If I Could Drive 10,000 Miles

An article by Don Quixote    1 Comment

It’s funny to me the things we miss, the things we remember and the things we celebrate.

For me it was the 10,003rd mile on my 2004 Honda Element. I was leaving work and I was at the corner of Pearl and Fairfield in Fort Wayne. I have this urge come over me whenever I get a new job that for some reason I have to go out and get a new car. In Jan of this year I of course started working for the University of Saint Francis. It turned out that January was the worse snow we had all year.

Motivated by these two factors I went out and bought an Element. It was snazzy, 4WD, and orange. Shortly their after all the snow stopped. The funniest thing though; I had been looking online at the Honda CR-V and I thought that the Elements were the UGLIEST things on the face of the planet.

As a fluke though I built an Element online just to see what I thought of it; the only color that I could stand was the orange. It was kinda growing on me.

When I got to the dealership I hoped in the CR-V and I hated it. The driver’s area wasn’t very comfortable and my knees were racking into the steering wheel. So I asked them if they had any Elements on the lot. They had just gotten a new one in. It was orange and the right model. I feel in love and the rest is history. The coolest thing is that I was the only person to drive it; when I hopped in it only had 3 miles on it. I’ve been there for every mile since.

It was nice to celebrate the Quixote Mobile’s 10,000th mile.

In a similar line of thinking I’ve been thinking about the places that I used to live.

Kalkaska, Lansing, Charlotte, Grabill, and lastly Fort Wayne.

My first response to thinking back to all those places is first one of UGH, I would never go back there. But the more I thought about them, the more I realized that there are things I do indeed miss about them.

Kalkaska: The Big Fish downtown. G’s Pocket Pizzas (Those were the most amazing things ever created. The only thing I have been able to have come close are the defunked P’zones from Pizza Hut. Hey folks in Kalkaska, is G’s still around?)

Lansing: There is actually a lot in this town that I miss. A good Blimpies (the one’s here have driven me away), Papa Johns (not the chain), Little Caesar’s Pizza, and Celebration Cinema.

Charlotte: … I’m thinking … honest … It’s proximity to Lansing. Just kidding, I do miss the porch on my house, it was the best porch in the world. I cannot believe that my sister destroyed the bushes that I worked so hard to grow up into a privacy fence. Some of the people there were awesome.

So there you go. Some mindless nothingness.