My Civic Duty (Part Two)

Financing through the dealership. I decided that if we were going to have to pay a higher interest rate that I would want a car that would last for longer, aka the Honda Civic.

My mom decided that she would be able to go look at earliest this past Thursday, I had to work, however, so we had to push back the escapade to this Saturday.

Our first stop was Huggins. My mom did not want to deal with any crap from a Used Salesman. When he told her that the best deal we could find would not be from there, we left.

Disgruntled and fed up, we went to our mothership. Nordstrom. She had to return a pair of shoes (ones that were way expensive, but very amazing) and make an exchange. Upset upon leaving that she was leaving such beautiful shoes, we left the store still downhearted.

Our next stop was futile, they did have the change in color of something she had just bought at Ulta. Our third stop after the first dealership was Dress Barn to make a return. I hate bargain shoppers. That place might as well have been hell for me. I could feel the cheap clothing and angry attitudes slowly collapsing around me.

We were a tad hungry and didn’t want to go back to car shopping with bad attitudes and empty stomachs, so we stopped at Super Salad. This was the best choice we could have made. We had a healthy, filling lunch and were able to cast off out bad attitudes. We were ready to go back out to a dealership.

My mom had visited David McDavid by herself earlier in the morning to scope things out. Upon arriving, we were not greeted in the parking lot, which if you have gone Used Car Shopping is very odd. My mom, once again turning sour, leads me to the building, where we stand in the lobby waiting for the guy who had helped her earlier.

The floor manager was out and really upset that there weren’t people watching the lot, my mom concurred. He directed us to Dyan Smith. She was amazing! She made my mom’s day enjoyable, and she never is happy at a car dealership. We took the car we wanted to look at for a test drive. A dark blue 2008 Honda Civic with 29,000 miles on it. For a used car, it was practically new.

I just happened to test drive that exact car three weeks earlier so already knew how much I loved it. The floor manager and Dyan were able to get us a great price, one below book value. We were sold.