looked at a car today! it was an 82 jeep wagoneer. a woody. you know, one of those beautiful blue full sized jeeps with the wood paneling on the outside? well, it sure was beautiful. we drove it around and it was all good. until we reached about 50 mph. then it decided to shake all about. yowza! and the ride was a bit bumpy. new shocks might fix it all, we thought.

pulled the woody into our favorite tuffy auto center. asked them to check it out, ran over to kmarket for some pizza. yummy. cheese with green pepper.

re-enter tuffy. nice man holds up keys and says "run, don't walk, away from this piece of sh*t." well! three servicemen beg us not to buy the car. oil leaking bad. transmission fluid leaking bad. tires bad. suspension bad. we laugh our way out of there. one actually says "offer them 5. the junk yard will give you 40 and you'll come out 35 ahead." point taken!

no new car. sigh.




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