271,901 miles

since february, i've been tooling around in the hatchback Honda Fit that i'd wanted for awhile. my gracious car, the Hornet and i had driven over 240,000 miles (about the distance from here to the surface of the moon) together, but there were some problems that i couldn't justify fixing, seeing as it would never be a hatchback. i was planning to sell it, but just couldn't get around to it.

finally, i sucked it up and placed an ad last week. it's with a new family now, in south Baltimore. the new owner is a body guy and plans to strip the paint and get it back to looking like new. it passed the state inspection and soon it'll no longer have it's (shoddily done) awesome paint job, but that's okay. i'm hoping that the body'll last another 270K.

i'll miss that car. before i sold it, i drove it around the neighborhood for some last minute errands. i had been starting it up every once in a while, but not driving it, but once i was back behind the wheel, it was completely familiar. the gearshift was like a glove. i did alot of talking to myself in that car over the years. it's been all around the country. it took me to and from alot of places and was very dependable. strange how i could get so attached to metal and machinery like that, but i got the thing when i was 20. i was a completely different person then. i look at pictures of myself from that time and i barely recognize myself. it was a different life.

i'll miss it. but i'm glad that it's going to keep going rather than sit in a big yard somewhere, rusting and lonely. we should all be so lucky to get a second chance, no?