- Ice/snow removing tools
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Floor mats (…yes, the link is a joke)
- Jack (if it doesn’t come with one)
- Emergency reflective signage (I think I legally must carry it on the highway?)
- Comprehensive maps of Hokkaido
- Antifreeze wiper fluid
- Engine oil
- Distilled water (if I have one of those refillable batteries… I don’t remember)
- Work gloves (in case I have to touch things under the hood)
- Air freshener
- Car adapter for my phone (so I can be lazy and use its built-in GPS)
- A Nohohon or a Flip Flap (there is a classy place for one on the passenger side dash)
- Tissues (in case someone is not-so-classy and makes a mess in my car)
I EVENTUALLY want a way to hook up my iPod, but I’m going to investigate the options first (one of which involves taking out the stereo and looking for aux jacks). Am I missing anything else for the winter?
Guys, I am so excited to get a car.
I rode my bike to a different school this morning, and it was pretty horrible. The way there was mostly uphill, and the steepest part of the hill also happened to be covered in ice. So I walked it… which unfortunately did not really help because I have the stamina of an elf suffering from muscular dystrophy who is hooked up to a respirator.
All the while I was thinking “two more weeks, and you’ll be driving this shit.”
I arrived at that school late, tired, and sweaty, by the way… it was very very attractive.
Anyway, I found out later in the day, after I’d gone back to my main school, that the car salesman guy is supposed to come by TOMORROW with information about financing the car purchase (buying the whole thing at once will unfortunately mean I cannot eat, heat my house, OR get gas for the car for a month… so I figure I should spread the price out). We had gone to talk with him yesterday, when he said they’d come by “Tuesday next week.” I figured that was in 9 days from Sunday, but I will certainly take it if it’s tomorrow (then, it’d only take another week until I can drive that car off the lot! Woohoo!).
So now, when I need to kill time, I start looking around for ridiculous car accessories. Unfortunately, monetary concerns and sanity limits me to only the most necessary/cheapest items (ice scrapers, Hokkaido road maps, air freshener, something to enable playing my iPod through the car stereo… PRIORITIES!).
Anyway, hope tomorrow brings some good news. I would REALLY like to stop riding a bike on ice and through sleet.
