We spent most of the afternoon in the windowless interior lunchroom in distraction/diversion mode. None of the students worried, so I think we were very successful. Lots of teachers tap-dancing in North Texas today!
Several friends suggested that my 1996 Skylark would not get a trade-in offer, and that I would have to pay to have the car hauled away. Some said the only value was the cool EARTH bumper sticker. The good news is I had a replacement bumper sticker in reserve in hopes that I would one day have a new vehicle.
My two daughters-in-law have heard me rhapsodize about my newlywed 1980 brown Toyota Corolla, and suggested I would buy a new Corolla. Gotta love these smart women in my family now! But no, not a Corolla.
Most people guessed small, fuel-efficient vehicles. Danger Baby offered his usual Chevy Malibu suggestion. Friends with magical thinking guessed a pick-up truck or maybe a bright red Prius convertible! Nobody guessed a '61 Plymouth Sport Fury, but I still would love to own one!
My dad's longtime home health helper guessed I got another Buick Skylark. Sharla's is the best guess and wins one autographed license plate. Just have to figure out how a car can sign an autograph! Danger Baby was closest with his $401 guess on the trade-in offer. His prize license plate will be a classy item in his law office!
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/img.photobucket.com/albums/v196/collagemama/2012/LookManorust.jpg">s/v196/collagemama/2012/LookManorust.jpg">So what did I get? Enquiring minds want to know how I'll be driving my traveling worms around to their performances.
Yup. A Buick. A 2002 Century with only 30K miles! It's a cream puff. A little old lady only drove it to church and kept it in her garage.
I hope a reader will tell me the expression for verbally carrying on and on in glowing, golden, melodic terms to compliment someone or something. Geez! Is this the beginning of dementia? All I can think of is
raps his naughtic
rhaps hypnotic
hips rhapsodic
lapse hypsrhosdic
Please, please help. I'm so far off I can't even find a way to search for this frequently used expression.
© 2012 Nancy L. Ruder
6 comments:
Wax rhapsodic as much as you want, dear girl! You can DO that to a car!!
Oh, thank you, thank you Kathleen. I am writing it down to put in the drawer with the rest of my "brains".
Glad you are safely home in your new vehicle. My dream car is another 4-wheel drive Subaru wagon like the one I had in my single, camping-every-weekend 20's! (Mine was a red 84 GL.)
I'll keep my eyes open for your dream car if you'll do the same for me!
Today I took my car in for some new brakes, turns out I didn't need brakes but rather new (and more expensive) struts. Since the car wasn't ready on my time, they gave me a loaner until tomorrow...a brand new Nissan Rogue with 201 miles on it. Oh the smell! While roving in my Rogue I heard an NPR story about a 93 year old who just quit driving and she's had her much-loved "Comet" for 500,000 miles. My new hero/ine.
I heard that story, too! The story is at:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/04/04/150001449/after-567-000-miles-and-48-years-florida-woman-parks-her-chariot
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