Goodbye to a Beloved Car RIP BESSY 2

I have suffered a truly devestating loss today. Bessy 2 has died. For those of you who don't know Bessy 2 is my car. Yes, I totalled my car today. I am sad. Bessy 2 was the first car I ever bought and paid for myself. My first true car. Sigh. Actually my first car was a 1990 Nissan Stanza hand me down from my sister but I always hated it. That was Bessy 1 and she was more trouble then she was worth. Bessy 2 was a 2000 Silver Saturn SL2 which I bought at the beginning of 2004 for $7500. She was a great bargain as she only had 29,000 miles on her. Here in the South where people regularly put 20-30 thousand miles on their cars every year Bessy 2 was an amazing find. I promptly put another 35000 miles on her, but Bessy 2 stood it well. She rarely complained and always chugged along even when she needed to go to the shop. She never left me stranded on the side of the road (unlike tratorious Bessy 1 who had to be pushed off the road in the end), and always got excellent gas milage no matter how bad she needed a tune up. She died an honorable death at 9:30 am, valiantly saving me from certain death at the expense of herself. She died in a one car accident in which I swerved her off the highway, crosses the grassy medium, crossed the opposite side of the highway, plowed through incoming traffic and slammed into the trees on the far side of the road. In the end that steering I kept meaning to get checked out was the death of her. She completely lost it and I completely lost control of her. By the time she slammed into the giant tree head on, she was fully turned around so it looked like she had original been on that side of the higway. Thankfully both of Bessy 2's airbags deployed keeping me safely inside the car as opposed to splattered on a tree trunk. Not to say anything bad about the trees as they saved me from dropping into the twenty foot decline beyond them. In any case I shall miss Bessy 2. We wish her well in car heavan. Now as I say goodbye to Bessy 2 I send out pictures of her last stand so we can all marvel at how she (with a great deal of help from God) saved me from what I freely admit was, shall we say "questionable" driving skills.