On special occasions like our 40th wedding anniversary we like to go and buy something special. Who would ever think it to be a new vehicle. We would. The home we live in now we purchased on Mother’s Day. The last home on McRae Pl we purchased on Butch’s birthday. The home on Erie Street we sold on my birthday. So yes, we have a habit of doing this.
Butch drove our Ranger 20 years. Still only 125,000 miles on it and runs like the day we bought it. He always confessed he wanted a bigger truck someday.
As usual we went that day to look at vehicles not necessarily buy one. We test drove a couple of SUVs thinking maybe we wouldn’t get another truck.
There was a Nissan Frontier sitting up in the corner of the Lot. Butch said I don’t want black it will be too hot in summer. I noticed though that it only had 15,000 miles on it. Well after driving a few vehicles I said to salesman we want to drive the Frontier.
Butch has always been the quiet one. We talked as we drove it and what he thought about it. So, we got back to dealership, and I said we will take it.
Even though the Frontier isn’t the bigger truck it’s bigger than the ranger. So, he got his big truck. Still learning things about it as he drives it.
Dealership offered 2500.00 for trade in on Ranger. Forget it. All these years later certainly worth more than that otherwise we would have just given it away ourselves. We talked about keeping it and parking it up north by the kids. However, they wanted to buy it. We would however have given it to them. We raised them right though she said we can pay we have money. So just like our riding lawnmower I have visiting right.
Our ranger has been around so long the memories are many. We drove to Florida with it one summer and Dallas another summer. We visited KCM with the ranger. The ranger has been around for the last three homes. I still remember when Kim was somewhere under five and we were going to trade in our ford super cab the only vehicle she knew. She cried when we left it there and said why daddy. The ranger is sentimental to both of us. Butch said update Chevy next year. We will see.
