I'll give you the end of the story first: I drove home tonight frightened that I, like my father had done 25 years ago, would total a new car on the drive home from the dealership. I can't print what was said when the car arrived on a flatbed tow truck, but let's just say my mother wasn't particularly concerned with my father's well-being at that moment.
Anyway, with that as preface, we have purchased a car. It's a 2006 Accord, with under 26,000 miles on it. About the only fault with it is that it has an automatic transmission instead of a manual. We both enjoy driving stick-shift, and so this is rather disappointing, but the car is really quite nice in every way, and we didn't want to wear ourselves out searching (potentially in vain) for a manual Accord.
Even so, we're pretty exhausted. We've spent much of the past two days car shopping, hopping from one dealer to the next, and dealing with all manner of bad salesmen. From the one who insisted that we could get a car seat into a 2-door coupe, to the one who thought we'd spend more on a Ford than a brand-new Accord, we have seen just about everything. But we're done.
As long as we can get loan paperwork signed with our bank before labor starts. Tick-tock, tick-tock ...
Just think, 25 years from now this will make a great story for the kids
ReplyDeleteI think you're better off with an automatic for this time in your lives. It's easier to pass thing to a toddler with your "shifting hand" if you don't have to shift!
ReplyDeleteP: it'll make a great story as soon as Peanut understands what's going on around it.
ReplyDeleteRob: You're absolutely right, and that's part of why we folded. We're just both sentimental about the old car and the manual, and that'll take a little while to get over. A screaming toddler may take care of that, though!
Congrats! Seems like that worked out pretty well, considering. And very quickly too!
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