Doot doot! + Sit & Write #106
Greetings, friends!
Have I ever told you about my car?
It's a 2012 Nissan Juke. If you don't know what that looks like, and can't be bothered to google it, just imagine a bright red, overinflated clown car. But unlike the physics-defying nature of your average clown car, it can only fit 5 people in it, and has no room for extra balloons, giant floppy shoes, or any of my day-to-day clowning accessories. What I'm trying to say is, it's a big car with way too little cargo space. We named it "doot doot" because that's the sound I think it'd make if it could speak. Kind of like a Pokemon repeating its own name.
I bought it in 2019, after deciding that the 2007 Toyota Matrix I'd inherited from my late dad was getting too expensive to maintain. I'd had a vague idea of what I wanted, and chose to use one of those no-haggling dealerships to save myself the agony of negotiating. Still, the experience was a blur beginning to end--from meeting the sales rep (a part-time pastor, part-time used care s…