I never thought I'd be grateful for my sticky odometer....

[Glinko]

My father took the 240D out for a drive while I was at work.... I came home today to find the odometer had been bumped up to 199991....

the trip odometer had stuck again...at 99.9 miles...just like it has done a dozen times in the past.

My - APATHETIC JERK OF A - father had taken the car to Kingston to return some movies and hadn't remembered (read: didn't give a ****) that I'd said to him just a day before "The Mercedes is about to roll over 200K...I'd rather that you not drive it, and if you have to..make sure you don't drive more than 50 miles round trip."

The trip to Kingston and back is about 90 miles in total.

So, long story short, my quirky odometer turned out to be a blessing in disguise.

Tomorrow when I leave the house, I am taking ALL of the Mercedes' keys with me, and not telling my father That way he'll be stuck driving the box truck if he needs to get somewhere.