outback

this week while my car’s (still) in the shop i’m driving a subaru outback. gotta love hertz. when i actually asked for an outback to drive out to the playa for the fourth of july, they give me a pontiac rendezvous awd. and now when i just need a compact car to drive up and down the peninsula, now they give me the outback.

it’s fine as a car, but i don’t think i’d own one. it’s a little too pokey, but i’m clearly using it wrong. i’m trying to zoom around traffic and zip zip zip, but it’s not really meant for that. i need to find some mountain trail to drive around, or some wet rainy road, or a snowy highway on the way to the lodge. and instead here it’s sunny and warm and i’m driving around nothing in an outback. i feel compelled to go buy something big and haul it around just to make it worth it. i was thinking about buying things to redo our entire bedroom, but hmc said that it probably wouldn’t be a good idea to drill into the hardwood floors. so much for that.

i wonder how much a small elephant costs?

maybe i should have rented a mini for the week, which would have been a nice test to see how much i’d love one. it would ONLY COST $400 more. yikes. although in stripper terms, that’s only an hour, right?

i think what i really want is the mini hybrid: cute and ecologically conscious!

Posted at September 7, 2006 1:30 AM