I have a new car.

[cjsmith]

Enormous thanks go to ladycelia, who called every Honda dealer in striking distance and found me the exact car I had chosen, in stock on a lot, at a very good price. Well, it was a very good price once she was done with the phone call. I am in awe.

I went down there this afternoon and signed a mountain of papers. There were not as many papers and signatures as when we bought the house, but there were way more than when I bought a car seventeen years ago, that's for sure!

Driving it back to work I felt like I was driving a bus. The significantly larger size will take some getting used to. I am also, apparently, an asshole magnet in this car. I got cut off four times in twenty minutes.

I took a picture of a big pile of papers, and another of the funkoid alien dashboard, but I didn't take the traditional picture of the outside of the vehicle. Then it got dark out. Pic tomorrow.

My poor dead car is still at the dealership. I hope to pick that up soon.

Comments

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Heh. I grew up around vans and such. I think from the outside the Civic is tiny, but it does have a huge amount of room inside.

Unfortunately, I'm also discovering it is indeed invisible. Better than the Baja was for being an obvious speeder. Worse for incidents such as you describe.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I grew up in a VW van, but I do not willingly *drive* one! :-) Certainly by most people's standards today's Civic is small. For seventeen years I have been driving something significantly smaller.

The little Corolla suited me. As I once joked to someone who was teasing me for taking only half a doughnut: hey, I'm only half a person.