Friday, July 08, 2005

Wreckage Cannot be created or destroyed, only repaired.

I should have a new machine sometime next week, at which point I shall begin the long and arduous task of updating everything I said I would from the last post. Arduous is such a cool word. I wonder if I spelled it right. Anyway, to tide you over, here's an amusing theory I developed based on my driving experience. In the past four months, my 62' Greenbriar has suffered a rear-end assault, a side-swipe, and two flat tires. None of it has caused irreparable damage or prevented me from driving for long, and neither of the collisions were my fault, but all three incidents (both flats happened at the same time) have caused undue stress and financial annoyance. This has lead me to believe in a law of conservation of wreckage. This law states that every individual who owns or will ever own an automobile will suffer a given amount of wreckage. Because of the short life-spans of the vehicles I can afford, it is safe to say that I will probably own several different automobiles. Thus, the damage done to my modes of transportation must be split thin to cover all my vehicles evenly. It is probably safe to say that I will not be any more wrecks until I start driving something else.