Hot Wheels - Part 1

Have you done this recently? Trudged back and forth through lines of cars, carefully comparing sticker prices. Did you change your mind on your favorite color twenty times? Did you know that even on a cold, sunny Winter day, when placing your hands on a light colored car it's cool to the touch, while a dark colored car is red hot?

Two days at two dealerships.........I deserve a new car after all this!

Hot cars and grandma ~ sounds better than cars and hot grandma!

Important lessons for ladies ~ learned from chilly visits to new car dealerships.

• When shopping for a new car.................if you have one, always take a granddaughter with you. Preferably one who's spent a lot of time in your care since birth. I'll elaborate on this later.
• Let this wonderful grandchild hold your camera. When you arrive home and upload your photos of the day, you will be gloriously entertained by a slide show beyond comparison to anything you could shoot yourself. They know how to work all the controls effortlessly, including 'color change'. Oh to see the world through creative 12 year old eyes again!
• Know a wonderful person who has a brother/sister who is a new car sales person. This sales person will be wonderful too!
• You should carry bug spray, even in December. Apparently there is a bug who loves hanging out on shiny new car roofs...........and he brings his entire family along to hop in your hair while you bend over gasping at those sticker prices on the window.
• Remember, you'll always need twice the amount of money than what you budgeted for the car of your dreams..........some extra bells and whistles may have to be crossed off your wish list. Be prepared to wave a wand in hopes a fairy godmother (or wealthy sugar daddy!) will appear who can come up with something a little more classy than a pumpkin coach pulled by mice.
  

Anyone know the name of these bugs?

There are often shadowy/shady characters hanging about a car dealership ~ sometimes they're the customers, not the dapper salesmen who seem to appear the instant you pull into the parking lot. (No offence to any readers who are car sales persons ~ you do a great job most of the time).

Now, about having a granddaughter tag along. She will always be on your side............even though she adores her granddad. She will loll in the back seat during the test drives, extolling the virtues of the reclining rear seats, the overhead reading lights, the extra leg room now she's getting taller. When sitting at the sales person's desk while granddad crunches numbers with a pained look, she will blithely repeat, several times, that her grandma deserves the nicer car, she's earned it, she's worth it, that it's the perfect vehicle for granddad's girls to drive around town, down to the shore, up to the mountains! Yes, a granddaughter can cinch the deal in your favor because her granddad is "the best granddad in the whole world".

Thanks Jasmin.......and granddad. Now, let's ride!!!!!