It's just that the minor issues eat up the cost savings of getting a $3500 car instead of a $4500 car.

There's a song about that. I think by a local band. That became the name of another local band (Thousand Dollar Car). Ot goes something like: There's no such thing as a thousand dollar car blah blah blah if you buy one you'll find you have to fix a bunch of stuff and in the end you'll have a two-thousand dollar car. Except with rhyming and rhythm and so forth.

Needs to be adjusted for inflation, but the gist still works.

Geez, it's 1 am already. I'm a freakin' chameleon, I tell you. I've sent emails to no less than eight different women tonight (some more different than others), and I've tailored each one of them. Apparently I contain multitudes. This could be troublesome if they wind up marrying different people.

Lemon laws in this state are pretty specific and really only apply to new cars.

To me this seem just fucking stupid. I mean, there would obviously be more issues in dealing used cars and assholes trying to sell problem vehicles without properly informing the buyers than with a brand new car which is highly unlikely to have defects AND more likely to have a warranty.

Awww, Ple, I'm sorry I jerked your chain when you're having such a shitty week.

Feel free to punch me in the head anytime.

I'll bet JZ's Matron-friend will have some good ideas. She's all dressmakery.

"Now prepare your brain, filthy beast of meat and hair, your magical love adventure begins NOW!”

And so begins a brand new Amazing Race.

And so begins a brand new Amazing Race.

I think you should put it in your dating profile.

Oh, and I"m sorry you're having such trouble with the new car, Plei. I think I forgot to say that. Buying a new car (by which I mean not opreviously owned by you, I've never bought a new new car, so I don't know what that involves, really) should be happy-making and worry-lifting, not frutrating and needing work done. Bah.

But I also totally understand how just wanting the whole car buying process to be over gets you to this place. It's just luck that my own near meltdowns of "Just take this one so we don't have to look anymore" turned out relatively well.

{{{Plei}}} No advice to give, but I so sympathize on the dress-buying issue. I swear the baby-industrial complex thinks that the only women who reproduce are 5'4" and get pregnant with a B or C cup that neatly expands to a D or DD, no further, during the pregnancy/nursing period.

My rant of the day: I just joined a new diet support group that sprung from one of my writers' lists, hoping for some reason that it wouldn't be filled with the usual happy talk diet cheerleading combined with obsessiveness that made me vow never to attend another WW meeting.

Someone responded to my intro post with the following "encouragement": "Nothing tastes as good as thin feels."

Grr. Like I haven't heard that particular inanity a thousand times already, and like it's not fucking bullshit besides, and like I even want to be thin--thin doesn't look good on me. I just want to be a healthy weight, slim and strong but still with curves.

Now I just have to decide whether this group is doomed to be useless and unsubscribe in a silent huff, or try to explain that look, I know you meant to be nice, but I can't stand that phrase and tend to have similar knee-jerk reactions to all the dieting platitudes, so can we please find some other way to support me.

That's a big part of why I haven't taken advantage of any of the support e-diets keeps telling me I have available, Susan. Are these people you know pretty well from the writer's list, so you can say "That doesn't motivate me" and have them understand that that comes from Susan who has beta read for us and so forth?

It seems like if you could make it work, then it would be valuable. I guess it depends on whetehr what you want from this group is what everyone else wants, as well. More or less.

Eh. More coffee needed, clearly.

Plei, what's your cup size? I'm positive Charlotte can come through with a suggestion or five, but I want to give her the right info. Also, I have another top-heavy momfriend who's only an inch or so taller than you, so if Charlotte's suggestions are too talllgirl to work for you, I'll ping friend #2.