{"id":252,"date":"2004-11-20T20:53:48","date_gmt":"2004-11-21T02:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/blog\/?p=414"},"modified":"2004-11-20T20:53:48","modified_gmt":"2004-11-21T02:53:48","slug":"what-kind-of-car-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"What Kind of Car are You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian and I were talking about cars the other day..\u00c2\u00a0 You know, since we&#8217;re preoccupied about that stuff lately.\u00c2\u00a0 He wants to be practical and perhaps get a good reliable used car for me.\u00c2\u00a0 I was thinking that if that were the case I&#8217;d just wait a couple of years and get the car that I really want.\u00c2\u00a0 But then, we don&#8217;t think Sunny will last six months, let alone two years!<\/p>\n<p>In trying to think of suitable cars, I asked Brian what kind of car he thought I would be if I were a car and not a person.\u00c2\u00a0 He said that I would be a Cadillac XLR.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t even know what those look like so I had to ask him to elaborate.\u00c2\u00a0 He goes, &#8220;You know.. Classy with nice lines.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 I bust up laughing.\u00c2\u00a0 He must be thinking of someone else, surely!\u00c2\u00a0 I would never in a million years describe myself as classy.\u00c2\u00a0 You&#8217;re talking to a girl who picks her nose, likes to sniff armpits, thinks farting the alphabet while aiming it at your spouse is hilarious and burps louder than Shrek.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I was thinking to myself that I could get a car to match my personality.\u00c2\u00a0 So I asked him, &#8220;Can I afford a Cadillac XLR?&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 He goes, &#8220;Hell no!&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Ack, how can he be telling me I resemble a car that I can&#8217;t even afford?\u00c2\u00a0 WTF?!<\/p>\n<p>Then he starts thinking, &#8220;What did we say I was again?&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 I go, &#8220;A Suburban&#8221; as I burst into laughter.\u00c2\u00a0 I remember telling him he reminded me of a Suburban because he&#8217;s big and roomy.\u00c2\u00a0 He goes, &#8220;Oh, yeah..\u00c2\u00a0 Because I&#8217;m strong and powerful with lots of room in the trunk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I go, &#8220;You could be a Suburban with a flat tire&#8221; just because I like picking on him.\u00c2\u00a0 He goes, &#8220;Great.\u00c2\u00a0 So not only am I big, I&#8217;m slow too.\u00c2\u00a0 You could say that I&#8217;m a Suburban with a flat tire and misfiring piston because I&#8217;m a little crazy too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And then, of course, I had to bring back the conversation to me..\u00c2\u00a0 Because of how self-absorbed I am.\u00c2\u00a0 You know how it goes.\u00c2\u00a0 Seriously though, I really didn&#8217;t buy that Cadillac crap.\u00c2\u00a0 I think he must be wanting to get laid or something.\u00c2\u00a0 But I digress, I want a car that would resemble my personality so I had him keep thinking.\u00c2\u00a0 And then I came up with an idea on my own..\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;I could be an RX8,&#8221; I tell him.\u00c2\u00a0 But he disagreed.\u00c2\u00a0 He said I wasn&#8217;t fast and racy.<\/p>\n<p>So I still don&#8217;t know.\u00c2\u00a0 Hmmm..\u00c2\u00a0 Now I it&#8217;s your turn to ponder the question: if you were a car, what kind of car would you be?\u00c2\u00a0 Do you think I would be a Cadillac convertible?\u00c2\u00a0 If not, what car do you think I would be?\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m curious!\u00c2\u00a0 Leave the answer in the comments.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m hoping we&#8217;ll get some interesting ones. =)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: I went to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cadillac.com\/\"  target=\"out\"><font color=\"#000000\">the Cadillac website<\/font><\/a> and checked out what an XLR looks like so I know what Brian is talking about.\u00c2\u00a0 I gotta admit.\u00c2\u00a0 They&#8217;re pretty spiffy.\u00c2\u00a0 I think I just replaced my dream car!\u00c2\u00a0 Lotus Elise step aside.\u00c2\u00a0 Ching wants an XLR in blue steel now!\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe when I win the lottery!\u00c2\u00a0 LOL!\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian and I were talking about cars the other day..\u00c2\u00a0 You know, since we&#8217;re preoccupied about that stuff lately.\u00c2\u00a0 He wants to be practical and perhaps get a good reliable used car for me.\u00c2\u00a0 I was thinking that if that were the case I&#8217;d just wait a couple of years and get the car that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}