Please help me justify buying a Boxster

[MikeMcMo]

Hi all,

Thanks for the wise guidance, everyone! It’s unanimous: don’t hide it, don’t over-think it, and don’t wait any longer.

The hiding of the car would be done partly out of convenience- no room out front. I’ll be renting garage space from a friend on the corner. The ambivalence of indulging in an expensive toy in a morally complicated world is fading away, as I reflect on the fun I’ve had in my test drives. I’m *that* shallow, it turns out.

I didn’t mention in my original post that I work from home and don’t need a commuter car, but I do have to get out 3 or 4 times a week for one thing or another. I think it is ridiculously impractical for me to be driving a big minivan around all alone to do errands, when a Boxster would be muuuuuuch more practical.

Life is short. My mother never wanted anything more than to paint, and always worked at it, but never had the chunks of time she wanted, interrupted first by pregnancy, later jobs, then caring for an older husband, and so on. Right when she was finally getting the time she wanted, she had a massive stroke. It almost killed her, but she has had a miraculous recovery and has regained almost everything- except the use of her painting hand.

Thanks also for the clips. Ed Helms is the Lawrence Olivier of Cringe Theatre.

It has been my style to overthink things, which serves me well in my work, as long as I do a good job editing out the fluff before deadline. The results are usually good, and today I got the thumbs up from the mechanic performing the PPI, who told me he’d buy it himself if he could.

At one point in looking over your responses it occurred to me to do a search in the forum on the term “permagrin.” Just as I suspected: too many results to count.

I bounced some ideas off my wife while I rubbed her feet, which usually puts her in a state of hypnosis. She said, “Is this your menopause car?” She agreed to the concept of a Boxster if I got vanity plates that read “MENOPAUSE.” That’s too many letters- maybe I could spread it across two plates, a base model and an S.

Vanity plate will read something like “MWMWMWM” which is impossible to read well enough to report, and which, if I’m lucky, might even trick the red light cameras.

I bought two Arctic Silver Boxsters over the weekend, but only got a PPI on one of them. The first will arrive in a few days (see picture) and I will pick up the second one next week.

Thanks, all, for your guidance.