Archive for February 26th, 2008
Big News and Laughing For Two Hours Straight Hurts
Two post ago I told you that I would have big news today, something new in my life. I bought myself a new car. I am actually leasing it, as I did my previous one. My old car was a Chev Optra5, for you Americans it is the same car as a Suzuki Reno. I now have a Chev Cobalt LS. It is not much bigger than my Optra5 but I don’t mind, I like small cars. I traded in the Optra5 5 months before my lease was up because the deal I got from the dealership I did not have to pay these 5 months. I also got $1000 for bringing it in. My salesman told me this is because a lot of people had problems with the car. I did not have any major problems with it. What I did not like about the Optra5 was that for a small car it was damn hard on gas. The Cobalt is supposed to be better on gas, hell it couldn’t be worst than what I had.
When I told friends and family that I was getting this Cobalt LS, everybody knew someone that knew someone that was related to someone that knew the cousin of someone that owns a Cobalt and they have all the problems in the world. Well there is so many of these cars on the roads around here and I have heard of 5 people that had problems with the car, I think the odds are in my favour. If I bought myself a lemon well I guess I’ll have to make lemonade. That’s positive thinking for you, isn’t it? I like the car and that is all that counts, right?
Last week I gave the dealership a deposit of $400 so they can keep the car for me. When I was done signing what seemed to be a thousand documents, I was done so I left the dealership and five minutes later I realized that I did not get my deposit back. I turned around and went back and got it. I then drove to my mothers where I emptied the stuff I had in the Optra5 to pick it up. I left and drove for half an hour when I realized that I had forgotten a book I was reading. I turned around and went back and got the book. The rest of my drive was uneventful. I think my subconscious wanted me to drive the car because it was enjoying it self.
One of the options I got in my car is XM satellite radio. I did not really want this option but to get all the other I wanted and not wait to order a new car I got it. My brother told me that after the three month trial was over I would not be able to live without it. I thought to myself I have an iPod I don’t really need XM satellite radio. After driving for 2 hours I am hooked. I have been listening to the comedians and been laughing the whole time I was driving and after laughing that long my stomach hurts. So maybe this is a reason for not keeping XM satellite.
