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February 26, 2008
222222
I figured that Chris would really appreciate this post. Or Ryan or Jacob or Adam or any of my other stats-oriented friends. My car turned a pretty rare milestone on my way back from PSCG men's group tonight at Otto's: the big 222,222! I mean, sure, it's cool to see a string of zeroes when your car's odometer turns a 10,000 multiple, but how much cooler is it to see six identical digits on the odometer? I'm thinking way cooler, just because of how rare it is. Especially with how poorly so many American cars were made during the 80s and early 90s, I'd assume that perhaps the majority of American people have been deprived of the simple pleasure of even getting one chance to see their car's odometer reach the first of these milestones at 111,111. And then how much rarer is it to see a string of six crooked numbers on your dashboard like that? I tell you what, I consider myself pretty lucky! ;-) Ever since I got back from my trip to Cornell, I knew that it'd happen one of these days when I was just driving around State College, so I've been keeping a close eye on it and my camera handy, haha. I was ready to pull off into some parking lot if necessary to park and take the picture, but I managed to get all the way back home without it flipping to 222,223, which would've totally ruined the moment. (And Walter, is this speed better for you than my last mileage pic? Haha.) If I can get my car up to 230,000 (at my current mileage rate, that'd probably happen sometime in spring 2009), that'll be pretty cool too. 234,567 would be pretty sweet also (late 2009-early 2010?). It just won't be able to top the coolness of 222,222!
Posted by Jared at February 26, 2008 11:59 PM
Comments
Congratulations! You've set the bar pretty high, I must say.
Posted by: Chris at February 27, 2008 07:42 AM
the only thing cooler is if it had turned to 222222 on 2/22
Posted by: MERAmanuensis at March 3, 2008 10:12 AM
"Two"che, Mom, "two"che.
Posted by: Jared at March 3, 2008 02:13 PM