50,000 and counting
My baby just rolled over 50,000 miles. A lot of people doubted that she could make it, but she has proved all of you wrong.
I still remember when I first met her at a Ford dealership in Elmhurst, Illinois while looking for a car with a colleague who you know in the blog world as oneway. We found her all alone, desperately longing for companionship in the back of the lot. At first, I pulled away thinking it was too good to be true. But then I overcame my fear of commitment and realized that she was exactly what I wanted.
I remember the negotiations for her with the used car dealer. It was strange to me to be bidding on her, worrying about money for something so invaluable; I felt like I was treating her like a piece of property. Nonetheless, the right price was found and she entered into my life. Since then, she has been more than a car. She's been a traveling partner in my journeys across this great country, a listening ear when I'm talking to myself, a singing judge when I sing along to country music, and even a waitress to hold my food when I'm driving. Above all that, she gets 30 miles to the gallon on the interstate.
Many of you have had the honor to experience this amazing car. I would like to encourage you to comment with your favorite memories in the Kia Sephia.
posted by matt @ 11:03 PM
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3 Comments:
I've always felt like I was part of the Kia...afterall, it did have the gas cap of my old self-made cavalier convertible.
However I'd have to say my best memories are all those trips to the Tuscola outlet mall...you know because they had the best gym there to work out and spit and do other manly things.
Sephia,
Welcome to adulthood. Maybe someday you'll be as cool as me.
Sincerely,
Red Faithful (92,000 and counting)
I can't decided if my favorite moment was the amazing shopping trip to Tuscola last year or driving like all heck to from Paxton to Champaign the day of the Super Bowl.
I seriously consider your success at the helm of the Kia Sephia a modern miracle. For the record, I was against the purchase of the Kia, due to the company's dubious performance history. If you know bensheets, you know his dad raised him in a way that enable him to have enough credit to buy a plane if he wanted, much less a nicer ride. He also saved up some cash, and could of paid outright for a better whip (that's another word for car, for WI readers).
So despite these factors, bensheets chose. He chose frugality, delayed gratification, self-control, wisdom, foresight, prudence, faith, humility, wretchedness. Ok maybe not wretchedness, but he definitely chose a small side of ridicule.
While he owned this car, he was more than generous with it, lending it out to almost anyone who needed it. One day, bensheets forced me to take the Kia on a country drive when I was stressed out. I came back a better man.
I've mixed in some exaggeration in this comment to avoid embarrassing bensheets, the teflon don, who avoids praise like Portis dodged the Bears yesterday. But the truth is that it boggles my mind when I see that the Kia Sephia has not had any major mechanical failures up to this point. I see that as directly related to God's pleasure in bensheets' stewardship.
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