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Saturday, December 30, 2006

It's Not So Bad To Miss The Boat

Today we spent yet another day navigating the treacherous waters of car dealerships by test-driving minivans. While they have sailed far, some of their designs have many leagues to travel before driving them will no longer feel like steering a boat.

It's amazing how worn out I am from basically doing nothing today. While I may have spent 20 minutes on the road, at least 4 hours were spent sitting at various desks while car salesmen went back and forth trying to locate cars, moving cars out from behind countless other cars in which we had no interest, and going back and forth with various offers. It was kind of like playing automotive "Deal or No Deal" except that the salesmen weren't as funny as Howie Mandel or as pretty as the "models", we wished that the sales managers would have been as invisible as "the banker", and no one offered us a dime. Oh and even NBC's commercials are more entertaining than flipping through the same car brochure for the 3,000th time and confirming once more that seat belts are indeed a standard option for the driver and every passenger on all minivans.

The good news?
  1. We decided on a car. However, we are going to wait until the spring to see if we can get a better deal.
  2. Our teenage babysitter (returned from college for winter break) got no worse results than we have been getting during our week of potty-training our older son (OS). Unfortunately while that means she did not see any accidents, he also carefully held everything in until my husband dropped him into a bath this evening.


A. Elliot's Lesson Learned: Leave a lot of time if you're going to test drive minivans.

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posted by Alex Elliot @ 9:33 PM   2 comments
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  • At 1/01/2007 6:29 PM, Blogger Suzanne said…

    What vehicle did you decide on?

    Happy New Year! Also, I keep forgetting to ask you if you received a package from my mother-in-law. She sent some books and other stuff to you after Thanksgiving.

     

  • At 1/01/2007 10:11 PM, Blogger Alex Elliot said…

    Unfortunately, only the most expensive: The Honda Odessy.

     
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