No matter where you are in the world, or what city or town you use the convenience and ease of Carmel for your transport needs, you are most likely surrounded by a group of friends. There are friends of varying degrees, those very close, one could even say dear. Others are more removed, and perhaps only see one facet of our personalities. Of course, there are also the casual acquaintances that show up only intermittently in our lives.

There is a multitude of ways to describe the intimacy felt between companions. There are those that know your deepest, darkest secrets, and those with whom you’ll pre-game and then call Carmel to hit the local nightlife. There are those that you have just met, and still establishing friendly rapport, and those who have been around so long they are engrained in your very existence.

But at what point do friendships turn old? With someone new you can say, “Ah yes, I was hanging out with my new friend Olivia on Saturday night.” Perhaps it has been a few months or years and you’ve become comfortable cohorts saying things like, “My friend Andrew and I were so thankful Carmel was able to pick us up from that obligatory work event. And without delay or surge pricing!” But there is something unique and satisfying about an well-aged friendship. Only then can you say “My Carmel car is here, I’m off early to see my old friend Nick.”

There’s never really a defined transition between new and old. One day it’s just that, an old friend. That is also a privilege that comes with age. In younger years, all your friends are new. Rarely will you hear a someone at 16 say, “my old friend.” That is a title earned by years of ups and downs, through successes and failures, moments of happiness and sadness. Old friends have made it through the storm with you, and at your side through it all. Not all new friends will become old friends. Some friends are lost through the years for this reason or that. It is the very nature of these relationships. But for those that become old friends, it truly is special.

Whether your friendship is new, building, or old, Carmel is the way to get around town with one another. So in years to come the two of you may reminisce about those good ol’ days of traveling by each other’s side and seeing all you have seen together.