Jonathan & I took Elizabeth into Ptown (& slightly beyond) today, in search of the vehicle. Poor used car salesmen, didn't know what they were in for when we walked through the door! It was quite fun (& eventually fruitful) in the end... but oyg was it a long, hot, slightly frustrating [mentally] day!
We started out going through some online & Oregonian classifieds with blank looks and shruggy responses from an uninspired Beth. Not to mention the fact that the most promising of leads gave not even an answer to our phone inquiries. Finally we forged ahead, on towards the scary land that is dealerships/lots!
After the randomest of encounters at a PizzaHut (merely a potty stop!) Jonathan had found a good response and a lot with multiple opportunities in the difficult range we were dealing with. Off to BeaverTown it was (with some directive guidance, by phone, from my 'rents.)
Talk about sadness incarnate; this dealership, which shall remain nameless (mostly because it escapes me at the moment,) had next to nothing to offer & that that they did offer either didn't start or looked like a dog had called it his play pen for the last 4 years! So suddenly we were headed back to HappyRock, to the dealership she had been to the day before, to follow-up on & reconsider a vehicle that looked better & better by the minute under these 'enlightening' circumstances.
*past mid-night at this point, not done writing; totally need to go to bed*
