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".

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[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".