Smurf has died.

[helen99]

I suppose I should have suspected something when he never sent the pics he promised... Still -- I attributed that to being busy or an "out of sight out of mind" kind of thing. Easy to do with an ex-coworker whose only connection with you is that they sold you a car...

On Thursday I received notification of a certified letter that I was to pick up at the post office. The following day, we went to the post office to get it. It was an official looking letter from a towing company in Baltimore. The letter said that they had my car. After the first "wtf", we realized that the car they meant was Smurf.

The person I sold Smurf to never even registered the car, so I was the last registered owner, hence the letter. We called the towing place and asked what shape Smurf was in.

Totaled. It had been left to rot on some lot for the past whatever time it's been -- I'd have to check back in my LJ to see exactly when I sold it to him. He claimed to have repainted it, but now I don't believe him. I think he just said that to appease the weird person who called him 2 or 3 times to see how a worthless heap she sold him a while ago was doing. I told him to return it if he didn't want it anymore, but since he had let it rot, I suppose he decided not to go that route. As for me, the lot fees from December would cost more than I'd get for the parts, and I have no place to store an unregistered heap, so I told them to scrap it.

So it ends.

I am inordinately sad over the demise of a car. I suppose it's because it was my mom's car before she sold it to me. It occurs to me that its life ended around the same time hers did. They found it about a month ago, but it looked to have been dead for longer than that. Probably since April.

Comments

[per-akh.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Wow. I'm sorry.

[helen99.livejournal.com]

Thanks.. I wish I'd thought to give it to someone who would have had fun restoring it. Bad choice on my part. It would have been 20 this year.

[hai-kah-uhk.livejournal.com]

That's really sad. I can see why you're sad. Maybe it's not so inordinate.

[helen99.livejournal.com]

They don't make them like that anymore...

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Even if it's an inanimate object, that is sad. I'm sorry your mother's car's useful life ended that way.

[helen99.livejournal.com]

I guess it's good that it ended before it caught fire or something. Still, yaeh.

[dogemperor.livejournal.com]

:( *hugs* (And damnit, I hate stupid people like the one who junked your car :()

[helen99.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me too. He said he was going to restore it which was the whole reason I even sold it to him - otherwise I would have given it to a friend.

[jarandhel.livejournal.com]

Damn that sucks.... I'm sorry.

[helen99.livejournal.com]

Thanks... It's probably for the best. It wasn't safe to drive unless someone worked on the body and a couple of mechanical problems it was having when it was sold. What I didn't know then was that scraun23 knows some people in WVA who might have been able to repair it cheaply. Realistically, though, I don't have room for another vehicle. It's just... I don't know.

I am inordinately sad over the demise of a car

[rebelfilms.livejournal.com]

I havent owned a car so I dont know, but I know that anything to which you have been attached (car, computer etc) is mourned at my house when its demise comes.. How soppy am I? :D .

Re: I am inordinately sad over the demise of a car

[helen99.livejournal.com]

Thus has my house filled to its brim with books...

[ebonhost.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry. It's never good to see -anything- mistreated, even if it's a car that could still have had some more life left in it.

[helen99.livejournal.com]

Hopefully they can use the parts or the scrap metal for something, but probably not. Junkyards are full of things that will never be recycled or used again.

[lupabitch.livejournal.com]

Ouch. I'm sorry to hear about that :( Just because the car isn't "alive" doesn't mean there's no spirit there.

[helen99.livejournal.com]

Yeah... This one sure did. We had a workshop at WtT for a couple of years called "Vehicular Magic". Recognizing that spirit and naming it and talking to it were among the things kyrin7 mentioned during the workshop.

[lupabitch.livejournal.com]

I am an animist. Everything has spirits. That includes cars, and everyone I know who treats their car as though it has a spirit gets a better running car.

[podisodd.livejournal.com]

Eesh, my condolences. At the very least, you don't work with the person you sold smurf to anymore.

[helen99.livejournal.com]

He was pretty short-lived, as a matter of fact. They hired him because he said he could do a certain type of coding, and it turned out he was just sayin... I didn't find this out until after he left.