Around the Earth 8 Times!
Tuesday, November 27, 2007A big congratulations to Ally for reaching a pretty big milestone!
Who's Ally you ask? Well, she's none other than my trusty little 1995 Nissan Altima! She's definitely showing some signs of age, a few rusty spots, certainly has her fair share of squeaks and rattles and various lights that shouldn't come on do from time to time, while ones that should don't anymore. Yet, she still keeps on chugging, still gets about 30mpg and can still even top out the speedo if asked. Err.. Umm... Hypothetically, on a closed course and definitely not ever on the interstate, EVER! Yeah!!
What was that? What makes Ally a she? Well, SINCE you ask... Well, she's got a nice cute roundish shape, can be pretty sassy, she gets really grumpy in hot or cold, and well, she does wear a bra! I mean no guy would be caught dead with a "bro," ya know?
So yeah, the important milestone? Ally hit the big 200k!
I realized I was coming close to hitting the big rollover a little while before Thanksgiving. Since the first owner of Ally was none other than The Mom, I decided I needed to budget my miles for the week so hopefully I could roll the big 200k while visiting the parental units in Madison. The budgeting was a great success and I rolled into Mad town at 199993 miles.
After much turkey eating The Mom and I set out on a 7 mile drive. (Anybody else get the Gilligan's theme song shoot through their head there? Anyway...) We headed off down one of the major streets in the area, hit the end and started a loop back when the Odometer got all niney...
Once we hit the main road again, we started back home and just about when Ally was getting set to turn a lot of nines into a lot of zeroes, we passed a local pub and grill. Deciding it had to be fate to have a celebratory drink, I took the next turn, did a Uey, (I'd never actually thought of the spelling of that word until now...) and just as we pulled into the purveyor of adult beverages:
Bam! Two Hundred THOUSAND big fatty miles. And still going strong! Assuming they ever pave the equator, that's far enough to circle the globe 8 times! Go Ally go!
Now, here's hoping she survives till I'm done digging out of the unemployment induced debt!
Congrats Ally! Carry on...
posted by Chief Slacker @ 1:54 PM,
3 Comments:
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At Tue Nov 27, 05:34:00 PM,
Porq said...
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Congrats-a-tation!!
AND you did a MARVELOUS job on spelling "Uey".
I'm happy for ya Bro! I had cars that 200000 when I first bought them for a little of 50 bucks but your "ALLY" is your GAL!
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At Thu Nov 29, 12:10:00 PM,
delmer said...
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Suh-weeet!
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At Sat Dec 01, 09:26:00 AM,
OzzyC said...
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I'm a little over 1/4 of the way there with my Dakota. I plan on owning it that long. Why buy a new car and payments?? One month's worth of car payments is like 5 to 6 extra tanks of gas per month