Car Adventure
Now that I've had my car for a month and a half, maybe I should write a post about it?! :)
Let's start from the beginning. It was a little over a week before my 22nd birthday, and I was in a shopping mood, so I went to the mall during my lunch break. I was headed to the Gap when I saw an adorable little car! I immediately wanted it, and took a picture of the car with my iPhone and emailed it to my mom telling her it would be a great birthday present! Also mentioning inheritance money I had. Her reply? Finance it. Which I wasn't sure what that meant exactly so I googled it. Oh, it means getting a loan and paying it off over time. Well, duh!
Next, my parents and I were out in Christiansburg, and I told them to take me by the Duncan Hyundai lot to see if they had that car there and just look at it. My mom looked with me, and next to the two door version, was a four door version. Four doors was more appealing, and sounded safer anyway, and it had a stick shift! (Which I love driving!) Plus it was totally adorable!
I thought about it over the weekend, and the next Monday I went to my mom and told her I wanted to get that car and I needed her help to figure out all the financing and such. She made me wait until my dad got home for us to go look at the car...gosh! But when we got there, it was GONE!? I was so crushed, because I had worked myself up with excitement to get that car! Brad, the guy who gave us info on the car a few days before, came up and greeted us. He told us that the next people who came to look at that car bought it. No way! I started to think I'd go with the 2 door version like originally, and I was happy with the Ice Blue color over the Navy anyway. He told me he'd go look to see what they had coming in that was similar to the car we looked at before. When he came back they had an Ice Blue four door Hyundai Accent with a stick shift! I was so excited! So we went inside and sat at one of those little desks to talk about options. We had to make a small down payment to hold the car for us.
Next came all the trying to figure out my credit...see if someone would give me a car loan...and I had to set up car insurance for myself! It felt so adult to prepare all that stuff. I learned so much! And I'm all graduated! Just shows you still learn even after you've gotten out of school!
I was finally approved for a loan, my car got to Christiansburg the night of my birthday! Brad called me at my birthday dinner to let me know my car was in! It was an awesome phone call. The next day I got all my paper work ready, headed to Christiansburg with my mom, and picked up my car! (After signing my life away to BB&T for the loan...so worth it though!)
The first thing I did was take it to work and show everyone there, since I had been gushing about it so much! Then I had to run over to BreakZONE for a shift I took over for someone. I parked in a metered spot, since there was about an hour until 5 and I couldn't park anywhere that needed a pass. However, I was busy trying to make sure all the doors were locked and such and making sure I was clocking in on time, when I realized I forgot to put money in the meter! I ran back out there, and naturally...Parking Services had JUST put a ticket on my brand new car! *ack!* Nothing I could do about it, so I left the ticket there so I wouldn't have to put money in the meter, and I went to work.
I've had it for a month and a half month, and I just love driving it around! That weekend after I got it, my dad and I drove it up to New Jersey! It was comfortable and drives so smoothly. I love it! Everyone says that the car suits me. I'm glad to have a car that is ME! :D
~Taylor~
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