Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Goodbye to the Zipmobile

It's (almost) official.

I'm cutting the cord.

I'm selling Precocious Daughter's car.

Cute li'l guy.

She moved to the Big Apple two and a half years ago - sans car, of course. No one drives in New York outside of a Seinfeld episode. But all that time I've kept her little zipmobile so that she had a vehicle to use when she came home to visit. And, to a lesser extent, just in the case the Big Apple chewed her up and spit her out and she wanted/needed to come home. 

Not that I would ever tell her that. Over the past 25 years I've done my best to shield her from her mother's worst neuroses. With mixed results, but hey, I tried.

If you know, you know.


But finally I'm convinced that she is home, and home is not here in Texas. And I'm tired of paying for insurance, registration, maintenance, tires, etc. on a vehicle that gets driven once a week, and then only because I don't want it to sit in the garage and calcify. 

So I'm selling it. And it's actually working out well, because I have a co-worker who is looking for an inexpensive, reliable used car for his daughter. I'm giving him a good price, because I'm not looking to profit. In the past I've been the beneficiary of used cars from good, kind people who genuinely wanted to help me when I needed it. I'm happy to pay that forward. 

When the sale goes through, I'll have a little money in my pocket, and PDaughter will have a little money in her pocket, and I'll only have one car to worry about again. 

I'll be a one-car family, and a family of one.

Other than Tacocat, of course. 

Which gives me the opportunity to end with this gif:







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