How I Killed My Car

Reading about Jen's car trouble reminded me of my own car trouble incident. In August 2002 I bought myself a brand new midnight metallic blue sunfire ( I really loved this color and I'm always cleaning it during the summer to show it off). When I woke up that day I hadn't planned on buying a car but I was in the market for one and I got a fairly good deal on it. Its was basically the cheapest new car a person could buy. One item in particular making it cheaper was the fact that it was a standard not an automatic. At the time I had no idea how to drive stick but my two older brothers both bought new cars without being able to drive stick and they picked it up in a few days. A week to the day after buying it I was out with my mom learning to drive stick and all of a sudden my car starts losing power and smoke starts coming up from the hood of my car. After only a week I had fucked the transmission on the car. Technically it wasn't my fault, there was a faulty part, but my family doesn't let me live down the fact that I had destroyed a new car in only a week. This of course put a kink in my learning. I think it took me around a month to finally master driving stick. Today I always feel like a race car driver having to shift, which is fun. This coming august I will have finally paid it off so I look forward to no more car payments.

[ I find it ironic that I'm wearing my James Dean shirt in the only pictures I have of me and my car. He died when he was 24 in a car accident. I will be 24 this year, hopefully this doesn't mean anything.]

Another car incident happened when I hit a deer ( actually the deer landed on me) on my way to Edmonton. I had left for Edmonton at 3am and avoided 6 deer in complete darkness. Then around 6:30am in day light outside Valmount a dam deer comes prancing out of the forrest. I slam on my brakes and caught the deer on the hood of my car coming down from a hop. I checked the damage and luckily it was only damage to the hood. I go to find the deer and its in the ditch slowing breathing. I figure that with the damage to the hood that the deer was probably only stunned. I felt bad for the deer and did think about going to put it out of its misery but I thought if I got to close the damn thing would endup kicking me. The damage cost me $300, which pissed me off. I was even thinking of strapping the thing to the car and selling it to recoup some costs. I had my camera with me so I took the pic for insurance reasons, and also collected the bits of the hair stuck in my grill as proof.

The most recent incident was some asshole hitting me in a parking lot and cracking my front bumper. The kicker is the fucker didn't leave a note. To fix it, it will cost me $500, but I figure since it's not all that noticeable it could wait.