Buy my goddamn car dammit!
Trip Start
Sep 05, 2007
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Trip End
May 01, 2008
Auckland,
New Zealand
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Helped Justin unload his stuff. It took about 10 minutes. I kinda felt useless.
I was leaving his place, sitting in my car trying to get my bearings, studying a map when I heard a knock on my window. "Do you know where you are going?" Some random guy looking in my window. This is a regular occurrence in New Zealand; people go out of their way to look in your car window and see if you are looking at a map. If you are they helpfully offer directions then get offended when you go back to looking at the map. "Um, I think so..". "Are you looking for K - Road?" he asks. Hoping to get rid of him, I say sure. Then he opens the door and tries to jump in. "I'm a taxi-driver", he says, "I'll show you". He sees the front seat is full, so he jumps in the back. This is a relatively sketchy part of town, so I'm kind of taken off guard. I'm not too worried, the guy seems harmless, but nonetheless... I have to admit, it was a pretty ballsy act on his part. I look at him in the back seat behind me, "It's OK" he reassures me, "I drive a taxi, I can show you". I now know how a taxi driver feels when a random guy jumps into the back seat of his cab. It's a weird feeling driving some stranger around. It's even weirder when you are driving the taxi driver around. We get to K-road and he hops out. I think about telling him "that will be five dollars please" in my best Indian accent, but by that time he's wished me well and taken off.
I put my car in the backpackers car market the other day. The cost is $65 for three days. I listed it as $2400, a low price in my mind, but I want to get rid of it. It's been there just over a day now, and I'm getting kind of edgy. I know I should give it time, but I'm not patient and can't understand why anyone wouldn't jump on a seafoam green Honda for $2400 by now. Maybe I'll go back up and harass the customers into buying my car.
Ohh, and happy Hallmark Day ;)
