Slack comes in Strange Ways
Correspondent:: mshotz@aol.commonkeypo (Rev. Richard Skull)
Date: 14 Nov 2004 17:42:58 GMT
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Last Friday, As I was approcahing home on my commute home. I pulled away from a
Stop Light only to discover that the old Cosica would not shift out of First
Gear.
The old girl just went along screaming in first until I was alomst up to the
Artisens Saving Bank. This is the same Bank shown in the Art Mines by Pasture
Pressure withs its clock stuck with the word "CON" on it. Well just as the car
passed that sign, it shifted into second, yes, the clack showed "CON"!
Unfortunalty, this did not cause the car to shift into third. And once I got
into the small town I live in, the car once again refused to shift gears.
So Saturday morning, I go down to Townsend Brothers to car shop. The Luck Plane
was tiltling my direction! They were having a serious sale! Business has been
so slow that GM has allowed thme to mark down certain models and all left over
2004's to the bone AND offer 0% intrest!
But the choice was new or Used. The cheapest car was the Aveo Shoe Box. I drove
one. Weird Shiter on Transmission. Grabby clutch (but might be because it new
and I am not used to driving it). Price was right adn the payments were under
150 a month for 4 years.
Something about the Aveo gave me "bad vibes". The Biggest was the old saying
"never buy a GM car in its first two years", the second the Aveo is made in
Korea. Land of the Hyndia and Kia.
So Before deciding I look at the used lot. I got a whiff stench reding! There,
I saw it! A 2002 Cavalier! 2-door, CD player,. 4-speed auto, low miles, good
price!
Drove it. runs great. handle well with no rattles. Did not hear any click,
knock doing little circles in school parking lot. Brakes were firm and strong.
The next surprize was the trading in value for the Corsica. I was expecting
less then $100. They gave me $200! Two hundred for c 4-door with a bad
transmission and 144,230 miles on it. I figure the only reason I got that was
becuase I had all those "BoB" bumper stickers on it!. They doubled the value of
my car! Praise "BoB"!
I must say, the salesman was THE most Pinkest guy I ever met. JVH-1 have mercy
on him if "BoB' decides to go into competiotion with him!
Now I have a to get a loan for the balance I owe from the down payment and
trade in. Luckily, unlike most Sub's, I have excellent credit rating. So the
bank had no problem writing a loan. but there was a little trouble. Thier
minium loan was $2,500 and I only need to finaince $2000.
Well the Bank guy talks to me on the phone, If I take the $2500 loan, he will
give me the New car intrest rate which is 2 pionts lower then the used. After
doing the math I was saving money!
So now I have a payment of $111 a month for only 2 years.
And to add more slack to this, I now have to order a whole new batch of Church
Bumper Stickers to place on it.
I almost think that Stang and "BoB" snuck up to my car that day and poured
kerosene into the transmission of my old car just so it would chew itself up!
But we know "BoB" would never do that. He'd just set your car on fire!
MSHOTZ: The Post Post Modern Man
"War hath no Fury like a non-combatants"
Charles E. Montague
Correspondent:: "nu-monet v7.0"
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 11:22:14 -0700
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Rev. Richard Skull wrote:
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That's just what they would LIKE you to think.
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