For months now, we’ve barely used our beloved red car. At first, the car’s electrical system seems to be malfunctioning because we’d often find the battery drained of electricity even though it’s just a year old. Because of that, the car refused to start several times. So we didn’t use our red car for a long time. Good thing we have my dad’s Revo with us. After a few weeks, I took pity on her. Ramil and I took her batteries and brought it to a battery shop to have it charged. After that, the red car started without any hassle. What we resorted to doing is to remove the battery poles after every use of the car. Ramil and I would get weird looks everytime we’d open the hood, haha!

The strategy worked well unfortunately, the brakes started giving us problems last week. With the terrain here in the hills of Antipolo, a close-to-giving-out pair of brakes is not an option. We again decided to let her rest for some time because we don’t have the budget to get the car parts necessary to replace her brakes. Until now, she sits on the garage unused. I’m really anxious to do something about her. I’ve actually considered selling her. With the rising price of gasoline and her high cost of maintenance, it seems to be the reasonable thing to do. We’ll see, we get sentimental whenever we think of parting with her. She’s been with us through a lot of things and we have a lot of memories together. But she seems to be telling us that she wants a retirement already. Hopefully, we get to decide soon.