Gray Porch Cat is balanced carefully on the back of the iron chair, staring in the window at me, plucking at the screen, and meowing. *sigh* He's fine, you know. The weather is great, there's food and water and warm places to sleep. But I think he's lonesome.
Tomorrow his fuzzy butt goes back in the box and he goes to the vet for his last shots and to reassure me that he doesn't have something bad he could give to Leo and Percy. Then he'll come inside, and my household will be disrupted for days while we all figure out what to do with each other.
They playfight through the screen door, so they already know each other. That'll be a help.
Heh. I had brunch with my sister and her BFF, who is a big geekgirl, and I showed them the vampire pad of WTFF, and they were properly appalled.
And then we segued into geeky TV movies & shows, and Eureka came up, and I mentioned I knew someone who was good friends with Colin.
C. turned to me, with jaw agape and hissed, "I despise you!" (Remember we're in the Midwest. People get all gape-jawed from seeing local news anchors.)
It was funny. And fun.
And my sister had this amazing bananas foster pancake. OMG, so good. And we has this salmon tartare appetizer that was made with avocado, goat cheese and a pomegranate vinaigrette that I could have eaten a metric shitton of, it was so good.
We never brunch! It was fun -- my sister got a Groupon.
For the record, I didn't feel particularly disadvantaged or picked on in the dealership. The prices they had were the prices on the website, and he only showed me the cars I asked to see. And he was patient while I chatted on the phone with Colin.
Is it in salesperson's benefit to sell you on financing? He didn't try that very hard either.
depending on how the salesperson is rewarded. it is certainly in the dealership's benefit.
I thought there was an implied leverage if you buy cash? No?
I think yes, ita !. However, if you get financing through the dealership, it can make them a bit disgruntled, because -- no interest.
But salespeople have a damn hard time taking their eyes off ready cash and an instasale (and instacommission.) So...
ita,
dealerships get commissions for customers for whom they acquire loans. My honda dealership loved me for taking out a loan with them years ago.
cash they like, but I think they liked that commission on financing more.
I wish I could just put the car on my credit card. That would be simplest, plus beaucoup points.
Huh. I have a ridiculous credit limit on my VISA - like, $16,000, I never use it but feel gratified that if I ever need to do a bunk to Brazil or someplace I'll have some leeway - I wonder if a car dealer would take it for a car?
The first dealership I checked with said no, so I pretty much assumed the others wouldn't. I do not know that explicitly for this one, though. It just didn't seem to be in their interest. So to speak.
