Car shopping this weekend

[Rachel Bray]

Well.....what strange and wonderful times we live in...

Did you know that even though I have a rather high IQ 
(unless it's changed since taking the test in High School) 
and I have a very good paying job AND I have over $3,000 in 
cash to put down on car, that I'm a total moron who doesn't 
know what she wants or how to go about getting it?  Or so 
said the one car dealer I went to this past weekend.  I 
about popped him in the nose and slapped him silly.  But 
instead I walked back to my car and left without another 
word.

Anyway....I test drove a Jetta (in love with it), a Dodge 
Ram, a PT Cruiser (just for fun), a Saturn thingy-a-bob, 
two different Camrys and a Land Rover.  I went back at the 
end of the day to look at the Jetta again and decided to 
sleep on it.  I get home and there are 8 messages waiting 
for me on my voice mail.  One from a lawyer wanting to 
represent me (which I'm getting REALLY sick of 
getting....I'm not suing anyone!  It's called AN ACCIDENT!) 
and the rest were from my mother (one message saying in 
this Doomsday voice "I hope you didn't buy a car today!") 
and the guy who has my Prizm.

It can be fixed.  No frame damage was done.  YAY!  He has 
to order two new doors, work on the back fender area and 
repaint the whole thing.  I'm SOOOOOOO happy.  I was not 
looking forward to a car payment.  I've been car payment 
free now for almost 4 years and I would like to keep it 
that way for at least another one (or two).  He said that 
after he repairs the doors and such it should still come 
under $1500 total so I'll have an AWESOME Christmas bonus 
with the leftover insurance money.  Yay.

But that Ford dealer mentioned above....I pray some day a 
woman accidentally rolls over him during a test drive.  
What a jerk.

Rachel Bray
The Ohio State University
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