{"id":16367,"date":"2022-07-17T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T05:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=16367"},"modified":"2022-06-12T12:45:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T07:15:21","slug":"the-ride-of-a-lifetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2022\/07\/17\/the-ride-of-a-lifetime\/","title":{"rendered":"The ride of a lifetime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The year was 2008. For 7 years, I had been serving as a palliative care owner to second hand two-wheelers. This included manually-powered visits to workshops every other day, to the extent I had called the original one Potential Honda, because it was Kinetic only occasionally! And that’s how I finally decided to take the bold step of buying a brand new two-wheeler for the first time in my life, at double the cost of my mobile. I bring that up because now Activa competes with the likes of Apple and Samsung for the share of wallet! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fast forward to 2013, when D got herself a four wheeler, and a driver, I cajoled her into letting me use both, and stopped using the Activa for office commute. But it still was my go-to vehicle for chores. From about 2016, I became an Uber regular, but the Activa continued its role. I think it was the pandemic, and then the zoning out<\/a> that separated us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And thus, here we are in 2022, and I am wondering how does one say goodbye to a partner who has been with you in your 20s, 30s and 40s! But I have to. Unlike the foreign object<\/a> and these<\/a> guys<\/a>, the maintenance effort is not trivial. It doesn’t help that it needs a fitment certificate later this year! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And thus this thank you post. To a relationship in which I cheated on you with another two-wheeler only once – when they insisted I use a wheelchair when going in for an angioplasty last year. To a relationship in which we got hurt just once – back in 2010 in Austin Town on a rainy night. I remember crying that night, as I picked you up and continued home, because a truckload of things made life seem so unfair. I am older and a little wiser now, and life doesn’t seem very unfair, but I thought of the lifetime we’ve been through and blinked back tears, when I stood gazing at you before I put you up for sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After a decade and a half of togetherness, it’s time to say goodbye. And because I’m fairly sure there will be no other, I call it the ride of a lifetime. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,7],"tags":[4785,6536,536],"class_list":["post-16367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-yesterday","tag-goodbye","tag-honda-activa","tag-memories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16367"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16378,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16367\/revisions\/16378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}