1. I am surprisingly drawn to Toyota FJ Cruisers… NOT like me at all.
2. My parents bought me my first car, a 1999 little black Toyota Corolla, right after I graduated high school. It has been driven to Florida, Georgia, Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, and all over Tennessee.
3. One winter morning Rust ripped the door handle off our Corolla. In a flash of ingenuity, he glued it back on. It has since been ripped off two other times, but not by us… both have been mechanics who were working on the car for unrelated things, and both simply handed the door handle back to us with abashed expressions and mumbled apologies.
4. We bought our jeep right after we got married, as Rust was pining desperately for some type of “man vehicle.”
5. A month after we bought said jeep, I had already popped the front tire and bent the rim. That story will come later.
6. Though, to redeem myself at the expense of my husband: in one year Rust backed into our garbage can with the Corolla, and into the front of the Corolla with the Jeep.
7. In college, whilst in the midst of my crush on Rust, a state trooper caught my attention at an intersection and yelled to me through the window that I had a flat tire. He then proceeded to LEAVE ME while I parked (and fretted) in a Food Lion parking lot. It gave me the perfect excuse to call Rust, however, who came on his lunch break, changed my tire, and put a goofy grin on my face–he came to my rescue.
8 . Rust wants an ancient rough-and-tumble jeep to “tool around in,” as he puts it.
9. In high school I drove a red Ford station wagon. It wasn’t as bad as I let on.
10. Nevertheless, we are thankful for our cars!!
aw… I thought this was going to be a post about you selling your Corolla! I loved that lil car in college, and lo and behold we’ll need a more ‘family-friendly’ car as opposed to Ryan’s 2-passenger truck and our 2 door SUV.
You 2 sound accident-prone when it comes to cars… maybe Rust does need a ‘rough and tumble’ jeep!