When Your Car Becomes Your Friend

Today is Odometer Day - that's the thing that counts the kilometers or miles in your car. It tells you how much your faithful wheels have turned already.

I thought the best way to honour the number of kilometers my little Ibiza chewed up is to remember the good times. Since I took possession of my Little Mite ...


▪️ I have spent roughly 18.050 minutes in the car
▪️ I have sung myself through 4.507 of those
▪️ I have driven a rough 2.000 km in the dark
▪️ and ended up killing one rabbit.
▪️ However, two years later I had an emergency stop for another rabbit. I ended up saving its life.
▪️ Before delivery The Devil's Insect was immortalized in the front headlamp.
▪️ I took my driving test in this car and we passed.
▪️ I had one serious accident with a bus - who was at fault
▪️ We overtook four horses
▪️ and a smug bastard in a Porsche who thought he would get away faster.
▪️ We also raced seven trains

that was a fast one

▪️ My car was recalled twice 

▪️ I never had to open the bonnet - unless I wanted to ogle at the engine
▪️ Approximately 70 sneezes left my body while I was in the car

▪️ Meanwhile, I only broke wind 10 times 

▪️ Five apples were consumed in my car 

▪️ My car betrayed me only once when I hit my knee on the dashboard while getting out

▪️ Another time I somehow managed to sprain my finger while turning the wheel

▪️ I drove over 8 dark green traffic lights

▪️ We were never fined for anything.

▪️ We slipped on ice twice - both time without consequence 

▪️ I was kissed in my car one time

▪️ I cried in it three times - one out of joy, two out of pain

▪️ We had two short road trips

▪️ We explored about 250 km of gravel road together

▪️ We found one goat park

▪️ Over the years I can assume that my car stored more than 90 parking tickets

▪️ At the moment it stores two

▪️ In 2013 a Gecko of Good Fortune was added to protect us from accidents and getting lost

It also holds my newest parking ticket

▪️ Since March 2017 The Camp Unicorn protects the car from getting stolen
▪️ Currently I am on a Grand Slam of fuel economy without driving economical.
▪️ We're at 468,9 km on a more than half full tank.
▪️ The fastest I have driven my car was 142 km/h
▪️ My car has driven 24.035 kilometers since birth
▪️ and all of those without fault.
▪️ My Little Mite is a part of my family.

There is a bright future ahead, I want to explore more gravel roads, drive to different places to hike or jog there. Then I am planning a quite ambitious road trip and it looks like I have a chance to do it.

This is what people who hate the car don't understand: The car opens the whole world for you. It is a world full of adventure, emotion, and friendship.

matey