{{P-C}} Having the car not there is a totally sucky experience.

Hee Aimee! I ventured into a BMW dealership once to test drive their minivan thing. The attitude of the salesperson pissed me off so much I wouldn't have purchased from him if he gave me the vehicle for half price. No I did not feel it was a privilege for him to allow me to buy a car.

Boggled at the notion of Kristin being wildly unpopular and mostly ignored or scorned. It is probably a good thing that I have almost no recollection of my teen years. I'll just create a happy memory in those empty braincells.

Hey Sean, are you still around? How is your mom doing?

Nick turned 21 on Thursday.

DUUDE. How did THAT happen? Bad enough that he turned 18, but 21?? That's gotta be a typo.

I think it's crazy and cool that the same random person knows Aimee and Sunil, and posted about it, and it got found! Wow!

You'll love the Exploratorium, P-C. I did.

Oh, I'd been there, and I did love it. My BFF is a big science geek, and she would have loved it too.

They really rack up the money by charging you hundreds and hundreds to store the car at the lot.

Yeah, I was sort of prepared it for to be over a hundred, but I didn't want it to be close to two hundred. Plus the parking ticket. It's just...it can't POSSIBLY cost that much.

{{P-C}} Having the car not there is a totally sucky experience.

Yeah. As funny as the statement "Dude, where's your car?" is...it's not really funny when it happens to you.

I think it's crazy and cool that the same random person knows Aimee and Sunil, and posted about it, and it got found! Wow!

Well, heh, the last part isn't so amazing since he friended me, which is how I ended up at his journal. But, yes, crazy and cool.

Hee Aimee! I ventured into a BMW dealership once to test drive their minivan thing. The attitude of the salesperson pissed me off so much I wouldn't have purchased from him if he gave me the vehicle for half price. No I did not feel it was a privilege for him to allow me to buy a car.

Well, let me tell you. As someone who has been working here for almost a year, in the service department, DON'T BUY ONE.

As a for instance: The X5's and X3's have been having an issue where oe of the rear windows will fall off the track and not go back up. It has been proven time and time again, that for all of the years that the X5 has been in exixtence, that about a year after you have the window on one side fixed, the other one will break. It's an issue that is at least 6 years old. But has BMW found a way to fix it so it doesn't happen? Nope. Why? Because in order to fix it, the entire door panel has to come off. At least 2 hours of labor at $125/hr, plus parts. That's why. I will never ever ever own a BMW. Unless it's free. And then, I would sell it and buy something else. IMHO, if you spend that much money on a vehicle, you shouldn't know the service people by name.

I will say that a lot fo the time, the issues come from overanxious customers. "Oh my god, I passed wind and could hear it in the car! The seals are faulty! Replace them all!" But more often than not, it's some simple thing that shouldn't happen.

Plus, I'm convinced that A LOT of people lose about 70 IQ points when they buy these things. I get screamed at for the cars RUNNING OUT OF WINDSHEILD FLUID. I have learned that a car is undriveable if it has no windsheild wiper fluid. I didn't know that. @@ And people REFUSE to put it in themselves. They'd rather pay $125/hr for us to do it. They don't know anything about their vehicles and when they call, they get pissed of at me because I don't know. If I knew, I'd be fixing your car for $125/HR!! Not making barely more than minimum wage. Read the owner's manual. Be a man. Suck it in and put the goddamn windshield fluid in your.self. Fuck, man.

In conclusion, I very much dislike BMW's. And a lot of the people that own them. Present company excluded, naturally.

Boggled at the notion of Kristin being wildly unpopular and mostly ignored or scorned.

Aww. Thanks sweetie. I was just an awkward kid who was a little too smart and a little too outspoken to fit into the twisted world that is pre-teen social life. Besides, it was the 80's. I really never got the 80's, and it felt the same way about me.

Luckily, I was high school during the early 90's. Grunge fit me a heckuva lot better than the "material girl" 80's had. Plus, I discovered theatre! Nothing like finding drama jocks and realizing you've found people as weird as you.

Huh.

Lee, if I had known all of this before you bought yours, I would have tried like hell to talk you out of it. I hope you haven't had the issues that so many of the people I see do.

Nope.

Other than the money to install my ipod, the only money I have spent on my car in the past 2 3/4 years was $5.00 to get the oil topped off, and that was just because it needed doing when I couldn't get to the dealership. Well, and at the car wash, and several of them have been done for free by the dealership.

Yeah, I was sort of prepared it for to be over a hundred, but I didn't want it to be close to two hundred. Plus the parking ticket. It's just...it can't POSSIBLY cost that much.

{{P-C}} Getting towed sucks. I got towed because I was parked in a snow zone. And there was no snow. Chicago tows even if there is no snow.

I got my car the very next day, but between the ticket and the tow fee, it was $250-plus. I believe the "storage" fee was $100/day and I didn't even have to pay that since I retrieved it so fast.