I bought my first car, a ford ka when I started my first internship back in 2001. At the time people referred to it as a hairdressers car, as was the stereotype, but it was all I could afford to insure and it was brand new out of the factory.
That car has five digits on the odometer and when I stopped driving it, it had 40K miles on the clock or actually 140K with the lack of digits.
It saw me through numerous relationships, jobs and finally meeting my wife, buying our family home and starting a life together.
When it went to the scrapyard but wife didn't have any nostalgia for it whatsoever, but to me it was a car full of memories. It's weird inanimate objects can do that to you, but one man's trash is another's treasure.
I think it's so funny that the Ford Ka only had 5 digits on the odometer! Were they only expecting it to last 99,999 miles? Glad you were able to surpass expectations!
I bought my first car, a ford ka when I started my first internship back in 2001. At the time people referred to it as a hairdressers car, as was the stereotype, but it was all I could afford to insure and it was brand new out of the factory.
That car has five digits on the odometer and when I stopped driving it, it had 40K miles on the clock or actually 140K with the lack of digits.
It saw me through numerous relationships, jobs and finally meeting my wife, buying our family home and starting a life together.
When it went to the scrapyard but wife didn't have any nostalgia for it whatsoever, but to me it was a car full of memories. It's weird inanimate objects can do that to you, but one man's trash is another's treasure.
I think it's so funny that the Ford Ka only had 5 digits on the odometer! Were they only expecting it to last 99,999 miles? Glad you were able to surpass expectations!
This is a great post. Thank you for sharing.