And on the other hand
So I can’t decide. My father’s car is fallen apart; he wants to get a new one. And since he’s in his 50s, he wants the mid-life crisis car: a (red) convertible. (Plus a bazoo for the winter, because you can’t drive a convertible in the winter here.)
Part of me is horrified: my father! Who has no grasp of appropriate and in-! Driving around in a convertible!
Part of me is pleased: hey, *I* can drive it in the summer.
March 31st, 2005 at 2:36 pm
I have gone through the exact same thing with my father … although he hasn’t actually gone thorugh with the purchase (got a Mercedes sedan instead so my stepmother can feel rich … but she wants him to get the midlife crisis car soon, for himself, so she can feel rich because he drives it)
March 31st, 2005 at 3:40 pm
My father is still undecided about the purchase. My mother couldn’t care less about the car — or about any car, except that she wishes instead he had decided to really start worrying about what he wears. Or even a little bit start worrying about what he wears. (I cannot describe how little my father cares about his clothing, but I am sure he has some plaid shirts that are older than I am.)
March 31st, 2005 at 10:35 pm
“My father’s car is fallen apart”
Interesting sentence construction, WA….I don’t think I can say that.
April 1st, 2005 at 8:54 am
Well, I’m using “fallen apart” adjectivally, and so it uses the copula — because I could have said “is totally fallen apart” and — well, it still sounds fine to me, if not the standard (has) . . . either that or I’ve played too many “look! weird construction!” games and I no longer recognise which is which.