The "When Will The Parade End?" Story

It was an ordinary day.  Just finishing running the car through the automatic car wash to get the road salt off before driving to Maryland to pick up my wife who was helping our granddaughter recuperate after having back surgery. 

Our 2014 Honda CRV

A few weeks ago I took our 2014 Honda CRV to have it serviced at the dealership where I purchased it.  The car is five years old and had only 34K miles on it.  We kept good care of the car and it showed.  The dealership, Jones Honda, mailed us a letter a few days later offering a fantastic trade-in if we would like to have a new Honda.  Shared the letter with my wife and we made a visit to see Jonathon. 

Our new 2019 Honda CRV

He showed us a few different models and then we drove the new CRV.  I must admit we loved it and after a test drive told him we would call back with a decision.  The car has so many neat features.....features that will take us years to learn how to use since most of them are digital.  We placed the call and asked what the cost would be using the trade-in amount they had offered us.  Shortly afterward I took Carol to Maryland to help with our granddaughter and I made arrangements to get the new car.  The weather was sunny the day I picked it up at the dealership, but went downhill shortly after.  Kept the car in the garage until a day before I was to pick up Carol.  Ran it through the car wash and made the trip to Maryland from our home in Pennsylvania.  The two-hour journey was filled with a variety of problems with the steering wheel vibrating if I went over a line with the tires, the brakes coming on all of a sudden when someone pulled in front of me a bit to close, the blue-tooth system beeping at me continuously as I tired to listen to music from my phone and the inside temperature lowering below 50 since I couldn't figure how to use it.  EVERYTHING IS DIGITAL.....but me and the round tires that are still made of rubber! 

My first car.....a 1953 Henry J.

Our new Honda CRV is one more automobile in a long line of cars Carol and I have owned during our single and married lifetimes.  My first car was a 1953 Henry J which my friend Jere helped me rebuild the engine in his dad's garage. 

A 1955 Ford exactly like the second car I owned.

Then came a 1955 pink and white Ford followed by a 1958 Chevy Impala convertible.  The list goes on and on with a few really neat cars in between just boring cars.  Check out the photos I have included of some of the cars we have owned.  Some are the exact same car, but others are photos of similar cars. 

My next car.....a 1958 Chevy Impala ragtop exactly like this one.

As for the new CRV, everyone will see us coming and we will be able to find it in the parking lot at the grocery store since it is Molten Lava Pearl!  Looks red in the shade and orange in the bright light.  A real keeper.  We often wonder when the parade of cars will end.  We still feel capable of diving the car, but not quite sure how it works.....YET!  It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.

Carol's first car.....a 1965 Austin Healey Sprite.

The car I owned when we got married.....a 1961 Pontiac Tempest.

My final photo just had to be a photo of Carol and myself driving our 1987 Corvette Coupe
on the boardwalk in Ocean City, Maryland.  It became too costly so we sold it.