I bought a car

[hrj]

This evening I spent a rather delightful couple of hours with an assortment of Car Sales Guys, reading over all sorts of documents and making marks of various sorts on them. Tomorrow evening I take delivery on a "Kiwi Metallic" (i.e., green) Honda Element. (Yes, the sales contract includes a rider saying it's contingent on my inspection and acceptance of the vehicle.) I got it for a couple thousand less than what I'd set mentally as my limit (which in turn was about a thou and a half less than what I would have spent on a Prius). The salesman did make a half-hearted attempt to start me off with a vastly inflated asking price, but when i whipped out my printouts of online price research he grinned and said he'd had to go through the motions. They even gave me a couple hundred trade-in for the Ford. So technically when I go to the Mists Games Tourney tomorrow I'm driving a "loaner" from the dealer that just happens to be the car I traded in to them. This is assuming that I don't wake up feeling awful tomorrow. I've managed to accumulate a fair amount of sleep deprivation this week and am currently fighting a tickle in my throat that could go either way.

Being an Element, I'm thinking the car will need a name that follows the proper nomenclature format. Being green, I"m thinking tentatively about "Viridium".

Comments

[nedlnthred.livejournal.com]

Yay!! New car! What fun.

[duchessletitia.livejournal.com]

Cool!!!!!!!!

[mdlbear]

I like "viridium" -- sounds suitably metallic. Of course, chlorine really is green, but doesn't sound nearly as suitable for a car.

off the top of my head....

[ermine-rat.livejournal.com]

How about "GRN+PWR", "VOLT(star symbol)"?

"IDIUMATIC" or "IDIOMATIC" depending on your emphasis....

Re: off the top of my head....

[hrj.livejournal.com]

I should note that the "name" thing isn't for the license plate (for which Viridium would have too many characters) -- I'm keeping the personalized plate from the Ford, which is "S LASKOU", Czech for "with love", which my parents got for the Ford when it was new. This is more like the car's "secret name" that only it and I use.

Back when I was working on my PhD, I was thinking that the next new car I got, I'd get a license plate saying "RDODYAT" which, if expanded to "[A}RDODYAT" would be a plausible Early Medieval Welsh form of the Welsh word for "preposition". But the moment passed, and the concept isn't as funny now as it was then.

Re: off the top of my head....

[xrian.livejournal.com]

I always wondered what "S LASKOU" meant, but kept forgetting to ask.

Cheers!

[mbumby.livejournal.com]

Congratulations. When I was shopping, and considered an Element, I figured that, since they're kind of boxy, or ... well... cubic, I'd have to name it "Zirconium".