3 thoughts on “#1537 Features”
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Cyfrin
As someone who lives in a frozen wasteland and has legs for days, all I want in a car is seat warmers and enough space for me to fit.
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Llywenna
Bun warmers, heated steering wheels and an electric windshield defroster should be mandatory safety equipment on all vehicles sold here, with a built in covered port to plug an extension cord into so you can turn them on before you go out of the house.
Llywenna
We rented a car last week to go to the city. All I want for xmas is twenty minutes alone with whoever thought putting touch screens in a car that you have to lean waaayyy over to reach and go through five menus to change the radio was a good idea…and a big stick…and another half hour with whoever thought using a knob for a gearshift was in the slightest bit safe.
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4 thoughts on “#1536 Fresh”
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VallariaGreen
My favorite was when I (in my early 30’s), with my fiancé (also early 30’s), went to look at a car and NO EMPLOYEE TALKED TO US. Like they went straight over to my mum (60’s, drove us) and asked what SHE was looking for. When she pointed out we needed the car, they got this sour, disappointed look like somehow we weren’t capable of buying a car? Despite being adults? Car salesmen either A: dismiss you because of age/gender/race/perceived socioeconomic status, or B: shower you with compliments because of the same.
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Llywenna
We were looking for a particular type of car, a convertible, and dropped into a car dealers when we were in the city to look at them and also some larger cars and SUV’s. We weren’t dressed formally, jeans and t-shirts and hubby had his usual leather vest and hat on, and the salesman kept steering us back to the smallest cheapest cars on the lot every time we looked at something else. Hubby was getting pissed and was about tell him that between us we made probably five times what he did, or more, and could afford anything we wanted, but we decided to take one of their convertibles for a test drive…the guy insisted on coming with us, like we were going to steal it…his mistake, we tore it to shreds in front of him all the way “who designed this ?” “why can’t you put anything in the trunk with the top down ?” ‘It drives like a wheelbarrow in mud”, etc. We ended up buying a different one we really liked then drove it through the lot and told that salesman in front of his customers that if he’d just sold us what we wanted instead of trying to make us feel like we couldn’t afford it he could have made a nice commission but now we’d be telling everyone we knew not to buy anything there.
Llywenna
You can’t even play one saleman against another around here because they’re all related and the same guy owns half the dealerships.
The only thing we found that worked was bringing in an ad printed from a city a couple of provinces over where the cars were made, pointing out that they wanted almost five thousand dollars less for the exact same model at the dealer’s there, let alone off the factory lot, and that it wouldn’t cost us nearly half of that to fly up and drive home, even counting hotels, gas and meals, and we wouldn’t pay their ridiculous fifteen hundred dollar ‘delivery fee’ picking it up there. The sales manager was so completely shocked that anyone would go out of town to buy anything that he matched the price, provided we didn’t tell anyone he had…but of course we told everyone we could 🙂Clay Campbell
I was part of a cross city scavenger hunt and one of the things we had to get was business card from a car dealership.
We figured a quick run in grabb the card at the front desk and then get out.
Well that just worked for the first two then they took the the cards away. and we had to get a card from one of the dealers, who wouldn’t give it until after they gave their car speil.Leave a Reply
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2 thoughts on “#1534 Colorful”
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Tourma
For the kind of money they want for red, you could get a wrap.
“What is your car?”
“Its the 2005 Corolla that looks like a metallic snake.”I’m considering a pearlessent one for my next car.
Llywenna
Everything looks the same and it’s all the same colours, we had a red sportscar because…reasons…and it was easy to find in a parking lot even without beeping the doorlocks. neither one of us has a vehicke right now and it’s worked well for the past year so there’s no real need to change that, not at today’s prices.
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One thought on “#1533 Dream Car”
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Ale-Eight-One Ohmu
A long lasting car? One you won’t have to replace after five or six years? Not contributing to a consumerist culture? That’s Un American (according to Wall Street)!
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5 thoughts on “#1532 It’s Time”
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Tourma
…Sounds like one of my Dad’s cars. He has owned, or has known someone who owned every car made before 1989 and every single one of them was a piece of junk.
Hope you’re new one is not like that. ^_^
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SurlyQueen
This one was a 2000 and it’s been very reliable, but at 25 years old, it’s hard to justify thousands of dollars worth of repairs. But I definitely got my money’s worth out of it and I’ll miss the old reliable Elder Car.
Llywenna
I really liked our last car but it just got too old to keep fixing and the cost of repairs was getting to be more than a car payment, so we did the math and decided that since we don’t commute anymore and rarely go anywhere, and counting a car pay ment for a new one plus insurance, registration, gas, maintenance, winter tires, etc. it was a lot cheaper to take taxis at $6.50 a trip a few times per week and rent a car for a day or two if we really needed to out of town, a LOT cheaper. If we lived nearer the stores the walk would do us good, but it’s just far enough not to want to lug grocery bags down a long hill in the winter, or summer and there’s no buses here so taxis it is, the drivers need to eat too 🙂
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SurlyQueen
Yeah, that’s what happened here too. I just couldn’t justify putting more money into the car because the repair costs were adding up and and coming too frequently. But, given where we live and keeping up with Xena’s stuff outside of school going down to one car wasn’t feasible for us (and our grocery store is definitely too far away for me to walk!).
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Llywenna
It was fifteen years old and if we had a garage it would probably have lasted longer but the salt on the roads and sitting in the driveway all year round didn’t do it any good and the frame finally fell apart 🙁 it happened so fast, it passed the safety check with no problems and the garage said we should get years more out of it, then six months later it rusted through in at least four places and that was that. We’d just had it repainted the year before too and the body shop said it was in great shape.
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One thought on “#1531 Second Wind”
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Llywenna
The internet has brought us instant international gossip with people we don’t know, this may or may not be a ‘good thing’ but it does kill time 🙂
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2 thoughts on “#1530 Trying Times”
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Ale-Eight-One Ohmu
No wonder ignorance is bliss.
Llywenna
Your brain should have an automatic pause switch that trips when you’re warm and comfy, whether in a bath or trying to go to sleep or lying in the sun or just sitting on the couch with a hot chocolate. “Not listening, be quiet or go away”, any kind of chocolate should trip it instantly 🙂
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3 thoughts on “#1529 Weather”
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Llywenna
It depends on the storm, blizzards sound the nicest but you have to deal with the snow afterward and the power often goes out.
Thunderstorms are my favourite, we get them a lot around here, sometimes the wind knocks the power out too but it’s not as cold, it’s just the animals that have problems with them. The dog we have now doesn’t bat an eye and usually sleeps through them but one of the others we had before tried to crawl under the carpet…literally 🙁daemongirl
I’m glad you’re all okay. I know some regions experienced destruction and fatalities. We don’t experience tornadoes nearly as much as your part of the country, but Maryland still gets them *way* more than Massachusetts. It’s been years and I still find it startling and upsetting. (Not to mention spring is too early this year – hope that’s not a bad sign!)
Llywenna
So far Spring is right on schedule, until someone rewrites the schedule and changes or ignores the old records…again.
That’s the problem with having lived through a lot of winters, you had to live through them but you also remember it when someone tells you what they were like who weren’t there.
We had a ‘good’ winter this year, I’ve seen worse and I’ve seen better but this one was pretty good…so far. There’s lots of time for the customary ‘April Fool’s storm’ yet, one of the worst blizzards I’ve ever seen was on my sister’s birthday in early April, the Spring ones drop a lot more heavy wet snow because there’s more moisture in the air and it isn’t as cold and that causes a lot more damage if the buds and leaves are out and it has something to stick to, storms knock over more trees in the spring and summer than the fall and winter.Leave a Reply
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