Look at Me, Look at Me

My niece will turn 16 on this Thursday.  She worked full time all last summer for the town.  She worked over the school year at a yogurt shop.  She also worked all this summer both at the town and the yogurt shop.  What did she do with all that money???  She bought a car!  How impressive!  She bought the vintage VW in the picture above to be exact.  It is funny as she does not have her license but has just been wanting a vintage VW and wouldn't you know someone at church was selling one.  It is from 1978 & only has 41k original miles.  The guy got it and fixed it up but is now working on two other restoration projects so decided to sell this one.  It was too good of a deal to pass up.  My brother-in-law will drive it over the winter and keep it in shape while my niece gets her license.  So by time spring comes and she has he liscense she will be hitting the road in her own car, that she wanted and she paid for in full - wow!  This is the niece that I told you about before.  She writes to me regularly but she has trouble verbally expressing herself.  I think it is so incredibly awesome and amazing that she did this but I did get one chuckle out of it (although I was not laughing at her, I would never do that).  I was talking with my other niece who I have said before  is EXACTLY like me.  We think alike and have an identical sense of humor.  Well I said to that niece, "I think is so terrific your sister got a car!  One point that has me thinking though is that she is a bit socially uncomfortable and yet......" I did not know how to exactly end that sentence delicately when my niece chimed in without missing a beat, "....and yet she got a car that says LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME!"  Exactly!!!  Oh we laughed over that one (although again not at my niece that got the car -- more over my niece that always is thinking what I am thinking!)  Anyways it is just amazing all around.  I love those kids.  I cannot wait to go for a ride in it next summer!