Main topic of the day: Mission accomplished!! I will explain. The weekend started pretty slow. I was planning on going out to the Irish pub Friday evening, because it was St. patties day of course, but after some extra thought, I figured that it would be packed with college kids getting drunk and I would hate to be crowded in by a bunch of slobbering drunk sorority girls getting rowdy and tearing their clothes off while shouting “Kiss me I’m Irish.”
Wait a sec, why didn’t I go?
Oh yeah! I remember, because I have a very wonderful red head at home and she loves me whole bunches. So we did the usual, stayed home, ordered pizza, and watched some TV. I think I might have played a little on the PC but it wasn’t much. Saturday I woke up around normal time and formulated a plan. I got Andrew up and we headed out to Home Depot. I needed some parts. We are working on a special project for one of Amy’s costumes. I would tell you, but she wants it to be a surprise. After that I stopped by a few other stores to pick up some DVD’s and comics. More research of course. Amy had been out with her friend Melissa. When we all finally got back home, Amy started in going through listings to find a car. Around 3:30-4pm she came in saying she found one she likes and it hadn’t bee sold yet. I talked to the guy and he seemed really nice, but he lived in Richmond.
Richmond is about 1 hour and 45min away from Fairfax VA.
I asked the guy if he would hold onto it until we arrive and convinced Amy to just drop everything and head down there. I made it in an hour and a half. The car was in very good condition considering it’s age. We gave it a good twice over and took it for a spin around the block. The guy said he had another woman come by but he was holding the car for us. Amy said she loved the car so we made him on offer while we were still out on the drive. The downside is that he wanted cash. Living in the modern age, I had almost forgotten about cash. Everywhere we go things are handled by electronic means so naturally we wouldn’t be carrying around that much cash.
Thus begins our next adventure. We tell the guy that we are going to hit an ATM and that we will be back. Now see here’s the thing. We have the money. We actually had more then what he was asking. But Amy had stocked it away in her savings account. Some of you may remember that banks only allow you to pull out so much per day. We tested that theory. She had already pulled out some money earlier so we tapped out on her card first. I managed to have a good amount available so we hit my card next. I was able to pull out a little more. All totaled we managed to get almost all of it between the two of us. (That’s a lot of 20’s)
We called the guy back and thankfully he said he would accept a check for the remainder of the amount. To make things worse, we got lost on the way back to his house. We finally made the sale and Amy got to drive her new baby home. The guy was even nice enough to give us a call after we got home to make sure we made it okay. She went into overdrive to make sure she got the Insurance and registration done. So now she is fully able to drive it. Amy has her own car now! From what she said, this is the first time she has owned a car by herself since she was 16 years old. She is super excited about it. It’s a 95 Dodge Neon. As you can tell from the picture is a dark reddish maroon. It runs very well. So a huge congrats to Amy!!!
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