After what seems like days of staying inside due to eating blowing dirt every time you exit your car, home, or office, I am playing catch up today. There is the same piddling around the house that everyone else does. Laundry, load and empty the dishwasher, try to eliminate piles that have accumulated throughout the last week or so -- it all seems neverending. I feel like I spend most of my time spinning my wheels.
Speaking of wheels, I am a car girl. I like cars. All cars -- new, old, souped up, sporty, luxurious -- not too picky. Now gadgets are my weakness. I do love me some car gadgets. There are a few things that are required in my cars. Many cup holders, mandatory. I need storage, lots of it. Good lighting, inside the car as well as out. The headlights can't be dinky. I can drive a standard transmission, but is that really necessary anymore? I will if I have to, but I prefer to hold my Coca-Cola with that hand. Then they started putting more power ports in the cars. Great when I had kids who had a tech device that needed charging, but the 12-volt chargers aren't too speedy. The first car I owned that had a 110 volt plug-in put me over the moon. Didn't use it too often, but hey, if I needed it, it was there. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Once, totally by accident, I ended up with a car that had heated seats. Oh. My. Gosh. Now I can't live without them. Ridiculous! Then they added air conditioning to those same seats. I'm totally spoiled. And I'm not even going to talk about my tech things. You would roll your eyes. I swear. Navigation, satellite radio, MP3 and USB plugs, just tech me out to the N'th degree.
Maybe you figured out I am shopping for a car. No hurry. I really like the one I have, and I think I have owned it longer than almost any other car in my life. But it has no rattles, no problems -- it's a dream. And it is for sale... just saying. 2010 Lexus GX 460 loaded, new tires, 54K miles. Check the blue book and give me a call if you want to look at it.
I happen to carry a family gene that gravitates me to cars, and a few of the new ones are catching my eye. Plus, some new gadgets have come out in the last 5 years.
I might need them.
The problem lies in the shopping for the new car. Wouldn't you rather have a root canal? As soon as someone simplifies this process, makes it more pleasant, and keeps me from overpaying for a car, please share that information. I don't like to consolidate a group of workers and criticize them on the whole, but I can definitely say, I have had more painful experiences that were a waste of time than I have had smooth and reasonable ones when buying cars. Gosh, it can be irritating.
It seems like a salesperson has nothing to do all day but sell me a car. I, on the other hand, do not want to spend all day buying a car. You can't talk me into it. You have what I am looking for, or you don't. So when I finally find what I am looking for, the fun begins. I got into an argument with a guy in Dallas yesterday over insurance and why he couldn't sell me this car without a change to my insurance card. The story is too long to tell, but he made the mistake of saying "we are required by law..." Oops. You want to talk about laws? Pretty sure I told you I worked in a law office. I repeated my question and asked to speak to his supervisor. The supervisor, new car sales manager for the whole dealership says, "yes, Texas state law requires..." So I said that I needed to see that statute, and please note the article and section where I can read that for myself. Guess what! He didn't know the exact statute, and he wasn't willing to check.... I know, shocking. Realizing how clueless they all were, I was more polite than I should have been, and I ended this conversation.
This was after over an hour on the phone.
Good. Bye.
Heck, it's nearly May. Might as well wait and see what 2015 has to offer.
They usually come out in the fall...
I need to go rotate that laundry.
