My car is exactly eight years old. Lorelai’s Jeep was also eight when it bit the dust. My car isn’t in it’s death throes yet, but I couldn’t figure out whether to keep fixing it, or buy a new one. So I turned to the Gilmores for advice.

• Lorelai & Rory suggested that I get a Delorean or batmobile.
  
• I couldn’t go for a convertible because it would require a tan & bad hair.
  
• Sports cars have an attitude.
  
• Whatever I buy I should drive around & wave & say top of the morning.
  
• A swan shaped float is a possibility.
  
• Vintage cars are cool until you realize that you are sitting in someone else’s filth.
  
• No matching cars or sweatsuits.
  
• Even if you find the exact same model it’s just different. (I actually did look at the exact same model/color of my current car that had less miles on it. It didn’t have the feeling.)

I’m at the point where I can just replace my car as it keeps breaking & eventually I’ll have a new car inside of my old car, like Lorelai. Yes, I even considered a Jeep Wrangler, but they weren’t as fuel efficient. However, that swan shaped float is looking mighty tempting.

I was very proud of myself, when I was faced with riding a bike. Without even thinking I basically quoted Lorelai when she was on her bike, “It’s like riding a bike. They must have the saying for a reason.”

However, this is not exactly the case. I hadn’t ridden a bike in several years. Plus, I wasn’t riding a cool vintage bike. I was riding a mountain bike. It had gears. I am alive & my limbs are intact, but riding a bike is not just like riding a bike. No, I didn’t forget. Apparently the bike forgot that I wasn’t supposed to fall off. I for one am never going to use that saying again.

I was sitting in a diner that resembles Luke’s, looking at my town’s one & only stop light. (There was a ribbon cutting ceremony when it was installed. It reminded me of when Star’s Hollow got its first crosswalk.)

I turned the menu over & noticed there was a story on the back. I am a fan of stories on the back of menus, especially the one from Luke & Lorelai’s first date where the story is about a dog dying. So imagine my surprise when the story focused on how my town was founded by people wanting freedom of oppression & the desire to make their own choice to have whatever kind of milkshakes they wanted. I doubt the historical accuracy of this, but my town does put some crazy stuff in milkshakes like almonds. I can see why they would be persecuted for that. What is the weirdest story that you’ve ever read on the back of a menu?

I watched the movie “Riding the Bus with My Sister” before it was mentioned on The Gilmore Girls. I love to make fun of stuff, & I’m one of the more sarcastic people out there. However, I just didn’t have the heart in me to mock this movie.

Hallmark movies always make me sob. This movie was especially powerful because it is based on a memoir of Rachel Simon taking care of her sister Beth. Rosie O’Donnell did a splendid job acting, which is not something I ever thought I’d say. The movie is definitely worth watching, but be sure to have tissues on hand.