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sparkindarkness) wrote2012-01-29 07:10 pm
sparkindarkness) wrote2012-01-29 07:10 pm
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We need a new car
Which means car shopping, since my old, much loved, creaky little rust bucket has finally keeled over and given up.
Now I am being weatched by everyone from friends to work colleagues to Beloved to make sure I don't buy another creaky old rust bucket. Anyone would think I have a habit for such things! *Hides*
Problem is, of course, that finding the time to car shop is not exactly easy at the moment.
Much BIGGER problem is that Beloved has offered to do it for me
Beloved, shopping, on his own. For a CAR?! A car he expects me to drive? Oh nononononononono I think not.
Actually Beloved also has reservations because his research so far has been shot by my having only 4 questions about a car:
1) Does it have 4 wheels?
2) What's the fuel efficiency?
3) What colour is it?
4) How much is it
Beloved seems to think I need to ask more questions. I don't know if there are more relevent questions. He finds this frustrating. He also thinks I should stop dismissing cars he shows me because "they're the wrong colour". What? I'm not driving a red, white, blue or silver car. Nasty things. And my old car was white (Mimi, from 'Allo 'Allo, so called because she was small, French, blonde and surprisingly powerful) and looked horrible.
Now I am being weatched by everyone from friends to work colleagues to Beloved to make sure I don't buy another creaky old rust bucket. Anyone would think I have a habit for such things! *Hides*
Problem is, of course, that finding the time to car shop is not exactly easy at the moment.
Much BIGGER problem is that Beloved has offered to do it for me
Beloved, shopping, on his own. For a CAR?! A car he expects me to drive? Oh nononononononono I think not.
Actually Beloved also has reservations because his research so far has been shot by my having only 4 questions about a car:
1) Does it have 4 wheels?
2) What's the fuel efficiency?
3) What colour is it?
4) How much is it
Beloved seems to think I need to ask more questions. I don't know if there are more relevent questions. He finds this frustrating. He also thinks I should stop dismissing cars he shows me because "they're the wrong colour". What? I'm not driving a red, white, blue or silver car. Nasty things. And my old car was white (Mimi, from 'Allo 'Allo, so called because she was small, French, blonde and surprisingly powerful) and looked horrible.
Colour is important.
Silver and white are boring and also rather dangerous as they are hard to see in poor light -- fog, blizzards, and dusk especially.
The Rolling Living Room (My 2006 Land Rover LR3/Discovery 3 -- see icon) is white and while I wouldn't have chosen that (I'd have liked British Racing Green) it's still a nice-looking truck. It's also large enough and heavy enough that most other vehicles tangling with it (short of an 18-wheeler) would come off worse. It has very good lights too. Unlike Gloria, its predecessor (a silver 2000 Dodge Grand Caravan) which only had a pair of anaemic candles for headlamps.