What kind of car do you drive?
I walk to the laundry room and open the door that leads to my garage. My arms rest on each side of the doorframes. "Let's Get it On" by Marvin Gaye starts playing my head as the garage door rises, slowly showing a full-body view of Nancy.
She's a champagne-colored '98 Mercedes Benz C280. Leather interior, automatic transmission (boo!), sun/moon roof, 6-cylinder engine, and power locks, windows, and seats.
And the story of how I got her goes like this (cliffnote style):
- Rewind to December 2004.
- I just turned 16.
- My parents called me into their room.
- I thought I was in trouble.
- But instead, my dad was on his computer and shows me an auction he just won on eBaymotors.
- "This is your car," he said.
- "omfgz lyke...NO WAYZ???//!!!1" I exclaimed.
- "YA, we want'd u 2 hav a safe car LOL!!" mama said.
- The the car comes in a week later on a tow truck from a dealership in Arizona.
- I was so stoked, cuz I was expecting to get my older sister's car as a hand-me-down (which was a black 2001 Toyota Carolla).
- Since I live up on a hill with a gated entrance, the car was delivered at a nearby neighborhood since the tow truck wouldn't be able to get in.
- So I got to drive it for the very first time up the hill to my house.
- I was amazed with the smoothness and the newness of the vehicle.
I've taken her many places I haven't been allowed to drive, and she's been a very loyal companion. Although we've been through some rough times and she's had some problems (broken a/c for two summers and a busted gas gauge), I plan on keeping Nancy until I die. <3
And before anyone gets mad and says that I'm spoiled - I'm sorry, but I can't help that my parents love me so much.
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