Adventures in Car Buying Part 1

[kybearfuzz]

Okay, following some of the advice in the "Buying a Car for Dummies" book, I went to the Toyota car dealer around 3 PM, giving me three hours to hammer out a potential deal with Dan, the cute 20-something salesman, who's age is also recommended by the book and by several LJ'ers.

Dan and I take the blue Corolla for another spin, this time a longer drive in the rain on the highway. I liked the handling and is seems to be a really good fit for me. So with my folder of information in hand, I strode confidently into the sales cubicle with Dan, thinking that he was in for the fight of his young life. I noted that the MSRP for the car was LESS than the Edmunds printout for the car, so I thought this would be easy, that God had smiled at me and given me a break in the car buying process.

While Dan was getting some info off the car, I was looking at my paperwork as my eyes grew in horror as the paperwork that gave me such a great deal was for a HONDA!!!!

F%@#!!! F%@#!!! F%@#!!!

I had grabbed the wrong folder in leaving the house. Thinking that a man doesn't enter a gunfight with a sword, I frantically looked into my cell phone's messages for someone to save me. Luckily, Derek (_decibel_) responded to my quick "Call Me" text message.

Derek probably thought I was a complete idiot when he called back, with me making incoherent conversation like Courtney Love doing a drunk call to her dealer. So I told Dan that my buddy Derek had a flat in Florence and no money to pay the tow truck. I wanted to continue that fantasy Derek was being held hostage by a burly daddy bear who reeked of gym sweat and wanted Derek to work it off in sexual favors. I was going to be the hero that either had the money or would let the partnered Derek off the hook by performing the said sexual favors with the daddy bear. I figured Dan didn't need to be subjected to my crazed gay-smut imagination, so I let him off at the towing part. Dan seemed bewildered, but my guess is that he had been the victim of a phone call rescue before.

So after calling Derek back, letting him know of my obvious brain fart, and thanking him for the save, I drove back home and thought that my first step towards car buying was a bust. Thankfully I am off all week and can do a bit more searching.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Funny! Don't feel bad - it was an honest mistake. :)

[fjdbear.livejournal.com]

The Honda thing is an omen.

[cincycub.livejournal.com]

oops, that anonymous comment was me :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_decibel_/]

OH that was just too cha cha for words!!!!!

I'm glad that I could save ya on that... but if the daddybear looked like Jack Radcliffe, I would have to tell you to get the hell outta here and let me work it off!!!!!!

[bookish-cub.livejournal.com]

That sounds like something that I would do.

[ricksf.livejournal.com]

Too funny! I'd be laughing if I'd not done similar things.

Who knows, this might work to your advantage when you return to the Toyota dealership.

[mikiedoggie.livejournal.com]

Oh, crap! sorry to hear your first escapade didn't turn out so well. But yeah, better to go in fully prepared for battle than not have the info you need.

And find out if you can get that car dealer guy to "sweeten the deal" if he's so cute.

[queensheba.livejournal.com]

Don't feel bad; I had two brain-fart moments this morning. First I tried to pick up a hot stoneware pie plate fresh from the 450-degree oven with my bare hands. Then I filled the coffee pot up and turned it on, and couldn't figure out why no coffee was coming out - um, because all the water was still in the pot and not poured into the brewing part!!!