It's kind of fun to have snow I guess, but not fun for driving. While we were on the other side of the state for Christmas we bought a car. It's a lot easier for us to get to our jobs with two cars instead of one person driving the other--especially when our start and end times are variable every day. Now that the snow has come we will have to drive each other to work again though. We haven't gotten snow tires for the new car yet, and you can't put on chains.
We're just grateful the snow came a half hour after we got home from our trip to Spokane today. It would not have been fun driving on the highway in the snow with regular tires on a new car...
(Isn't it funny--really I should be worried about sliding off the road because I don't want to get hurt, but somehow the money it would cost to fix the car seems like a bigger deal. The whole drive home to Pullman when we first bought the car was nerve racking. I kept imagining getting in a wreck just because it's a new car. Do new cars really get in accidents more often than old cars? I think it just feels that way.)
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We're finally getting snow, too. Just this morning it's coming down in fine flakes, with more predicted over the next couple of days. It's so pretty. Just wish I could stay home. Yeah, it is funny about priorities. I bet it's true for most people to think $ and protecting that new/newer car body. Parents of new drivers often think: have them drive a big hulking clunker to protect their child's body! hahahaha
It's true though, I know what you mean about worrying your going to crash your new car. I feel that way with the van. And last thanksgiving we were on our way back from Idaho and we slid of the road into a traffic marker. The first thought was oh man we probably got a dent. Then I thought wait, I should probably be thinking, are the kids ok? :) I think if it had really been bad I wouldn't have been thinking about the car. :)
Nice car!
You will get use to driving that new car and then you will not have the anxiety attacks about wrecking it.
We had 11 inches of snow. But it wasn't too bad. South of Seattle was a lot worse with all the ice.
I still like driving big hulking cars, that illusion of safty I suppose.
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