Waiting Isn't Doing Without or Longing

This "waiting" covered a number of years, but it wasn't a situation of doing without or longing.  Before becoming a believer and entering ministry, I was a funeral director.  The firm for which I worked recovered and transported a great many coroner cases for several counties.  Not to be too graphic, but many of the cases were far from pristine circumstances and our company had a black Silverado pickup with a shell for some of the messier situations.  This was the late eighties.  My boss knew he could send me alone to a site and I'd receive help, whereas if he sent a man, he'd have to send two, because they wouldn't be so apt to receive assistance from other responders.  Yes it was sexists and that's just the way it was.  So, frequently I drove the Silverado.  I really enjoyed driving that vehicle.  I'm a General Motors girl at heart, so I've also enjoyed Cadillac driving, yet I digress . . .

When I left that career and was living in town, I had no need for a truck.  Down the road, Mr. B had just purchased a truck the week before he met me, so after we married, I still had no need for a truck.  I wasn't crazy about his little S10, but it served it's purpose.  Actually, driving his S10 on the Interstate felt a lot like driving a go-cart at Nascar, but again, it wasn't my deal and it served it's purpose, until things just started needing repairs . . . the nickel and diming had officially begun.  That's when Mr. B mentioned looking for a new used truck.  I knew I didn't want a Ford, and although everyone loved their Dodge Rams, I could take 'em or leave 'em.  In checking the trucks made by General Motors, there were basically five beyond another S10.  There was the mid-sized Chevy Colorado, the full sized GMC Sierra, the Escalade, the Avalanche, and Chevy is still making the Silverado.

There is no need for a new vehicle, so I did some checking for used trucks.  As you have probably already guessed, there is now a Chevy Silverado in the Land of Goshen.  As I think back to that first one I drove, all those years ago, it certainly wasn't a popular style, it was the way it handled and the dependability that appealed to me.  It had a rugged stability that felt durable and dependable.  They still build them that way!  I didn't spend 25 years wishing I had a Silverado, I had no need for a truck, but I also didn't spend the money on other things.  Thankfully when the time came that the truck we did have began to need repairs, we didn't allow it to become a money pit.  A mechanic was delighted to purchase the S10, and I'm thankful to have not settled for something unnecessary along the way.    

Had I purchased a Silverado back when I first liked the one I drove at work:  A. it would be very old by now, when I actually need one; and B. it would have undoubtedly involved payments, to have a truck for which I had no need, at the time.