One car family

I mentioned here that we sold our 1992 Suzuki recently. It was a sad day for us. I brought Sid out to take one last photo with "our car":

Then we watched it get towed away:

It was like saying goodbye to an old friend. Gone forever. A 15 year old (like our son) paid us cash for that car and he's going to fix it and love it and take girls out in it. Our car will enjoy its life on the Olympic Peninsula, driving down country roads, hauling a trailer packed with off-road bikes. Yeah, our car will be just fine.

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So I need a new car. Or do I? I don't drive that much. Robert and I commute together and most of the time we manage to get everything else done with just one car. I have mentioned that I dislike driving our current car. I've had nightmares where I'm trying to drive it and I can't even see over the dashboard because I'm too short. The car is too big for me. I want small and tiny. Cute and pretty.

Like this:

Or this:

Or HELLO LOVER!

There's a catch though. I don't want to make car payments. Or I want tiny payments. Or a quick payoff. Perhaps I can convince Robert to sell the Xterra and buy me a slightly used tiny pretty.

Oh, there's another catch. Sid will be getting his license within the next year (we think; he'd better after all the money we're spending on his lessons*). He has expressed a desire not to drive ever even if he gets his license and to live in NYC and be an urban hipster but realistically, he needs access to a car. And that car needs to be affordable enough that we can put him on the insurance.

*speaking of driving lessons, remember Almost Live's "Ballard Driving Academy"? heh.

So for now, we're a one car family and if we become a two car family again I don't see cute and pretty anywhere in the picture.