This is the last time I saw you

[maypirate]

Friday night, when I was going to pick up Megan at the airport, I took a turn too fast, slid on some ice, went up on a curb, knocked over a pedestrian crossing sign, and busted the front left wheel of my car.

I thought I'd gotten a flat, or bent the rim, which wasn't too bad -the sign hadn't left any damage to the front of the car- but it turns out that I'd bent the frame, and my parents decided that was the end.

I love that car. We've had it for more than half my life, and I learned to drive in it. That car is my automotive life. I believed we had a symbiotic connection - I could do anything in that car, and even to the end, it protected me.

It deserved better.

It deserved a cooler accident, or a better story or something. It didn't deserve a stupid curb and an airport road.

And granted it's just a car, but it's a car I fucking loved and grew up in, and I've always said that when they tried to take it away, they'd have to pry me off the roof.

My dad and I went and got all our stuff out of it, and when I locked it for the very last time I burst into tears, and all I could say was "I love you," and "I'm sorry."

Rest in Peace

1989 Honda Accord, "The Vanilla Love Mobile"

Comments

[monkeybobert.livejournal.com]

That makes me sad, too! There's something about that car that is very loveable and very you.

I'm glad you were able to say goodbye to it. You gave it a good life. Better a pedestrian sign than an accident that could have been dangerous to both you and the car. I'm sure it's happy.

Rest in Peace, Amber-mobile, Ambus, and whatever else I may have called you over the years.

[thisisnotmyname.livejournal.com]

AGGHH *CLINGS*


omfg i totally know how you feel. i about died when i got rid of my first car... 91 mitsubishi mirage. absolute piece of shit. i drove that thing over curbs, through hedges... but then i got my ABSOLUTE LIFE of a car and you will too!

you will get a car that's even better!! it will love you and you will love it and all will be well <3

[reikah.livejournal.com]

Oh, Amber. Im glad I don't know how to drive? I already get irrationally attached to other things... like bicycles, kettles, a sled, a clothes dryer, a washing machine and a laundry basket. XD;

[silver-miko.livejournal.com]

Omg, just like Aja! I had a little accident with my car too last week involving a short cement wall attacking the passenger side of my car.

[maxxim-huzzah.livejournal.com]

It was your baby, and when you use something exclusively, it's part of you. I'm sure your tears weren't wasted ;_;. And may you find the car that you need in the future.

[asidian.livejournal.com]

*whimper* That's just awful.

I get painfully attached to inanimate objects, so I suspect I understand how you feel a bit -too- well. *brings flowers to the car*

[taskemus.livejournal.com]

*mourns car* ;_;