I spent the day yesterday at a packed and chaotic pre-Christmas Babies R Us furtively measuring double strollers only to discover that none of them would fit in my trunk; on the way home I called the dealer to make an appointment. We simply have outgrown our old car. We just have. And as a single mother the idea of spending the next few months getting brakes done, buying all new tires, doing the big 50,000 mile maintenance...ugh, all those appointments and all that waiting around...honestly I wanted a new car just to re-set the clock on all that crap. If this one goes anything like the old one Bobby will be six and Theo four before I have to do anything with it other than oil changes. Woo!
How did I pull this off, given my current poverty? I just told the guy the truth - I have no down payment and can only afford about $50 more in monthly payments, if that. We agreed to a lease-to-own deal. Honestly I don't know if I got a good deal on the car or not; all I know is I can afford it and our growing family needed it. When I think of all the times lately we've been inconvenienced or had to not do something because we couldn't fit more people in the car or had no cargo space - and now the issue with the double strollers not fitting - it was time.
So we had a miserable day sitting around in the dealer for four hours. Theo lunged and whined in the carrier and Bobby kept pointing at the giant monster truck in the customer parking lot and saying, "this one! This!!!" I was alternately patient and fun and then fed up and bitchy. But we survived and I never have to see those people again and I helped some kind Egyptian salesman make his quota, so hey. Always happy to help a brother out.
When we got home we found a giant hideous flying cockroach in the bathroom. In my 13 years in this house I've only seen a couple of these. They give me the absolute heebie jeebies. I screamed and Bobby screamed and I killed it with copious amounts of bug spray (and subsequently had to scrub the room down as this is where Theo crawls and then puts his hands in his mouth - ugh). Bobby kept pointing at it and saying, "Spider Man". No, honey. Not spider man.
I think I've had just about enough excitement for one day. Good night!
Congrats on the new car! I need to get one soon, too, but I absolutely abhor car shopping. I'm hoping my dad will come just to help me get a better deal than a single woman can ever hope to get. And yeah, GROSS about the flying cockroach! That would give me the heebie jeebies, too!
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Oh and I thought I was the only one who thinks it is easier to reset the clock than keep replacing/maintaining all those moving parts! Congratulations!
ReplyDeleteNew car! Awesome! I am more than a bit jealous (praying my 15 year old Camry - with its surprisingly big trunk - hangs on a long time!)
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the new car! I do know the end of the year is a good time to get really good deals on cars, them wanting to clear out inventory etc. enjoy!
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