I was walking the dog Friday night and on our way back into the apartment I noticed one of the car’s tires looked a little squidgy. I put the dog inside and came back out to check the pressure; the little stick in the thing didn’t even pop out of the thing. You know what I’m talking about.

I parked at work this morning, got out of my car, locked it, and walked away. My car’s lock sounds like a small bird chirping. Then I heard an actual small bird chirp back at it.

In order to get the Z3 to the camp site, we had already driven about a quarter mile down a road that the car was never meant to go down. It was dusty, there were big rocks, and the small hill I had to crest to get off the main road and onto this path was so steep, I only saw sky staring back at me through the…

A note: this story originally appeared on my tumblr. But I’m putting it here too, because I wrote it and I can do that.

I gave a man a check for just under five digits about four months ago and walked away with the keys to a 1999 BMW Z3 Coupe with about 115,000 miles on the clock. It’s not the balls-out fast one. It’s the other one.

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