On June 30th Larry and I celebrated our 11th anniversary. The big boys extended their vacation with the Rudel's and spent the night with them. Strider was with Larry's parents so we planned dinner and a movie. We finished dinner pretty quickly and had about an hour to kill before the movie started. The oil needed to be changed in the car so we drove past Jiffy Lube but neither one of us like that place so we drove on. We decided to drive to the Auto Mall to see if the Honda Dealership would change the oil. We pulled in and rolled down the window to ask one of the salesmen if the service department was open, it wasn't. He got us talking and was complimenting how great our car looked. (It had just been washed and waxed so it looked pretty nice) The salesmen, being the good salesmen he was, got us out of the car looking at other cars. We asked him if they could give us an idea of what the trade-in value would be for our car, which got us inside the dealership playing the pricing game. They actually told us they would pay us more than what we owed on the car so we were pretty interested to see what we could work out. We were shown a minivan that would be pretty practical for our new family size but we weren't very excited about the thought of what that would mean for our lovely car that we both LOVE. Anyway, we had an idea of what we would be willing to pay for the minivan. They kept playing the number game and coming back with a larger number than what we wanted to pay for the minivan. They finally got their number within a couple hundred dollars of what we were willing to pay so we finally agreed to trade in our sweet car for the new practical minivan.
This would have been the car Dresden got to drive when he turned 16...
Now he will get to drive this...
We should have just gone to Jiffy Lube.
