Number 10,000

[daveinspain]

This is so exciting, like when I watched the speedometer of my brother's 64 Oldsmobile Delta 88 turn from 99,999.9 to 100,000 miles. There were six or seven of us in the car, we were riding around the Boston area watching the odometer. When it turned to 100,000 we pulled over to the side of the road, stopped the car, spray painted a big rectangular box on the roadside around the car and wrote 100,000 miles… We opened some Champagne bottles and were spraying it around and having a great time!! That's when the patrol car pulled up behind us. Sort of put a damper on the moment. We were all under age. My brother, who was driving was 18 years old, as were most of the rest of the crew. The policeman asked each one of us our names and age. I was the last one he ask. When I told him my name and I was 14 years old he almost fell over. I'll never forget that day… In the end he was pretty cool about the situation and could see we were just out having fun and enjoying the moment. We weren't drunk or drinking and driving. No ticket was issued. All he did was make us clean the paint of the roadway, took away the Champagne and sent us home. Those were the good old days.

 

So this is number 10,000… No Champagne or spray paint. Just a big thanks to all for putting up with me, Dave in Spain

[btoth76]

Congratulations, Dave!

 

I hope, I won't miss Your 20.000th post either.

 

Best wishes... Bence

[kidblast]

we're working on the parade Dave, we'll let ya know!

[deeman]

Ha, great odometer story! Love it.

 

With the digital odometers of today, it just isn't as fun to watch the numbers roll over.

[merciful-evans]

And now ya dont wanna spoil it by going for 10,001 :)

[Retired]

Congrats Dave, that's a mile stone I know. I'll be happy to hit 3,000 posts. Lol. Still can't even imagine how long it takes for 10,000.

[SteveFord]

That is one heck of a lot of posting and great story about the odometer hitting 100,000.

[daveinspain]

Just sort of been a steady poster on and off since 2007… Never had any goals in mind, the post just accumulate. Glad you guys liked the odometer story. I relived the day writing about it...