More of my buttons for Jason

April 16, 2009 By

Another installment of my car story will be up tomorrow, but tonight there’s this instead.

A few weeks ago I wrote about receiving gifts or discounts from people and wondered what this generosity could be attributed to.  I’m sticking to my belief that this mystery discount is from treating people well enough that they want to show their appreciation.  My male friends are much more cynical, giving credit to only my anatomy and gender.  As a response to this cynicism I decided to illustrate my interpretation of Mr. Weaver’s comment: “Lots of cleavage works too. :) ”

Yeah, cleavage works, but that isn’t much of a mystery.  The obvious way to male generosity is generally reserved for beer tub nights only, anyway.

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They’re gonna eat me alive.

April 15, 2009 By

Thursday night I set up another appointment at a dealership but canceled to have it moved to Monday.  The prospect of being fresh meat again after a long day at work wasn’t doing it for me.  I had also hoped the weekend would give me more time to research and prepare a bit more.  That plan went flying out the window after I picked up two extra shifts.  Instead, I worked a 30-hour weekend and barely had time to even breathe.  Monday rolled around and I headed off to a second Kia dealership tired and unprepared.

Mileage and dash of "The Taurus"

Mileage and dash of "The Taurus"

It would be a lie to say that the whole encounter was peachy, because it certainly wasn’t.  The Taurus and I only take the back roads, which turned a 20-minute drive to the dealership into a 45-minute drive.  Eventually, we made it there and walked in to find Keenan.  He took me out to the lot to show a few Sportages.  Then I test drove one.  From my first experience at the other Kia dealership I had decided that I needed to actually get in the car even if I wasn’t ready to buy that day.  I did that this time.  The responsiveness of the car was a novelty I had not experienced in a long time, further illustrated by the jerking of my passenger’s body back and forth.  When we pulled back into the dealership Keenan asks, “Well, how’d you like it?”

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The Quest to (figuratively) stop sweatin’ balls

April 14, 2009 By

Anyone that knows me most definitely knows about “The Taurus”.  Some people name their cars “Betty” or “Cherry” or “Big Blue”, but mine is simply “The Taurus”.  Anyone that knows The Taurus also knows that this car is like an A-cup in a push-up bra.  The outside looks good, but when you get down to the real deal the thrill is gone.

I have been trying to purchase (to a varying degree) a new, much more reliable thrill for years upon years.  Literally.  Perhaps one day I might try to catalog all the times I’ve been left stranded by my car, but not today.  Instead, I am going to detail what is has been like trying to buy a car.

First, I have learned that the buyer must know what she wants.  I knew I wanted a smaller SUV.  Figuring out the best make and model was a much larger battle that began getting more serious as summer rapidly approaches.  No A/C is a great motivator for sure.  Car magazines, consumer reports, Kelly Blue Book, TMV and numerous other sources filled my head with talk about MSRP, V6, dealer incentives, numbers, engines, trims as I began my search for a new car…overwhelming would be an understatement.  Before my first visit to a dealer my uncle told me two things, “Jessie, they will want you to buy a car as soon as you walk in the door.  Stick to your guns and do what you feel.”  I don’t remember the second.

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