Ever since the late 1980’s (yes, over two decades ago) my parents would buy a new car and say “This is the last car we’ll ever buy. We’re getting told and will be dead soon so this is it. No more cars.”<\/p>\n
Then every 2 to 3 years later (never longer than that) they tell me they want to come up to visit, and with them they arrive in a brand new car. And it’s always a brand new car because my Dad refuses to buy used cars (“You’re just inheriting somebody else’s problems.”)<\/p>\n
Basically, every two to three years I get the same speech about this being the last car. So this past weekend, for Mother’s Day, it should have come as no surprise that my parents arrived in yet another new car…but this time it’s only been 1.5 years!<\/p>\n
This time around, they’ve gone the environmental route and got a 2009 Prius. It’s actually pretty cool (I’ve been in one once before). And it’s so damn quiet! But since the thing doesn’t require a key and it is so quiet, my parents can never tell if they shut the car off.\u00a0 For example, they visited my uncle\u00a0on Sunday\u00a0and left the car running for the whole two hours they were there.<\/p>\n
But the best part was when my parents got home. They drove for 3 hours round trip, over 160 miles, plus they left the car running for two hours while parked….and after they got home from the\u00a0trip they still had a full tank of gas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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