And now, the exciting conclusion of yesterday's... Tale of Interest!

Tuesday AM - I walk into my local Nissan dealership and loudly exclaim "Who wants to make some money today?" You should have seen them jump to attention.

For those of you long-time readers, you may remember last summer I got in a little brouhaha involving another car, a ran red light, and me nearly spinning headlong into a local Domino's pizza franchise. If you're paying a lot of attention, you also may remember from another journal entry that my rental car was a Nissan Versa. Me likey very much. I didn't think I'd be in the market for a new car so suddenly, but the option of throwing three grand toward the Saturn was just too much to bear. It was Nissan time.

I laid out what I wanted to pay. They were completely up for it... except for the trade-in value of the Saturn. I quoted blue book value. They tried to stop themselves from laughing in my face. After spending $1100 on the lucifer car over the past three weeks, I only got $1100 back on the trade-in. But most importantly, they took it away from me, never to be seen or heard from again. The salesman actually said a Latin prayer over the car. I'm not even joking.

So now I am the happy owner of a monthly car payment. Oh, and a Nissan Versa. I actually like it a lot. Got to give it up to the Japanese. They're good at making cars and throwing gyroballs.

If anyone wants to joyride with me in my new car, let me know and we'll set something up. Note: the admission price is that I get second base on you. Them's the car rules.

I'm also opening the floor for suggestions for car names. All I've come up so far is "Dice-Kar." Not good.