Dear Anonymous,
you are not alone. My husband had a 1985 Chevy Cavalier(looked just like the car above only blue) that he simply could not part with. The trusty car had 200,000 miles on it, and it ran great, but the body! It was rusty everywhere! The driver's door would no longer close tightly, and sometimes when I was driving and would turn the corner, the door would fly open! Thank God for seat belts or I would have fallen out! To solve that little inconvenience, my husband installed a hook and eye inside the door so it would stay shut while driving. The passenger door would not open or shut. If we wanted to prevent people from stealing the car, we had to lock the hook and eye and crawl out the hatch in back! When the people at my new job saw me doing that in a dress and laughed at me, my pride had enough. The car had to go!
One day, after my husband sold the car, he came home from work terribly excited! He found his car parked about a mile away at a local apartment building! The new owner lived nearby! It was like old times! Every day he would slowly drive past that apartment building parking lot, just so that he could look at the car and reminisce about the good old days!
Please do not feel that your sorrow over the loss of your Honda is unusual or uncalled for. Please know that you have company in your misery. I hope that some day you will find your Honda parked in a nearby lot and you can visit it every day!
Your friends, Anne and Paul
You're kidding, right? It didn't really have a hook and eye lock...did it?! Please don't ask me to keep a straight face after reading this. My sister's husband still gives her a hard time about the old Trans-Am he had to give up when they had their first child 16 years ago ;)
ReplyDeleteLove the post! It cracked me up! After hearing about the hook and eye I am wondering if our 93 Honda was old and worn out enough to sell. All of its doors stayed shut. Maybe we could have got a few more years out of it.
ReplyDeleteCute story! Praying you are feeling a bit brighter;-)
ReplyDeleteTOO Funny! Thanks for the laugh!
ReplyDeleteCool story! I don't move on to newer things easily, either. If I can rope the door shut, that is good enough.
ReplyDeleteAnne, I love your brain, intellectual and spiritual. But if you ask us to start praying for the well-being of a car ....
ReplyDeleteAnd I thought I had it bad. I had to use a paper-clip-based-contraption to keep the glove compartment closed on my old Honda! This one takes the cake!
ReplyDeleteOld cars can and do bring back fond memories. It's sad to see them go to someone who might not take as much care for them as we did.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
I think the only car I'd be attached to is a Mini Cooper . . . and before I can get one of those we are going to drive the Honda van into the dirt . . . by which time the kids will be on their own and I won't have to decide which kid to strap to the rooftop. ;)
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