Plain White Wrapper

Well, we picked up this plain white wrapper last night. S had been leaning towards a Toyota Supra or a Honda Prelude, but good ones are hard to find, especially in our budget. So I did a search for police cars--as in white, Ford Crown Vic's that used to be police cars--and we found a very economical one with the mileage neighborhood we were shooting for and we test drove it and liked it and paid cash for it and even got the seller to come down a couple hundred bucks!

My dad used to drive one. Mudflap has one. My old academy classmate Love got a really nice one. And now me and S have one! Perfect. Truth be told, I've always kind of wanted one. From one of my favorite movies of all time, The Blues Brothers:

JAKE
Car's got a lot of pick up.

ELWOOD
It's got a cop motor, a four hundred and forty-cubic-inch plant. Cop springs. Cop shocks. Cop suspension. Cop tires. It was a model made before catalytic converters, so it runs good on regular gas. What do you say? Is it the new Bluesmobile or what?

JAKE
Fix the cigarette lighter.

It even has the spotlight on it! You can't roll down the windows in back if you're sitting back there--the driver has to do it. S drove it last night when he went on his ride-along with one of the police agencies he's interviewing with. Today I'm driving it and I just wish I could relax and enjoy it but I can't b/c we still need to figure out what the hell to do with Charlie Murphy, who is still resting in limbo at the mechanic's. We got the plain white wrapper for so much under our original budget that S is considering still fixing Charlie--but I'm thinking that'll be so much more trouble than it's worth. For starters, we've got nowhere to keep him since we only have 2 assigned parking spots at our townhome. Well, we've got to decide soon, like this weekend.