today started early. i had to wake up at 9am on my day off! i know, it's tragic.

Today is also Mary's day off and right now Angel has EVERY day off, so the three of us ran about car shopping for Mary's new car. we went here and there and everywhere.

after one seriously insulting asshole told her that since she's a 20 year old waitress they can only sell her a scary rusted piece of junk that had obviously been in a serious accident we went back to the place she'd bought her first car, the Cavalier. the one she'd paid early and gotten a few payments ahead on until the wreck prompted the insurance company to pay it off early. we'd gotten another really hot tip but that place was twenty minutes away and we just wanted to check out the closest one first.

What she was looking for:
small
sporty
two doors
automatic
98 to now
under 100,000 miles

Preferences:
Eclipse
Cougar
Corvette
anything with only two seats
anything convertible

she ran into a friend there after talking to one sales man so we jumped salesmen to her friend. then, we test drove the car he was trying to get her into after he heard about her accident. it was still smallish but it had four doors and a few problems. we got back and she told him it was *not* her dream car. he asked what was. she pointed to the silver T-top Firebird. he said ok and gave her the keys.

we test drove that one and when we got back he told her yes and listed the terms. we told him the concerns and what we wanted fixed before we'd consider it. he promised to get the ball rolling on taking care of them all. we explained that we were excited but that we wanted to take a step back and discuss it over lunch so we went to Chili's and ate lunch.

we discussed it and she was excited and wanted to still run past the other place but was really leaning towards the Firebird.

then we went to Mr Bill's Motors and talked to Billy. he was very nice when we walked in and i got a whiff of 'used car salesman' but nothing weird at first. then he got a bit pushy and condescending - but only a bit. this is Texas, you get used to that. we walked the lot and she picked out a Cougar. he got the key for the test drive and told her to make sure that if anyone else test drives it we don't do it where they can see it. (weird) Mary pulls out, we leave.

As we pull away, the car jerks and we blow that off as Mary tells us she gets a bad vibe off the whole lot and especially Billy. we are driving to the bank to get the final $100 for the $1,000 down she promised either place and notice that the car is still jerking hard when you accelerate from a stop. Mary is now freaked out and refuses to drive anymore so we grab the money and Angel drives it all the way back to the lot.

by now we are all pretty angry as the jerking is obviously the transmission dropping and catching gears on the shifts. basically, the tranny is going. and they let someone test drive this car.

when we get back, Mary and i go in to tell him that it didn't work and Angel parks the car. he walks in, throws the keys on the desk and says, "let's GO. NOW." and walks out. Mary runs out behind him as the Billy is yelling questions. i pause in the doorway, turn, and tell him that there is nothing on his lot we want to see after that test drive because Mary was very distressed over the experience and i turn to see them almost all the way into Angel's car so i duck out the door with Billy chasing me while making a snarky comment that he couldn't reach any of the references anyways as all the numbers were disconnected (bullshit - we've called every one today!), dive into the front seat, and we have the car past him just before he finishes pulling the Cougar out to block us in.

she signed on the Firebird. she picks it up on Monday.

0 girls wanted to be big PM Dawn fans

confessed on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2003