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Before Kenny and I moved in together, Vidya would describe our relationship by saying “it’s complicated, and it involves cars.” Which was pretty much true. We had two residences and two vehicles, but we carpooled to the office, and always seemed to have an extremely difficult time remembering whose car we had driven to work or where the heck we had left them. It wasn’t uncommon for us to wake up at my place and find out that we didn’t have any cars there - so then we’d walk to his condo to pick up a car to drive to work.

Things have gotten much simpler since we’ve shared a residence, and we’ve stopped using his car in favor of my hybrid, but we still screw up sometimes. Today Kenny needed to stay late at work for a customer event, so I dropped the car off at his office and took the bus home. And then upon arriving home I realized that when I dropped off my keys in his office, I had forgotten to grab his, so I was locked out of the house. And Vidya, my “keymate,” is in India, so I can’t call her to let me in. Fortunately I live around the corner from Remedy, so I’m chilling with a “Pesto Cream” sandwich and a pot of rooibos and playing Scrabble online with my brother.

On a related note, we’re thinking about donating Kenny’s car since we haven’t been using it. We figure this is probably the only time in our lives that it will be feasible for us to only have one (since we don’t have any little ones to cart around to soccer practice yet ;)). Any ideas on good organizations that will take used cars?