Let me try to wind this analogy back to the actual owner of this thread, PhotoGuy. Let's imagine PhotoGuy and some representative HDM on this BB are two 16 year old guys (dorky ones)shooting the sh*t about cars on their front lawns on SSM BB Street.
PhotoGuy: "Man, I'd really like to go out cruising tonight, but all I've got is this 10 year old car in the garage. I'm too sentimentally attached to it to get rid of it but it isn't any fun to drive anymore. Besides it needs too much gas and I don't have the $$"
HDM: " Yeah, I'd like to go out cruising tonight too. I've got this really sweet ride in my garage. I've had it for 10 years and I've been working on it all the time but I've never been able to find a motor for it so I guess it isn't happening."
Meanwhile, their friend I.M. Gettinsum drives by smiling in his not-at-all-perfect but obviously functional car and honks as he heads for Lovers Lane.
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - Mary Oliver
