ティージェーグレェ on Nostr: Still at work for a little bit longer but during a lull where I can look at my pocket ...
Still at work for a little bit longer but during a lull where I can look at my pocket device.
I had been thinking about planning a test drive later in the day, but the dealership is a 3 hour 33 minute drive from here, with tolls and closes at 18:00.
If worked ends precisely at 13:30 (unlikely but that is what I will invoice for anyway because of reasons) and I run into zero issues on the drive that leaves me with maybe an hour for the test drive before turning around and driving back? ;(
Oh yeah, not time for lunch and that town is decidedly not vegan friendly too.
So, I’m thinking of driving there tomorrow for the test drive instead and then scrambling back to the Bay Area for my evening class.
Alternatively, I could take a leisurely afternoon and drive there tonight and sleep in my car, but it’s snowing weather and I don’t have snow tires which is already kinda giving me the heebyjeebies and sure I could stay in a hotel but that is just another expense I don’t need in my life.
I think I’ll take it slowly and get an earlyish start tomorrow and just hope no one swoops in to buy that car.
Which is pretty unlikely?
It’s used after all and not very unique, but it is relatively low mileage and seems to be in pretty good condition?
In fact, doing some calculations, I realize I drive approximately 4x more per annum than the previous owner of that vehicle!
sigh I sincerely don’t understand why cars are popular.
I understand them even less for people who barely drive them.
But then there’s people like Doug Demuro who bought a used Lamborghini Countach with fewer miles on it than the car I’m looking at and paid something like ＄50,000 on its first service which is > 2x the asking price of the used car I am looking at and he probably drives less than I do but owns like 5 cars.
Which is a long winded way of saying: I think car nuts are beyond insane!
Meanwhile if I lived in a truly civilized country like Japan?
I doubt I would ever spend as much per year on train travel, even using the Shinkansen almost exclusively, as I flushed down the toilet on my current vehicle.
I had been thinking about planning a test drive later in the day, but the dealership is a 3 hour 33 minute drive from here, with tolls and closes at 18:00.
If worked ends precisely at 13:30 (unlikely but that is what I will invoice for anyway because of reasons) and I run into zero issues on the drive that leaves me with maybe an hour for the test drive before turning around and driving back? ;(
Oh yeah, not time for lunch and that town is decidedly not vegan friendly too.
So, I’m thinking of driving there tomorrow for the test drive instead and then scrambling back to the Bay Area for my evening class.
Alternatively, I could take a leisurely afternoon and drive there tonight and sleep in my car, but it’s snowing weather and I don’t have snow tires which is already kinda giving me the heebyjeebies and sure I could stay in a hotel but that is just another expense I don’t need in my life.
I think I’ll take it slowly and get an earlyish start tomorrow and just hope no one swoops in to buy that car.
Which is pretty unlikely?
It’s used after all and not very unique, but it is relatively low mileage and seems to be in pretty good condition?
In fact, doing some calculations, I realize I drive approximately 4x more per annum than the previous owner of that vehicle!
sigh I sincerely don’t understand why cars are popular.
I understand them even less for people who barely drive them.
But then there’s people like Doug Demuro who bought a used Lamborghini Countach with fewer miles on it than the car I’m looking at and paid something like ＄50,000 on its first service which is > 2x the asking price of the used car I am looking at and he probably drives less than I do but owns like 5 cars.
Which is a long winded way of saying: I think car nuts are beyond insane!
Meanwhile if I lived in a truly civilized country like Japan?
I doubt I would ever spend as much per year on train travel, even using the Shinkansen almost exclusively, as I flushed down the toilet on my current vehicle.