2025.08.19
Getting old for sure - not worth chasing down what's stopping the AC from working, smells a bit like gas, noisy as heck.
But you know, I kind of love it.
Like I drive Lynette's Subaru Forester which is half as old, bt also like, half as fun? Small cars are just fun and nimble. (Besides my usual excuse of being easy to park.)
The trend for big cars is so annoying. They aren't that much safer (the car industry really has done a smashup jobs making cars safer in smashups) but they are hella more dangerous to everyone around them - both the amount of mass you're pushing into things, and then the fact the sightlines kinda suck.
Some year I'll have to switch, and it's going to be hard to find even a newish used car of a similar size and vibe and level of reliability. But for now I'll enjoy running my nimble car into the ground...