Odometer Obsession...
Feb. 23rd, 2017 02:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisThere is a Trader Joe's across the street from the gym. But, it doesn't open until 8 and these days I'm long gone by then. I need Trader Joe's Blue Cheese Dressing and shredded Swiss and Grueyre cheese. I could wait until Saturday but why? So I hopped in the car and went to the one on Capital Hill. Things are arranged a little differently but I couldn't find the cheese or the dressing. Finally I went to customer service. No dressing. They are out. Buggers. The cheese was hiding. I wasn't embarrassed because it took two staff people to find it.
On the up side, they had a frozen pie I like and a tin of toffee I like - both of which are holiday items and the store across from the gym has been out of them since early January. So. Score.
On the way home, I remembered to look at my odometer. 19933 miles. I'm waiting on the big 20 oh oh oh. If I don't go anywhere special, we're looking at next Monday or Tuesday. The car is 6.5 years old.
I got the car gassed up, too. I had not focused on how high the price of gas had gotten... again. It's not that big a deal for me because I rarely buy more than 5 or 6 gallons a month. But I was surprised.
Guess I'll get up now and go make some blue cheese dressing.
On the up side, they had a frozen pie I like and a tin of toffee I like - both of which are holiday items and the store across from the gym has been out of them since early January. So. Score.
On the way home, I remembered to look at my odometer. 19933 miles. I'm waiting on the big 20 oh oh oh. If I don't go anywhere special, we're looking at next Monday or Tuesday. The car is 6.5 years old.
I got the car gassed up, too. I had not focused on how high the price of gas had gotten... again. It's not that big a deal for me because I rarely buy more than 5 or 6 gallons a month. But I was surprised.
Guess I'll get up now and go make some blue cheese dressing.
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Date: 2017-02-25 10:02 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-02-25 10:20 pm (UTC)I have not taken any long trips at all but I'd be perfectly comfortably doing it. A couple who live in this building have one that they took on a 3 week camping trip to the middle of the United States a couple of years ago. They said it was great.
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Date: 2017-02-25 10:28 pm (UTC)About 3 smarts and over a decade ago I drove from the south coast to North Wales via Oxford to collect my friend for a gig. It took about 5 hours or more to get there and my little car was running so hot I was surprised it wasn't glowing
We went to the Smart garage today, my husband is thinking of trading in his VW Golf for a FourTwo, I really hope he does
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Date: 2017-02-25 10:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-02-26 08:03 am (UTC)One of the 16/17 ones.
I like them, they have lots of gadgets and come in orange, which I like too. I think he hopes I'll drive it more often than I do the Golf. I always feel happier in a Smart