that car it lended a hand in causing some of the BEST and WORST events of my entire life thus far. And I mean that with all of my heart.”
In my case: A semi-stupid 19 year old me took out a 3000.00 loan for a 1989 vw cabriolet. The mileage was sky high…. the seals on the top leaked so much there were puddles on the floor after it rained. There were corncobs and wrenches and other forgetful-mechanics tools hiding under the hood when I bought it. It was WAY overpriced for what it was…. but I bought it anyway because I was IN LOVE at first sight.
My sister and I taught ourselves to drive stick shift in it. Somehow we never managed to blow out the clutch. It was driven from Philadelphia to Harrisburg and back every other weekend for a year and a half. It took me to work at 3 different jobs. It was driven on road trips to Baltimore MD, Penn State College, Westchester, and other places (including to see my first real boyfriend for the first time in Boyertown PA).
It eventually blew it’s head-gasket. My dad paid to rent a car-tow attachment for his SUV to tow it back to Harrisburg. He bought some type of fix-it book and fixed the gasket himself so I could drive it when I was home.
It sat in my parents driveway for a year where it was home to hornets nests and squirrels. It had it’s liscense plate surrendered because of insurance droppage. I drove it liscense-less around Dillsburg daringly with friends on summer nights and to and from the pool when I was home from college.
My uncle finally towed it to his house this past year… fixed it up and sold it to some other unknowing teenager.
I was glad to hear it sold, all it did was make me sad when I saw it in the driveway. I loved and hated that car :}
The one and only car I ever owned (a yellow Dodge Omni) ended it’s “life” on a street somewhere in Philadelphia. I never knew this until a summons of some sort arrived at my home and the Philadelphia police ordered me to remove my car since it was abandoned. Now this summons appeared years after I “traded” it in on another car. Apparently I was still the owner of the Omni. When I read the contents of the summons, my brain formed this image of a broken down, doorless, rusting hulk that was probably the home of a crack head-sadly, that is how my car lived out it’s last years. It was an undignified ending to a life begun with such promise.
Word to the wise…make sure the title gets transferred!