Pleasing Allah through Cars and Coffee.
My son and I enjoy cars.
He might be a bit more obsessed than I am. Probably because he doesn’t have to worry about costs and maintenance like his dad does.
It is a great way for us to bond together in our shared hobby, and we went to our first cars and coffee yesterday. We had a great time, and we saw some cars we were not expecting to see in our small town:
1. Nissan R34 GTR
3. Lotus Esprit
These were probably the highlights of what we saw, but there were tons of Porsches, some GTIs, and some really old classic cars.
There was even a Civic with his exhaust coming out of his engine bay, and he had to skurry on home since it started raining and he had no engine cover for his car 😆.
We had to get up early at 8AM, and it was not something I was initially looking forward to do. I had just come off working 8 straight days of the graveyard shift (1am-9am), and I needed this Saturday to re-calibrate my body back to normal.
Of course that did not happen, but the second part of this event made things much more bearable.
Coffee!
I don’t normally drink coffee (maybe once a week), but when I do, it really kicks in and does it’s job. It is a medicine for me, and not just a social, “Look at me, I’m cool and important and spend $8 on coffee,” type of experience.
I use my car for those types of experiences😁.
All jokes aside, I mainly did it for bonding with my son. To create memories that he will have later on in life. To make him one day also want to make similar memories with his own kids.
To fulfill the ties of kinship.
Initially we were going to go to Tuner Evo in Philly next weekend, but I had some work issues that came up and couldn’t go. Plus we decided that Tuner Evo was not as family friendly because of the excessive “car girls” that events like that are known for having and showing off their "engine bay."
That would have been a whole weekend since Philly is about 8 hours away, but we were able to stay local and have just as much fun. Not only did I save money, but we were able to follow the Cars and Coffee with some high-revving mountain driving that was quite satisfying.
Most importantly, we found a way to have fun and to also please Allah subhana wata'aalah by avoiding the questionable Tuner Evo spectacle.
And fun doesn’t always have to be a spectacle.
Sometimes fun can just be peace in your heart.