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It seems to be a particularly slow season for blog posts. To show I'm not dead, just busy, I will let one slip from the private archives.
As a kid I remember hearing grown ups say stuff like "you never lend your car and your wife to anyone". Please allow me to call "bull-crap" to that! I mean the first part about the car, not the second part about the wife.
You mean to say that I should not give my car to a friend who needs to use it, even if I don't need to use it myself at that particular time? To make things more clear, we are talking perhaps about one of those friends I recurrently entrust my life to as we are hiking up some perilous ravine on a God forsaken mountain side. So what, they're good enough to hold the line that separates my life from death but not good enough to drive my car?
Yes, you might say, but what if they don't care for it as much as you do and do something stupid when driving and crash it? Most unfortunate indeed, I will say, hoping that no matter the state of the car, my friend will be ok. For a car is just metal and plastic and glass, and can be fixed or replaced, but a friend is meat and blood and feelings for you, difficult to fix and unlikely to be found again.
I guess, this is a good example of the kind of ideological divide that separates some people from some other people. On one hand we have older generations, for which a car was a valuable possession and status symbol which took years of work to achieve, and on the other hand we have my generation, for which a car is a consumable you change every couple of years.
Generation gap aside, there's also that breed of man who puts his wife and his car on the same level of value, whom I think this proverb should originally be credited to. I've just remembered a couple of people I've heard using the quote, and I shan't mention any of them as I realize not all have their age as an excuse.
Just another ranting, of debatable utility, from the periphery of my brain, on a late night drive through the car-filled streets of Bucharest.
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