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take me home, denver as reply to Marc was Alone

Abraham Kim
Hyundai Bloomington, IN
Take me home, Denver. Take me home. Where I belong.

Marc Love repeated this to different tunes. There was nothing else for him to do. He even wanted his captor to come back. Enjoyed his presence better than being down here alone.

Take me home, Denver. Take me home. Where I belong.

He...
Table tennis for three
Lol why do you feel like you're interrupting?

We both imagined how cool it might be to have a story that is built by more than two people.

This story goes way back. Some of the threads are broken because we didn't reply directly to a prior post.

The original post that started it all was this one: 
Passing Time Drew
 

There's also this other thread: 
The Blue Man returns Yours Truly
 

The best thing about writing together has been the different worlds and characters we've explored together. Like there's the story of Keith and Marianne living in space via 
Spacecity
 

There's been Denver and Blue driving across the country in a 
Hyundai
.

There's the man in the expensive suit.

The diner in 
Gas City
. Maxxx with his vanity license plates. The 
Vietnamese
restaurant. The 
school shooting
. etc etc etc

drewbaca_
and I joked how we would be doing this for decades. The story compounds in value over time becaues when you look back at it... it's not whether the writing was good or not that matters. But rather the fun and giggles and meaning had along the way.

PS this drew is different than the other drew 
drewb
 
Abraham Kim

Westcity
gmc utility van as reply to Cracks

Abraham Kim
Tesla Hyundai Gas City gasoline waitress GMC
Every car on the street was white. This made Sally think everybody who lived on the street was pragmatic. She wondered how long a cargo utility van could last. A lot of people made their living in them. Plumbers. Electricians. Carpenters.

What lended to these utility vans lasting so long? Sally's...

Westcity
there as reply to A friend

Abraham Kim
beer friends life Suburban Hyundai cigarette Spacecity
"I'd like a  beer as well."

Denver raised his hand. It took ten seconds. His voice wheezed through the air. He'd taken his oxygen mask  off. Marc Love had already gotten up but Denver swatted him away.

The waiter acknowledged the request. Gave the two younger men a look that asked 'is...

Westcity
burning oil as reply to The Car

Abraham Kim
oil Hyundai mechanic
The car was now burning a quart of oil every 500 miles. A normal person would get that fixed as soon as they could afford to. They weren't planning on driving it back. So let it burn, let it god damn burn, the man in the expensive suit said while...

Westcity
man-thing as reply to The Carter

Abraham Kim
Hyundai booze
"Good to be back here."

"Is it?"

"Not really. Kind of uncomfortable actually."

"What about it?"

"Nothing about it. Just the fact that it's now. Time passes so fast. Well I should go. Thanks for showing me the old place again."

"Yes. You should come over sometime. If you're in town that is."

Will told her...

Westcity
real people

Abraham Kim
gas Tesla Hyundai IPA engine
There was something about the rumble of a traditional  gas   engine . All the fluids inside that required changing. All the moving parts, any one of them apt for going haywire at any moment and put you on the curb. The complexity and precariousness of it all made the car...

Westcity
gas guzzler

Abraham Kim
car startup Hyundai Tesla gasoline gas station gas electric vehicle conservative media
Will wasn't like everyone he knew back out West. For example he didn't want an electric car. He didn't know anybody out West who didn't find electric vehicles superior. In fact nobody out West even considered the possibility that anyone would prefer a gas guzzling  car . His friends assumed...

Westcity
broken down in kansas as reply to Drive

Abraham Kim
Toyota Hyundai Kansas van Asians tow truck adventure Topeka credit card
It wasn't until Kansas that the  van finally broke down. It was only a matter of time. You can expect a later model Toyota or even a Hyundai to go all the way to the Pacific and back. Damn those Asians could really make cars couldn't they? But with these...

Westcity
summer work as reply to Hey Ya

Abraham Kim
Hyundai Westcity millennials
"Now I know there's a lot of millennials out there. So this next song goes out to you. You'll know what song it is right from the first line. If you don't then you must not've been rockin it in the 2000's. Keep it dialed here to one oh two...

Abe's Blog
bio

Abraham Kim
Hyundai oil gaosline
A barrel of  oil apparently consists of 42 gallons of crude oil. Refineries then yield that into about 20 gallons of  gaosline . Of that my Hyundai has consumed about 5200 gallons going by the mileage, my driving patterns, and fuel efficiency.

That means this car, at my and my family's...

Flash Fiction Practice
shift

Abraham Kim
gasoline MPG Hyundai electric vehicles gas station iPhone
He estimated his car to have burned around 5,300 gallons of gasoline . This was based on the fact that it got 23 miles per gallon locally and 30 MPG on the highway.

The odometer approached 135,000 miles. The visualization of that number provided some sense of joy. Like no matter...

Abe's Blog
Hungry Car

Abraham Kim
Hyundai miles MPG gallons gasoline
My  Hyundai has about 132,000  miles on it. Given its  MPG around 23 in the city and 30 on the highway and my driving patterns, I estimate that this car has now burned roughly 5500 gallons of gasoline . 

That's a lot of gas! And calculating by the average price...
January 3rd - Obsessed (with Avril Lavigne's Bite Me)
Interesting that you still use 
Last.fm
! 

I discovered that between high school graduation and going to college and I was floored by the concept. SCROBBLING!

haha.

By the way lately i've been noticing i'm no longer bahambug about pop music coming on. I'll be pumping gas into my 
Hyundai
at the gas station -- yes there are still us plebs who use GASOLINE ! -- and a pop song will come one and i'll be dancing a long to it instead of being annoyed that the gas. station doesn't play QUALITY music.

Here's a great line for you from 
Haruki Murakami
:

“I've heard it said that the happiest time in our lives is the period when pop songs really mean something to us, really get to us. ... Pop songs may, after all, be nothing but pop songs. And perhaps our lives are merely decorative, expendable items, a burst of fleeting color and nothing more.”

Now I won't go as far as to say pop music means something to me these days, but i can sure enjoy them now.
Abraham Kim

Abe's Blog
Water -> Blood -> Urine

Abraham Kim
Hyundai coffee blood kidneys reverse-osmosis water
For all our drinking and cooking, we use reverse-osmosis   water . We get this through three three gallon refillable jugs that we take to our little grocery store. Most times we only refill two jugs at a time. Some days it's one. Rarely it's all three. But most times a...
Hold off buying a used car
How much cash did you pay for it? And how many years/miles did it have on it when you took ownership?

I think for some models, people are unhappy with the newer ones because the manufacturer changes something drastically. 

It's kind of like how some people want the older version of tea kettle from like 30 years ago by 
Chantal
rather than a brand new one for much cheaper in the store.

BTW we have similar aged cars... though mine has way more miles.

2011 
Hyundai
 Elantra ~130 K miles
Abraham Kim