All This Is That: Another Smack In The Head By The Modern World, Or, How My Beetle Broke My Heart

Saturday, July 23, 2005

Another Smack In The Head By The Modern World, Or, How My Beetle Broke My Heart

I'd been waiting for this for weeks. The odometer in my Bug was just about to roll over and I wanted to see those fantastic goose eggs. I'd driven nearly every one of those miles to arrive at this milestone.

99,999.1
99,999.2
99,999.3
99,999.4
99,999.5
99,999.6
99,999.7
99,999.8
99,999.9

Yes! This was it...here it comes! And then::::::::::::

100,000

What??! A hundred thousand?!! What happened to the zeros?? Then I noticed there was even one more spot for another number. The odometer would go up to nine million miles.

Gypped again by the modern world.
---o0o---

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: Snow!!, is that your car in the snow?; 7/25/2005
Keekee Brummet said...: No, just an incredible facsimile. We haven't had that much snow in four years...; 7/25/2005

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