Had to get car it's 105,000 mile maintenance

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.....

You have a Prius, with 105,000 miles on it??????

What kind of crazy-ass cross country driving are you doing when I'm not looking? My car is a 97 Ford escort, ten years old, and I only just broke 100,000.

yup, it's a 2002 with 104,961 miles on it. I purchased it in 2004 with 37,000 miles. Believe it or not, I've never taken the car farther than Santa Maria, Joshua Tree, and San Diego. I also offer to drive all the time. Between the rock-star parking, and a crazy ass childhood fear, ya, I like to be designated driver.

Holy crap you drive a lot.

I drive 45ish miles a day round trip for work commute alone. Often that is 6 days a week. Probably not as much as ND drives... but... now you know why I wanted a hybrid!

You drive a lot in town. You put sixty thousand miles on it in three years!

That's insane. You crazy man.

and I drive the speed limit (well... most of the time).

Probably not as much as ND drives... but... now you know why I wanted a hybrid!

ND drives a lot, but spreads it out over multiple cars.

Or, has been able to do so for several years now, anway. I suspect the cars he had when he was younger got a lot more miles put on them in bulk, but he was also driving to Washington and back during that time.

I make up for you guys. I think it ( Now) takes me 8 or 9 months to drive 3000 miles.

Sean, Drew easily averages over 20,000 miles a year in the Escape, but yeah--he does tend to switch into a new car every couple of years. I put about 17,000/year on my Prius and plan to drive it until it falls apart.

ION, I have an awesome idea for the blog I'm writing for Victor's online literary magazine and have done all of the research I needed to do to prepare...and now I have to actually write it. Must. Focus. It was due last night. Did I mention that?

you are writing in the wrong place, Missy. - go do your fun work!