It's GONE!!!

I just heard some very astonishing news.

Finally, my parents managed to sell off *gasp* our 25-year-old Mazda 929.

I mean...we all know that it's a piece of old junk anyway. An old metal scrap that is still running on wheels and requires a lot of effort and maintenance to keep it going...not to mention, expensive as well.

Mostly because of that, my dad's finally given up and sold it dirt cheap, to the contractor renovating our new house (supposedly to ferry his workers to and from work). And since I'm not home and there'd be no one to use the extra car, my mum would have to alternate between cars (cos Dad says we can't leave the cars unused for a few days or else it'll get cranky...and the Mazda is already cranky).

It seems like pretty good news to us, but I can't help feeling sorry for the car. (OK, I know it's just a car, but still...)

This is was the car:

• we first had with central locking and power windows. (THAT was very long ago.)
• my mum tried to teach me how to drive in.
• that I drove when I first got my P (Probationary/Pariah) license.
• I drove straight into my parent's bedroom wall. (Luckily both the wall and car is still intact.)
• my friends and I went cruising in.
• that came to my rescue in emergency situations. (When my new was car nicely parked in or in the workshop)

The Mazda was a relatively big car for me (but not for my parents NOR my brother), and I was really pissed off when people called me "Sleepy Hollow" when I drove around in it. (The person who said that, drove a car that people often use as a hearse...albeit it's a Mercedes)

Not only because I don't appreciate that, but it's really not easy trying to maneuver it on the road. Not to mention how to park OR reverse park it properly. I can proudly say that my more-decent-than-average driving skills came from dealing with this car. And when I was behind the wheel as a new driver, I just felt that I'm safe in the car.

I know I always complain about that car being a piece of junk and all, but it's still a piece of junk that I like, that I had so many adventures with. But if we just keep it, it's still going to be a piece of junk at the end of the day. So, maybe this is just the right time for us to say goodbye to it, and hope that it can still last for a decade or so.

Goodbye, my car, goodbye!