Twas interesting to see those who care about other people's property and those that don't, you wouldn't have picked 'em until you saw it.
Believe it or not, my favourite PA-28 at the old meat works was a private cross hire. It had all the hall marks of a privately owned plane - sheep skin seat covers, wheel fairings, some extra electronic kit - you could tell it was loved by someone else outside that meat factory.
Last I saw of it while at the above mentioned school was it went offline with fuel tanks leaking and the owner unable to repair it.
I saw it again 20 years later and it is now owned by the above mentioned school but the only character it has left are the memories it evokes from its rego.