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They shame you with our beliefs? Baha'is also believe we should not judge, just like Christ said. It's hard to be detached.
I remember the 2015 accident, and it traumatized you also. Last January? I don't remember that one.
My Sara would never do that. She cares very much much about appearances. I wouldn't care about a dent in our car. That makes us the odd couple.
Possibility of a miracle, perhaps?
After the part where you say it is your husbands fault this is sort of like my situation with my wife, she handles stuff like that. She gets angry or very irritated with me, but it doesn't last.It was his fault and I am still pretty angry at him and he knows it
I didn't think of that. It compounds on top of all of the rest. The rest of your life has been pretty miserable. That makes what he did seem worse than otherwise. The problem with cats dying, problems with rental houses.He never does anything around here, but that is another story and another problem that has been going on since we got married 37 years ago. My life was already bad enough before this happened.
We want to keep our cars and run them into the ground. This is for monetary reasons, not sentiment. Unfortunately, up to now at about 100,000 miles our previous cars have broken down. The present one is just beyond 100,000 and going strong. We've had this sone since about 2006. Today we drive very little. It may last us the rest of out life, which isn't very long now perhaps. If it doesn't we will not buy another car. It would not be worth the payments for how much we drive, and perhaps we couldn't afford the payments then.
Wow, that's not very many. Do you keep with the same company?
Yeah, and it is hard to know what it is like to have to handle all these issues unless you are the one who does it....
That is an astute observation. It seems like once things are a little stable it never lasts long, but I am grateful that finally, both rental houses are stable, and for the first time in 20 years,all the cats are healthy. That is more important than the car... Still, that car is a part of me and I have it longer than any cats.I didn't think of that. It compounds on top of all of the rest. The rest of your life has been pretty miserable. That makes what he did seem worse than otherwise. The problem with cats dying, problems with rental houses.
And I am still upset about the CRV getting rear-ended in January. I don't like not look at the dent so I never look...
Our latest is a Toyota Corolla. Before that it was a Chevrolet. It's engine blew. That was not our fault. Before that, I think it was our fault that we didn't have our transmissions checked as we should have. Officially, it was my wife who didn't have our transmissions checked, but then I left it all up to her to handle all of that so it was also my fault.
We keep our cars still they no longer run or they are totaled in an accident. Hondas will go for 300,000 easy. If I get the Honda Prelude that has 163,000 it will last till we die, since we never go anywhere. However, it is such a cool car I might want to drive it somewhere... Lewis can stay home and take care of the cats, he does not want to go anywhere... He had his 20 years driving the Prelude.
Before we started getting Hondas the only car that ever lasted long was the Dodge Challenger. Our other cars had been VW buses and VW Rabbits and a Subaru GL10 and they all over heated and were toast. I will never buy a VW again. One the Challenger overheated on the freeway going 70 MPH, but the engine did not get damaged because some nice person stopped and gave us antifreeze and we limped all the way back home.
I can't really say I've heard many good things about Chevy. I just haven't. But I've not heard many bad things about them. Toyota I'm all but loyal to, because their cars keep going. My 2012 Scion Xd has 260,000 miles on it and while there has been a lot with heavy usage repairs and maintenance it still runs great and with the generous care I've given it I get better gas mileage in the city than it's advertised new condition highway MPG.
Especially with a good car that treats you well, and you've built up a lot of memories with it. That's probably the hardest part of getting rid of a car for me, because of all the places I go with them, all the people in them, all the conversations had inside, all the activities done inside, it eventually becomes hard to part with one.
Not a chance.Maybe Lewis needs a good hug and for you to offer its all good cobber.
Not a chance.
We always buy new cars except early in our marriage we bought a car from a rental car dealership, because we heard that such cars were well-maintained by rental car agencies. I don't remember what kind of car that was or how long it lasted. It was so long ago my memory is dim. My memory is not very good these days, anyway, and when I say that I am not jesting.
Yes, the stock market has been good. Indirectly we are investing because our trust manager, or whatever he is called (There's my dim memory again). I have no idea what we are earning from this investment. But I'll say one thing here. You are much richer than me. You must have large investments to get 60,000 in capital gains, plus you own three houses and collect a lot of rent on two of them. Of course we both know that money doesn't mean happiness. I am okay as with what I have even though for the moment we owe about $3,000 on our credit card. Our trust manager in my opinion for now doesn't give enough a month from the trust. It is about $1,000 a month. However, starting in August we won't have to pay for our cemetery lots and funerals which is $500 a month. That's for Sara, Michael, and me. In the spring of 2024 we will have our mortgage paid off.