My shiny new carI had to have something bigger, more roomy. With the baby coming soon I'll need the space to get the stroller in the back. So I went and bough a station wagon. It came to a Citroën C5 SX 1,8 2001 that me and the mrs. both liked a lot. I dropped going to a supposedly interesting talk at the NNUG about the Compact Framework in favor of going up to test drive it. It handles really nice on the road and it's got all these cool dingbats that my old car don't have. Like a rain sensor for the wipers so I don't have to move my arm to turn them on, a radio/cd player control by the steering wheel so I don't have to move my arm to skip past that horribly annoying Macarena song that somehow came to appear on my home made CD, a two-zone automatic air conditioning that keeps the temperature constant so I don't have to move my arm to adjust the heat, and a sensor that beeps to tell me if I'm getting too close to something when backing up so I don't have to move my arm to... well... it's cool anyway.
The old carBut as happy as I am about this new wonder, I can't help feeling a bit sorry for the old one. It's really been there for me throughout the years. It was there when I went to study in another town, faithfully bringing me back and forth, and it's been there for me when I met my wife, giving us many romantic evenings in the car as we had no better place to be. And now that it's getting a bit older and feeling a little dented in the side and having a little cough in the dynamo, instead of caring for it and fixing it, I turn it in for a slump of cash to finance this new hotness.
But on the other hand it's probably looking forward to the change - going to the dealer and get fixed up real nice and then be sold to a cool youngster that can style it up and drive it real fast up and down Fiskebrygga. It must be getting bored with me now that I have gotten married and drive little more than back and forth to work. And it would just be feeling inadequate and out of place being used as a family car, struggling to fit a stroller in the rear. Yep, it's the best for all of us.