GON
$100 Site Donor 2024
It is 0522 this morning as I post this little thread. I woke up at 0330, unable to sleep from working in a time zone averaging 12 hour difference for the last eight weeks. I arrived home OOA 0030 yesterday (Saturday) morning. One of the first things I did when I came home, was check the trickle charger on my beater 2005 Mercedes S-class, I used a trickle charger I was not sure was up for the challenge- it was.
Slept for a few hours, and then woke up and took the "beater" Mercedes for a drive to the post office. What joy it was to get behind of the wheel of my wrongly neglected (by me) 235k salvage vehicle Mercedes. For the past eight weeks, I had a driver most every day. But I had to coordinate in advance where I was going. The driver(s) had limits such as a 12-hour workday I had to follow. This morning I want to get into one of my vehicles and go for some bacon and eggs (can't because breakfast places around here don't get cooking until after 7am). But I have the freedom with an ICE to do what I want to do, without needing to coordinate with anyone else.
Even though I had transportation always available, living eight weeks under someone else's rules gave me a great appreciation for the freedoms an ICE vehicle brings to an INDIVIDUAL. One I will never take for granted.
Slept for a few hours, and then woke up and took the "beater" Mercedes for a drive to the post office. What joy it was to get behind of the wheel of my wrongly neglected (by me) 235k salvage vehicle Mercedes. For the past eight weeks, I had a driver most every day. But I had to coordinate in advance where I was going. The driver(s) had limits such as a 12-hour workday I had to follow. This morning I want to get into one of my vehicles and go for some bacon and eggs (can't because breakfast places around here don't get cooking until after 7am). But I have the freedom with an ICE to do what I want to do, without needing to coordinate with anyone else.
Even though I had transportation always available, living eight weeks under someone else's rules gave me a great appreciation for the freedoms an ICE vehicle brings to an INDIVIDUAL. One I will never take for granted.