Now, I know that I am a few months short of being seventy years old, ( I spell it out because it looks better than 70) but will I ever get past being so easily duped?
Yesterday was a fun filled day. Lauren had three basketball games & Sindi & I made plans to see the Frost/Nixon movie. During one of the games, I asked Vicki if she had seen the David Stanley Dodge ads on TV? 'No, I haven't'....well, 'they are having a big sale, 60% OFF all trucks & SUV's......and, they have 2008 Chargers @$11.999...can you believe it?' No, she could'nt. 'God, Mother, you should go check that out'........so, the excitement of having a new car starts churning thru my brain. When Sindi arrives, I asked if she wanted to go with me to look & postpone the movie to the 6:30 showing. She was okay with that plan, so, off we go. OMG! what an experience. Of course the dealership parking lot was full, a radio station was there doing their schtick, a table of goodies from the local wal-mart deli, and every finance booth crammed with customers, with a long line waiting their turn to the next available booth.
As we creep thru the lot, a man that I thought was a parking attendant, tells us we can just leave my car in the aisle. Turns out he was our salesman. 'How can I help you ladies today?' 'Well, I came to look at your Chargers for $11,999.' 'Okay, we have three over here' The first one was bright red with tons of hail damage. I don't mean a few pings on the hood.......I mean pings on the sides, top, trunk, everywhere.......the other two didn't have hail damage, but other problems equally as bad, and they were not $11,999...they were $10,000 off. So, they were selling for $22,000 to $28,000. The big deal ad was for a program car that had already been sold. As we were thanking him for his time & making our exit, his supervisor just happened to tell him that they did in fact have 'a couple more program cars in the used car lot that we could get for the advertised price'. Out of curiousity, I wanted to see them. On the long walk to the used car lot, I thought 'what the hell are you doing looking at a big ass muscle car with a HEMI engine, have you completely lost your mind? So, we left and now I've got that out of my system. I'll just keep my old grandma Grand Marqius. We've both got about the same miles on us and are both running just fine. Both need a little fine tuning & adjustments now & then, but, don't we all.
Between car shopping & the 6:30 movie (which was almost as bad as the David Stanley experience), we did have time to go to Chili's and have a Margarita & chips & salsa....so, it was an interesting day. Something totally outside my box.
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