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Hit 50,000 miles on my old Toyota and started thinking about stuff differently
I was driving home from work last Tuesday and saw the odometer roll over to 50,000 miles. It's a 2010 Corolla so that's not a ton of miles for a car that old, but it got me wondering how many of those miles were me just going to the same places. My commute is only 8 miles each way, so that means over half the miles are from random trips I barely remember. It made me think about all the little patterns we fall into without noticing. In my experience, most people don't track their movement closely, but the numbers can tell a weird story about your life. Has anyone else hit a random milestone like that and had it make you question your daily routines?
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noahward19d ago
That 8 mile commute adds up way faster than people realize. 160 miles a week just for work, that's about 8,320 miles a year right there. So over 14 years you're looking at over 100,000 miles just on that one stretch of road. Here's what I'm wondering though - when you look back at those random trips, do you remember any of them vividly or are they all just a blur? Like is there one random Tuesday night drive to get tacos that sticks out more than a vacation you took?
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That Corolla hitting 50k is like looking at a photo album you didn't know you had. I did the same thing with my old F-150 when it rolled over 120k miles and realized 40k of those were from one decade of driving to the same diner every Saturday morning for breakfast. Half the time I don't even remember ordering, but the odometer sure does.
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