On a more “life goes on” kind of
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On a more “life goes on” kind of note, since my Instagram posts aren’t coming over then the news that we got a new car didn’t come over. Dude had one of those Volkswagen TDIs with the totally falsified and illegal exhaust systems, and so when VW did the buyback thing he signed up. It took from October until yesterday for them to get the paperwork all done and cut him the check, but it was quite a generous settlement in the end– the car’s value before the revelation that it was all a lie, plus a couple of thousand dollars in restitution, so, it was nothing to really complain about.
We got a Mazda 3 hatchback, but he could only get it in blue. My car is a blue Subaru Crosstrek, so now we have two blue cars in the driveway. I haven’t looked in daylight yet to see if they clash.
Anyway. Here’s today’s trivia: the radios in mazdas don’t turn off. Seriously, google it. They don’t. You can only put them on mute. what the fuck mazda.
We want to go joyriding today but my imagination is coming up short on where we should drive to. The idea is that we need to drive somewhere in daylight so we can find all the damn buttons on the car.
For the record, I know since he followed me home from the dealership in it: it has LED headlights. We got separated at one point on the drive, and he came a different way, and fell in behind me again, and I instantly knew it was him not because he was making the same turns, but because in the five previous minutes he’d been behind me I’d already noticed the goddamn LED headlights.
On a more “life goes on” kind of note, since my Instagram posts aren’t coming over then the news that we got a new car didn’t come over. Dude had one of those Volkswagen TDIs with the totally falsified and illegal exhaust systems, and so when VW did the buyback thing he signed up. It took from October until yesterday for them to get the paperwork all done and cut him the check, but it was quite a generous settlement in the end– the car’s value before the revelation that it was all a lie, plus a couple of thousand dollars in restitution, so, it was nothing to really complain about.
We got a Mazda 3 hatchback, but he could only get it in blue. My car is a blue Subaru Crosstrek, so now we have two blue cars in the driveway. I haven’t looked in daylight yet to see if they clash.
Anyway. Here’s today’s trivia: the radios in mazdas don’t turn off. Seriously, google it. They don’t. You can only put them on mute. what the fuck mazda.
We want to go joyriding today but my imagination is coming up short on where we should drive to. The idea is that we need to drive somewhere in daylight so we can find all the damn buttons on the car.
For the record, I know since he followed me home from the dealership in it: it has LED headlights. We got separated at one point on the drive, and he came a different way, and fell in behind me again, and I instantly knew it was him not because he was making the same turns, but because in the five previous minutes he’d been behind me I’d already noticed the goddamn LED headlights.
