I have one more thing to add to my bag of neuroses: going to car dealerships. Everything about the process of buying a car is a headache. If it's not the constant pressure they feed you to buy something that day, it's the sheer amount of paperwork one has to fill out when one decides to actually buy the thing. Also, you go in realizing you're going to get ripped off on either the price of the car or the value of the trade in.
They are set up to take as much money from you as possible, and you go in trying to get the most for your money. Therein lies the conflict.
I hate conflict. And I know that going into dealerships will eventually lead to it. Ug.
I bring this up because this weekend I went to test drive a Mini Cooper S. It was an automatic, which might not the most desired transmission for the car, but it certainly makes driving in the nightmare that is NJ traffic easier.
Given my distaste for dealerships, I was trying to find reasons not to go, but I went anyway. After all was said and done, I found out I had a perfect reason not to go: some dude had already bought the thing off of Ebay! They neglected to tell me this during the two phone conversations I had with them on Friday and Saturday. Ug.
They did give me a chance to at least take a look at it. I kinda dig that little car, and the automatic has paddle shifts on the steering wheel...cool.
I guess there's one other thing about car dealerships I don't like: with the amount of research I do beforehand (what, me? cautious?), and as I am somewhat of a car guy, I usually know more about the car than the guy who's selling them. (might be more the case with used cars than new.) This I find highly annoying, especially when they feed me information I know to be incorrect.
Anyway, I didn't buy it...but if that guy hadn't gotten it on ebay, I might have just.
Wasn't to be this weekend.
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