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Daaaaang, that’s loaded!

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

Today, I have to travel to my company’s home office to teach a class. The day before I’m sup­posed to drive over I find I’ve got a voice mail. As I do 99.9999% of my job either via emails, IMs or F2F, this in itself was extremely odd. Then I lis­tened to the mes­sage and found out it was a sales man­ager from deal­er­ship where we bought the new car.

It turns out that they want to bor­row the car for a bit to have to their insur­ance peo­ple look it over (since it was on the lot at the time of the tor­na­dos hit­ting Iowa City). I thought this more than a lit­tle odd. As I was busy get­ting ready for my trip to the home office, I kind of blew off the mes­sage. Then this morn­ing, I got another call from the deal­er­ship ask­ing for the car again. I called the guy back and explained that I’m dri­ving out of town today. He said it should really only take about 20 min­utes and they’d give the car a wash while they had it. He also said they’d bring a loaner by for me, just in case.

I agreed to let him do it and then imme­di­ately got a tad ner­vous about it. I checked their web­site and found him on it. A lit­tle bit later our recep­tion­ist called and said a guy from the deal­er­ship was here. I went up to the front desk and the only per­son around was a scrawny look­ing kid. But he was wear­ing a sweat­shirt with the dealership’s name & logo on it. Then he held out a key to him and we walked to the park­ing lot. The key was to a 2005 Volk­swa­gen Pas­sat. The sta­tion­wagon ver­sion. With a dealer’s plate in the back win­dow, a sales sticker on the same. I felt a lot bet­ter about giv­ing him my key and took him to my car. He drove off, and I hopped into the Pas­sat for a quick peek.

Oh my God! The wagon is fully loaded with all the good­ies Volk­swa­gen has to offer. Now I feel slightly cheated in that I won’t get to drive this puppy for my trip. Don’t get me wrong, I love our new car and our new car does have more gad­gets in it than any car I’ve ever owned. But still, that Pas­sat sit­ting out­side if so dang plush and lux­u­ri­ous. I could def­i­nitely enjoy dri­ving that card. :D Oh well, at least I’m get­ting a free car wash. Though, now that I think about it; I’m won­der­ing if I should have asked them to top off the gas tank. With gas at $2.84/gallon, that would have been a nice bit of sav­ings for me. *shrug* That’s prob­a­bly being a lit­tle greedy and they’ve been good to me already.

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