Fun story. Seems like one bad car is a small price to pay to connect you and your wife. Best car ever is easy. Won $5000 off price and bought the first year Honda Pilot in 2003. All three of my boys drove it through college, always safe and reliable and then became the safe vehicle for protecting my first grandson. Eventually donated to …
Fun story. Seems like one bad car is a small price to pay to connect you and your wife. Best car ever is easy. Won $5000 off price and bought the first year Honda Pilot in 2003. All three of my boys drove it through college, always safe and reliable and then became the safe vehicle for protecting my first grandson. Eventually donated to charity. Simply would not die. Probably over 250K and transmission was just fine :) -- my dream car is when autonomy and driverless become a reality so I will just be able to sit in the back and chat and go anywhere..
I think you’re right that a bad lease is a small price to pay for better communication. And at this point, we just laugh about the experience and remind ourselves of the lesson we learned. So that’s a win in my book!
Love that you donated The Pilot. I donated the Midnight Rider to our local public radio station. That felt fitting since I had used that car a lot when I was a journalist and I liked the idea that it would continue funding local journalism.
NPR & MPR have been getting my money and ear for many years. Cool that you supported that cause! Our local affiliate MPR is amongst the best endowed of any Public Radio resource in the country. The former Joan Mansfield married Ray Kroc (McDonalds). She left an ENORMOUS gift to Minnesota Public Radio. The Krocs met in a nightclub in St. Paul where she was singing.
I agree so heartily about donating! For me the donation was really amazing as things come back to you. We have donated three cars over the years to the same charitable organization.
I have a relative (one of my dad's cousins) who contracted polio in the 1940s. Her parents in Buffalo NY were rather forward thinking regarding care as he was a physician. Despite prevailing attitudes, they shipped their 3-4 year old daughter off by train for almost two years to the Twin Cities. Sister Eizabeth Kenney, largely credited with establishing the concepts of physical therapy shopped the country for takers of her then controversial treatment for polio she had developed in Australia as a bush nurse and got no takers until the University of Minnesota gave her an opportunity. She established the Kenney Institute in Minneapolis and this later became the 'cure' for polio. Facilities by that name emerged all over the United States eventually. Most large cities have a former Kenney Institute. My relative returned home in two years able to walk. She has lived most of her life in a fulfilling fashion and only now, in her late 70s has lost her mobility.
We did the donation not knowing the story. Fast forward a few years and I organized a family genealogy outreach with one of MLs brothers. We came to know the rest of the story and it only made the original donation a bit sweeter. One od theae nights I will blog about it I think with her permission.
Fun story. Seems like one bad car is a small price to pay to connect you and your wife. Best car ever is easy. Won $5000 off price and bought the first year Honda Pilot in 2003. All three of my boys drove it through college, always safe and reliable and then became the safe vehicle for protecting my first grandson. Eventually donated to charity. Simply would not die. Probably over 250K and transmission was just fine :) -- my dream car is when autonomy and driverless become a reality so I will just be able to sit in the back and chat and go anywhere..
I think you’re right that a bad lease is a small price to pay for better communication. And at this point, we just laugh about the experience and remind ourselves of the lesson we learned. So that’s a win in my book!
Love that you donated The Pilot. I donated the Midnight Rider to our local public radio station. That felt fitting since I had used that car a lot when I was a journalist and I liked the idea that it would continue funding local journalism.
NPR & MPR have been getting my money and ear for many years. Cool that you supported that cause! Our local affiliate MPR is amongst the best endowed of any Public Radio resource in the country. The former Joan Mansfield married Ray Kroc (McDonalds). She left an ENORMOUS gift to Minnesota Public Radio. The Krocs met in a nightclub in St. Paul where she was singing.
I agree so heartily about donating! For me the donation was really amazing as things come back to you. We have donated three cars over the years to the same charitable organization.
I have a relative (one of my dad's cousins) who contracted polio in the 1940s. Her parents in Buffalo NY were rather forward thinking regarding care as he was a physician. Despite prevailing attitudes, they shipped their 3-4 year old daughter off by train for almost two years to the Twin Cities. Sister Eizabeth Kenney, largely credited with establishing the concepts of physical therapy shopped the country for takers of her then controversial treatment for polio she had developed in Australia as a bush nurse and got no takers until the University of Minnesota gave her an opportunity. She established the Kenney Institute in Minneapolis and this later became the 'cure' for polio. Facilities by that name emerged all over the United States eventually. Most large cities have a former Kenney Institute. My relative returned home in two years able to walk. She has lived most of her life in a fulfilling fashion and only now, in her late 70s has lost her mobility.
We did the donation not knowing the story. Fast forward a few years and I organized a family genealogy outreach with one of MLs brothers. We came to know the rest of the story and it only made the original donation a bit sweeter. One od theae nights I will blog about it I think with her permission.