Here I’m standing in front of my husband’s car back in Ukraine:
I swear, the car used to look very chic to me. This is all taking place in a forest where our parents’ Research Institute had built (back in USSR) really comfortable and pretty little houses for people to stay in during the summer. There was a river with a very good beach, and one could pick tons of mushrooms in the forest. This is where we came for our honeymoon back in 1995 but this photo is from a little later.
Please observe the summer dress I’m wearing. My sister loved that dress and always tried to sneak it away from me. One day, I was coming home when I saw her running around in it, like it were hers, or something! I was mortally offended.
Since then, I developed a habit of stealing her things and then asking her, in all innocence, “Oh, so you didn’t mean to give it to me as a gift? I could have sworn you did.”
This year she gave me a BEAUTIFUL Michael Kors dress for New Year’s and I’m thinking it’s time to let go of the old grudge I’ve been holding over this sundress from the 1990s.
P.S. And if you think I hold grudges for too long, just ask her about half a pickled apple from back in the frikking eighties that I ate and that was supposed to be hers.
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I hate when I submit a comment before reading it twice and then find lots of typos! Please don’t post the last one! I’ll send you another one without typos!
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That’s a Lada Samara from the 90s, isn’t it! In 92 or 93, my dad was getting a new car. I wanted him to get a Samara so bad, but he ended up getting a Opel Kadett, which turned out to be a hell of a car!
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Lada is considered to be the worst car on the planet (which only shows how little people know, given that other Soviet cars were a lot worse!)
I hope to see you tomorrow at the talk! 🙂
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“Lada is considered to be the worst car on the planet”
one word: Trabant
you do not know fear unless you’ve been in the passenger seat of a trabant in heavy trafic in heavy rain with lots of massive trucks on every side trying to get around you… while you’re stuck in a…. Trabant, the car that will make you want to rethink almost every life choice you’d made up until that point.
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Looked up Trabant and it looks very much like the Zaporozhets. The Zaporozhets was this horrible little thing that made an infernal noise the entire time when the engine was being run. I’m convinced it was given the proud name of Zaporozhets to stoke anti-Ukrainian feelings in people.
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Here it is, the little freak: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaporozhets
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