Specifically cars. I just don't treat them with a lot of respect and care. It's a metal and plastic thing, nothing more. Today I didn't take into account the freezing rain and crunched into a icy snowbank. I bent up the bumper and messed up some plastic, but I was able to bend it all back so you won't know when you look at it.
I'm ticked at myself for not being prepared for the icy conditions, for breaking like my car has ABS (my last car did) instead of threshold breaking. I'm ticked, but not angry. Meh. I don't see myself as a good driver, so this doesn't hurt my self image. My car isn't "my baby". Because I don't put a ton of value on the car, I have not put a lot of effort in keeping it nice. If I got a really nice car, I think that the same thing would happen and the guys in my family would weep at my lack of appreciation for having something so nice.
Might not drive a nice car in the winter either ;)
ReplyDeleteHumm... hadn't thought of that... ;-)
ReplyDeleteIt's almost impossible to keep a car nice while driving it in the winter. With all the salt, sand, ice, and other things that want to destroy your car, it's almost not worth buying a nice car, since no matter what you do, it's probably going to get wrecked anyway.
ReplyDeleteI would also like to say that I hate things that aren't "nice". Most of the time I try to buy nice things when I can afford it, and when I don't buy nice things, I feel like I end up paying for it later. Sometimes I do buy the cheap stuff, but that's only if I don't plan on using it that often.
Sometimes when I buy something nice I take care of it. Like the Oakley's I had for years and years. A car, I'm not so sure! I'm not a car guy. Computers, I take great car of them. :)
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