If You Want to Destroy My....

At 5:30 a.m. it was 70 degrees outside. There was no doubt that on my drive to work an hour and half later I had the sunroof open and was basking in the glory of Florida-like temperatures. I was singing along to The Spin Doctors when all of sudden, the beautiful morning skies broke into a torrential downpour.

Luckily with the aerodynamics and my cat-like reflexes, I was able to shut the sunroof before any damage was done. Actually, before a drop even made it into the car. Very unlike the situation about five-six years ago.

I had parked my beautiful, beloved Pathfinder outside on a gorgeous day. I had been enjoying a ride home with the windows down and the sunroof open. Being totally engrossed in what I was doing, or just stupid, I closed the windows but forgot about the sunroof.

Well, much like today, beautiful skies turned into heavy rains throughout the night. It wasn't until morning when I saw my soaked leather seats that I realized what I had done.

A load of towels and some blowdrying helped clean up the mess I had caused. But, one thing was unfixable. The six-cd changer that brought so many happy tunes was unworkable. I have come to the conclusion that the water warped the cds. When I went to play one of my favorites, my Weezer cd, expecting to hear the lovely sound of "if you want to destroy my sweater" to come out of the Bose speakers, I simply heard the sounds of a defeated stereo mockingly singing, "if you want to destroy my stereo (leave the sunroof open when it rains)."

I must say, whoever bought that grand Pathfinder got quiet a deal. Not only a wonderful SUV, but six bad-ass cd's included.