Sunday night in Denver on the way to Hannah’s house from the hospital, my old reliable loved Lexus started acting up. Scott tried to drive it later and we had to push it back into the driveway. So Monday morning when it was time for Scott and Leah to leave to go back to Kansas, I was shocked when he told me they were taking the Lexus. He said it was back to normal.
A half hour later, he called and said, “Come rescue us, it broke down and it is smoking and we are not in a good place on the interstate.” I zipped to pick them up and we had the car towed to a place in Aurora that said they couldn’t look at it for at least a week. I took a Lyft back to Hannah’s and Scott and Leah took off for Kansas in the Rav.
The next day while comtemplating a plane ride or rental car home, I called the Lexus dealer who said they’d look at the car the same day and had it towed over there. I looked online and called Scott and said, “I want to buy a new car. I’ll buy it myself.” To my surprise, he said for me to check into it.
So I did some research and made some calls and filled out some forms and Tuesday afternoon Dawn gave me a ride to the Lexus dealer. I looked at the one I picked out and another one then text drove the one I liked and started making a deal. My Lexus hadn’t been looked at as promised. I was given two offers, one with the trade in value of my fixed car and one with a trade in value with the unknown. I asked for more and got it. Then the service department called and I could tell it was going to be expensive, a water pump and maybe the alternator, so I felt like I got a good deal. I qualified for the loan all by myself.
After doing all the paperwork and cleaning out the old car, I was told that the engine head was cracked so I did indeed make a good deal.
I bought the cutest little white SUV with all the bells and whistles. At first I was overwhelmed but after driving it home today, I love it. It has so many safety features and a whole computer that displays the GPS and phone and reads texts to me and plays music and makes calls and texts.
I’m pretty proud of it.
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