I would love to remember you in my will, but my nephew and niece have written their names on the bottom of each piece of furniture, each rug, and each piece of silver. :surprise: Perhaps I could put a sign in the trunk of one of the cars that reads: "This goes to Steve."
we ever at war with our good friends from the great white north?
Yes, the War of 1812: the War of 1812, declared by the United States on Great Britain under President James Madison on 18 June 1812, is a source of pride to Canadians as many inhabitants, principally of Upper Canada, fought alongside the Regular British Army and Indian allies to thwart American plans to capture what were then the British colonies on their northern flank. War of 1812
This war is renacted every year in Stoney Creek Ontario. They take the renactment very seriously. They alternate the winner each year, just to be nice to both sides.
It can be difficult buying a car from a country which you have something against....but the world goes on, and you have to adjust. We need oil from Saudi Arabia, and we need TVs from Japan. It just doesn't make sense to boycot a country based on the past, but a certain amount of time might have to pass before you can accept it.
I recall a movie where Frank Sinatra played a doctor and showed up at the practice in a new Cadillac convertible. His colleague was downing him for being too flashy.
I lived in a city neighborhood where all the common people had their Fords, Chevies, and Plymouths. My Dad was a Ford guy and my Grandpop drove Chevies. Somebody with a new Mercury was considered "rich."
I hate to tell you driver, but Studebakers were made in South Bend Indiana. Furthermore, South Bend is in Northern Indiana. My dad had 3 of them in the late 40's and early 50s. They really were great and inovative vehicles.
A couple of years ago I had a customer looking for a company vehicle. He really wanted a Land Rover. After several visits and test drives he landed on a car and we were able to make the payment fit the company budget. The powers that be rejected the proposal because the car was not a domestic. He tried to tell them that since the War of 1812, we have been good friends and, in fact, allies in several conflicts. That did not sway them and he had to settle for a domestic.
Yeah, well that ain’t nothing compared to what I “forgot” how to do while finalizing my 1040 last night. I always was bad with keeping numbers in a neat column but now I find out that I can’t even pick the right line number correctly to use a multiplication factor (I can multiply). When calculating the tax I owe on my SS I chose the wrong line!! To my bad, waaaaay bad. Now instead of a nice return, I owe. I also opened my mouth to fast (a few posts back) about ALWAYS getting a return. I’m talking lots and lots of Franklins. In fact, I’m talking the next denomination UP.
I honestly don’t know how I’m going to tell HER about this after opening my mouth the other night about getting our typical return when she asked, “how is it going”? I’ve already used the reasoning, a couple years ago, about getting an interest free loan from our Borough for a year and that flew like a lead balloon. I just gotta get someone to do this clerk work for me someday.
This is getting to be the annual 'jmonroe' saga of doing tax returns
jmonroe
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I gave up about 3 years ago. Now I pay a nice young CPA about $250. to relieve me of this annual horror. He is prompt, courteous and familiar with my bookkeeping now so I just throw my file on his desk and walk out. About a week later I pick it up. No sweat, no hassle. I also get a lot more money back than I used to.
I know all about "Guidos" and they are not to be messed with.
Damn straigh!!
My grandfather actually was a Guido, as in that was his actual given name.
And - did you know that the derogatory term "wop" actually comes from "guapo" which means handsome or good-looking? Nice to characterize an entire ethnic group by "insulting" them by saying they are good-looking!
Talman, you slipped. What part of Italy was he from? My grandparents came from Tuscany, where I was given to understand that the Italian language is spoken as God intended it to be, and where spaghetti is made in the only truly correct manner - well, you get the idea. Those Tuscanos are pretty proud of themselves.
None of my Uncles Guido were actually named Guido though my grandfather was named Ciro.
They came from Avellino - down by Naples. Those in the know would tell you that you're probably better off dealing with a Sicilian than one of us. When my nephew went there to visit they were warning him all about not going out at night and watching yourself and such until they saw his last name on the passport. Turns out the mob folk over there all are relatives of some sort. He never had to wait in a line for anything. Makes me wonder why they left.
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I should have my Uncle Guido have a word with a rude salesman who didn't like it that I bought from someone else.
In my search for the right car for me, I decided that I wanted a V70 with four particular items: the Premium, Convenience, and Climate packages, and the BLIS rear-view mirrors. One Volvo salesman at a dealership where I had done a couple of test drives, told me he had the perfect car for me and I should come down to see it right away.
I checked the dealer's inventory on line and realized this car did not have my four essential things. When I asked him about that, he said "It has everything you want except Convenience."
Well, I want Convenience (that package had a power lift-gate, which was important to me), so how is that "everything you want?"
I wrote back and told him I was still looking for something with those four things on it, and his car wasn't quite right for me.
After checking another dealer's inventory on-line, I found one with the four essentials, in an acceptable color, got in touch with the saleswoman there, drove down there (45 miles away) and bought it. No drama in the actual purchase, it was a pretty easy deal.
Couple days later got another e-mail from Salesman A, he said "Hell Bianca
Wanted to see if you can stop by this weekend we have a lot of specials for this weekend like unspent money from advertising which we will use to structure our prices, so please let me know when will be a good time for you to stop by this weekend, thank you."
In other words, couldn't even spell "Hello" properly, and generally wrote like a barely literate grade-school student.
I wrote back: "Thanks for your note, but the car you had was not equipped as I wanted. I have purchased a car that had all the options I wanted someplace else. Thank you for your time."
He wrote back: "I TOLD you I could find for you any car you wanted so you know that's not the reason but never mind hope you like your car."
Hmmm.... Maybe I should tell him, "OK, the real reason I didn't buy from you is that you present yourself like a moron."
Well, I won't do that, but sheesh.... He didn't have the right car, knew I was actively looking, and yeah, presented himself like a moron.
The dealership needs to find a good Uncle Guido to pay a call on these characters before they continue to make their dealership look so bad!
WOW, an actual sales story... and a good one at that. But, at the risk of driving away the regulars, could we please continue our discussion of The War of 1812? :mad:
He wrote back: "I TOLD you I could find for you any car you wanted so you know that's not the reason but never mind hope you like your car."
LOL... that's pretty funny. This guy must of have had an inferiority complex to think you shunned him for personal reasons. :P
"Several American dictionaries will tell you that wop is an acronym for "without papers" or "without passport," supposedly formerly stamped on the immigration documents of certain newcomers arrived from Italy. Una sciocchezza! Utter flapdoodle! Poppycock! Nonsense! In all the files of all the various names under which American departments of immigration have been known throughout United States history, there is no record whatsoever of the official issuance of such a stamp. No person has ever brought forward and presented as evidence a single immigration document stamped with such a phrase. Not once....
"The etymology that appeals to my knowledge of verbal transmission is the one propounded by most Spanish linguistic writers on the etymology of their own words and language. Their basic story is: it all happened in Spain. Guapo was first applied in Spain as an insult for Italian migrant grape workers in Iberian vineyards. Today Spain has more than one million "guest workers." Of course, the country has always HAD to welcome immigrant workers because of population scarcity and density fluctuations at various times in Spanish history. When the first large flood of Italian workers came to Spain at the end of the 19th century and in the early years of the 20th century, Spanish men, with their notoriously sensitive machismo, thought very little of Italian males. Spanish women disagreed—as records of intermarriage attest. Spanish men dismissed Italian men as "los guapos," 'the pretty boys.' They were too handsome. They were pretty boys who had to be watched when they were around virginal and pure Spanish women. British and American residents and visitors to Spain heard Italian men being called guapos. That is the origin of wop that I find most cogent.
From those who have wronged you. Way back in 1990 my parents purchased their first German car, a beautiful, Astro Silver Mercedes-Benz 300E. About a week later my Hebrew School Teacher started a discussion on "ethics & morals" & whether it was right for Jewish people to buy German cars. He said it was wrong. I actually stood up and argued how much better the German cars were built, engineered, handled... Than any cars built by the domestic manufacturers. Furthermore that the last time I checked, the United States was a free country & as long as my Dad works as hard as he did, he could go out & buy a Mercedes if he wanted to. I was 14 at the time
I saw him about a year later driving an Audi 5000.
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And - did you know that the derogatory term "wop" actually comes from "guapo"
“wop” is derogatory? Then I guess you don’t mind being called “spaghetti bender”.
When I was going to school while in the Navy, I became friends with an Italian Marine from NYC in our class. As we progressed though weeks/months of new classes with new instructors taking roll call of the class, after the instructors butchered his name a few times they just threw their arms up and said, “spaghetti bender”. He just got used to it and with a wry smile, shaking his head he’d say, “here”. Sometimes even before they gave up.
Come to think of it, I didn’t mind so much that he was Italian as much as him being a Marine. :surprise:
jmonroe
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If I would have challenged my Hebrew school teacher, Rabbi Orenstein, like that, I'd have had my left ear hanging by a strand of cartilege. Not all bad though since it would match my right one. There can be beauty in symmetry so at least I'd have had that going for me. :shades:
Of course, the country has always HAD to welcome immigrant workers because of population scarcity and density fluctuations at various times in Spanish history.
If the rest of the article is as accurate as the statement above, I'll vote on "With Out Papers." Spain sent workers abroad for 20/30 years in the second half of the 20th century. There really was no much immigration in modern Spain until early in this century.
My brother lives in Spain and I've been going there often since 1990. I can tell you that you there weren't a lot (confirmed by talking to people there) imigrants for a long time.
He was talking about roughly 100 years earlier, in the latter part of the 1800's and early part of 1900's.
Depending upon when you're talking about, there has been a lot of immigration and emigration to and from Spain. For instance, there was a lot of movement between Spain and Holland in the 1500's and 1600's.
He bought a new buggy. Check your history books. It was 1865!!! Just before he died, he purchased a Model T. Since my grandmother was 30 years his junior, she drove it for many years. She also took over his dairy business and ran it for 35 more years. She was a woman ahead of her time---ran a company of 50 male workers and drivers. She added three females---an accountant, a marketing expert, and a secretary.
He wrote back: "I TOLD you I could find for you any car you wanted so you know that's not the reason but never mind hope you like your car."
Wow that's pretty rude. I mean if my customers buy elsewhere I don't take it personally.
You should write back and tell him you didn't buy from him or get him to look for any car you want because he failed to listen to what options his customers are looking for. After all you wouldn't want him to find and bring in the wrong car.
I also lose any professional respect for business folk who can't type up an email or letter using proper spelling and grammar.
What's even funnier is resumes we get from people saying they're fluent in English, but with their resume having butchered spelling, wrong punctuations, and bad grammar.
Really he lost my business entirely when he told me he had the "perfect" car when he knew it wasn't. If he had even said "I have a car close to what you want, but it doesn't have Convenience. Is that essential to you?" then I would have had more respect for him, and might have asked him to search.
But he lost it when he lied to me.
I was very grateful for the internet, and for the fact that the dealer I bought from kept their inventory up to date, because that was how I found the car that I bought. It had arrived at the dealer just a few days before I searched their site.
I just received an e-mail survey from Volvo! Of course the first question is "how satisfied are you with your new vehicle sales experience at Volvo of ABCVille?"
Now the truth is I was very satisfied with the saleswoman, but I had a small issue with the finance guy. He tried to pad the bill by $12, rounding up to the next 100, for some reason. When I said "This isn't correct, the last three figures should be $188" he just said "Oh, sorry," and instantly printed out a new bill of sale.
So if I say "very" satisfied instead of "completely" satisfied, is that going to hurt the saleswoman's scores for the month? I don't want to hurt her, but I was annoyed at the finance guy.
We deal with subprime customers but sometimes I shake my head as to why people want to get in to more debt or replace their vehicles.
A customer who already has a van (an Uplander) wanted to replace it with a newer Dodge Grand Caravan. The only reason he wanted to replace it was because his Uplander doesn't have recessed cargo well, and when he puts groceries in and comes home, they fall out when he opens the tailgate.
So this guy was willing to trade in a van and carry over about $8k of negative equity just for this reason. The funniest part is he never even used the 3rd row of seats in his van sp he had a ton of space there, and his problem would have been solved with a simple rubbermaid bin in the cargo area. Maybe there were other reasons why he wanted to trade but all he was saying was that this cargo issue was "killing him".
And he was going to go from $390/month payments on his current vehicle to about $650/month just for this reason. The bank didn't approve him and the deal was off.
I understand if you're loaded with money and would like to change vehicles for fun and have the financial means to do it, but when you're in debt with bad credit and negative equity, what are you thinking?
I am not completely cognizant of all the questions on the Volvo survey, but I think since it states "sales experience" it is geared toward your sales person. There may be questions regarding the finance experience specifically. That would be you place for a downgrade or a comment that will not impact your sales person.
but when you're in debt with bad credit and negative equity, what are you thinking?
That's how people get into too much debt and end up with bad credit and negative equity, by not thinking.
People would probably be better off if they routinely were required to put at least 20% down when buying a new car. Then it wouldn't seem so much like "free money," like these "No down, zero percent," etc., etc. ads that try to make people believe that it's almost painless, buying a new car.
. It was 1865!!! Just before he died, he purchased a Model T.
I get you now...he was mad at the North because of the Civil War. But weren't Model Ts built in Detroit. So he proably couldn't find a Southern built car, that was affordable....unless Kia had a plant by then.
I love those kind of stories. I remember my Grade 3 teacher telling us about how the Jews had to wander through the desert for 40 years. But today they drive Cadillacs and Lincolns!
. . .if they weren't so much madder at their own French speakers.
Not so much anymore. When I was doing business in Montreal back in the early '70s it was pretty tense. Now things are really mellow -- we came so close to splitting the country back in October of '95 that it gave many of us (on both sides of the issue) pause. Canada needs Quebec, and vice-versa, in my never-humble opinion.
I'm in Montreal (well, Laval actually) at the moment, and it's great to be home.
He tried to tell them that since the War of 1812, we have been good friends
Sorry but it wasn't until the 1890's that the US and the UK started to realize that they had common interests and started being friends. Things like the UK supporting the South during the Civil War and the US almost letting the Irish invade Canada in the 1870's wasn't a sign of us being good friends.
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You mean the War of Northern Aggression is over? :P My grandfather fought in the Civil War. He refused to buy cars that were made in the North.
Richard
I decided to pass. I hit him too hard yesterday. He's really a nice guy.
Richard
Richard
I HAVE to buy them. Grocery stores don't sell yellow ones now.
Richard
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Well in the Revolution we won, in 1812 it was a draw.
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No you mean the War of the Rebellion.
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Yes, the War of 1812:
the War of 1812, declared by the United States on Great Britain under President James Madison on 18 June 1812, is a source of pride to Canadians as many inhabitants, principally of Upper Canada, fought alongside the Regular British Army and Indian allies to thwart American plans to capture what were then the British colonies on their northern flank.
War of 1812
This war is renacted every year in Stoney Creek Ontario. They take the renactment very seriously. They alternate the winner each year, just to be nice to both sides.
It can be difficult buying a car from a country which you have something against....but the world goes on, and you have to adjust. We need oil from Saudi Arabia, and we need TVs from Japan. It just doesn't make sense to boycot a country based on the past, but a certain amount of time might have to pass before you can accept it.
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lol....what did he buy, Studebakers?
What cars were made in the South?
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I am from the South so that could be a reason why I don't buy cars from Detroit !!
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Bunch of Hosers.
Not sure what that means, but sounds funny as all get out when Garth says it.
I had a 1962 Renault (pronounced ReNo) Dauphine. French car. What a POS.
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I lived in a city neighborhood where all the common people had their Fords, Chevies, and Plymouths. My Dad was a Ford guy and my Grandpop drove Chevies. Somebody with a new Mercury was considered "rich."
Of course I expect you to outlive me so this is an exercise in futility.
Now we haven't been at war with Britain in a long time so I'm ready to forgive them but not ready enough to bu a British car....
Yeah, well that ain’t nothing compared to what I “forgot” how to do while finalizing my 1040 last night. I always was bad with keeping numbers in a neat column but now I find out that I can’t even pick the right line number correctly to use a multiplication factor (I can multiply). When calculating the tax I owe on my SS I chose the wrong line!! To my bad, waaaaay bad. Now instead of a nice return, I owe. I also opened my mouth to fast (a few posts back) about ALWAYS getting a return. I’m talking lots and lots of Franklins. In fact, I’m talking the next denomination UP.
I honestly don’t know how I’m going to tell HER about this after opening my mouth the other night about getting our typical return when she asked, “how is it going”? I’ve already used the reasoning, a couple years ago, about getting an interest free loan from our Borough for a year and that flew like a lead balloon. I just gotta get someone to do this clerk work for me someday.
This is getting to be the annual 'jmonroe' saga of doing tax returns
jmonroe
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Spring planting.
What makes them roll over?
Gravity.
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Yep. And some of them are still mad at the US because of it. It might be a problem if they weren't so much madder at their own French speakers. :P
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Ya think we oughta hold that against him?
If nothing else that should be good for a dues increase. :surprise:
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And if you don't believe that, I'll have my Uncle Guido give you a good talking-to...
I grew up in a fishing town in So. Calif.
I think I was one of three people in my elementry school whose last name didn't end in a vowel or an "ich".
I know all about "Guidos" and they are not to be messed with.
In fact, I know more than I should know!
My grandfather came to this country with Guido as his first name. That got dropped and his last name became "Americanized". Sad.
Damn straigh!!
My grandfather actually was a Guido, as in that was his actual given name.
And - did you know that the derogatory term "wop" actually comes from "guapo" which means handsome or good-looking? Nice to characterize an entire ethnic group by "insulting" them by saying they are good-looking!
Talman, you slipped. What part of Italy was he from? My grandparents came from Tuscany, where I was given to understand that the Italian language is spoken as God intended it to be, and where spaghetti is made in the only truly correct manner - well, you get the idea. Those Tuscanos are pretty proud of themselves.
Are you my long lost sister???????
Nice forum youse got here. Too bad if something wuzz to happen to it.
Good NJ Italian (well, my dad's half of me... mom was your basic American mix).
None of my Uncles Guido were actually named Guido though my grandfather was named Ciro.
They came from Avellino - down by Naples. Those in the know would tell you that you're probably better off dealing with a Sicilian than one of us. When my nephew went there to visit they were warning him all about not going out at night and watching yourself and such until they saw his last name on the passport. Turns out the mob folk over there all are relatives of some sort. He never had to wait in a line for anything. Makes me wonder why they left.
In my search for the right car for me, I decided that I wanted a V70 with four particular items: the Premium, Convenience, and Climate packages, and the BLIS rear-view mirrors. One Volvo salesman at a dealership where I had done a couple of test drives, told me he had the perfect car for me and I should come down to see it right away.
I checked the dealer's inventory on line and realized this car did not have my four essential things. When I asked him about that, he said "It has everything you want except Convenience."
Well, I want Convenience (that package had a power lift-gate, which was important to me), so how is that "everything you want?"
I wrote back and told him I was still looking for something with those four things on it, and his car wasn't quite right for me.
After checking another dealer's inventory on-line, I found one with the four essentials, in an acceptable color, got in touch with the saleswoman there, drove down there (45 miles away) and bought it. No drama in the actual purchase, it was a pretty easy deal.
Couple days later got another e-mail from Salesman A, he said "Hell Bianca
Wanted to see if you can stop by this weekend we have a lot of specials for this weekend like unspent money from advertising which we will use to structure our prices, so please let me know when will be a good time for you to stop by this weekend, thank you."
In other words, couldn't even spell "Hello" properly, and generally wrote like a barely literate grade-school student.
I wrote back: "Thanks for your note, but the car you had was not equipped as I wanted. I have purchased a car that had all the options I wanted someplace else. Thank you for your time."
He wrote back: "I TOLD you I could find for you any car you wanted so you know that's not the reason but never mind hope you like your car."
Hmmm.... Maybe I should tell him, "OK, the real reason I didn't buy from you is that you present yourself like a moron."
Well, I won't do that, but sheesh.... He didn't have the right car, knew I was actively looking, and yeah, presented himself like a moron.
The dealership needs to find a good Uncle Guido to pay a call on these characters before they continue to make their dealership look so bad!
He wrote back: "I TOLD you I could find for you any car you wanted so you know that's not the reason but never mind hope you like your car."
LOL... that's pretty funny. This guy must of have had an inferiority complex to think you shunned him for personal reasons. :P
I have heard many times that the term " Wop" cane frome when a large group of Italians came through Ellis Island.
They were seperated into two groups. Those who had already been processed and those who were still Without papers.
The second group wore tags on their sirts that said W.O. P.
When they would call out for more people to be processed they would yell out..." Send my 20 more WOPS.
But, I wouldn't know for sure since my relatives came from Norway.
A lot of my friends were Italian and their parents would treat me like family.
Seriously, they aren't to be messed with. They take care of family and friends.
http://www.billcasselman.com/wording_room/wop.htm
(Long, but worth reading in full.)
Some excerpts:
"Several American dictionaries will tell you that wop is an acronym for "without papers" or "without passport," supposedly formerly stamped on the immigration documents of certain newcomers arrived from Italy. Una sciocchezza! Utter flapdoodle! Poppycock! Nonsense! In all the files of all the various names under which American departments of immigration have been known throughout United States history, there is no record whatsoever of the official issuance of such a stamp. No person has ever brought forward and presented as evidence a single immigration document stamped with such a phrase. Not once....
"The etymology that appeals to my knowledge of verbal transmission is the one propounded by most Spanish linguistic writers on the etymology of their own words and language. Their basic story is: it all happened in Spain. Guapo was first applied in Spain as an insult for Italian migrant grape workers in Iberian vineyards. Today Spain has more than one million "guest workers." Of course, the country has always HAD to welcome immigrant workers because of population scarcity and density fluctuations at various times in Spanish history. When the first large flood of Italian workers came to Spain at the end of the 19th century and in the early years of the 20th century, Spanish men, with their notoriously sensitive machismo, thought very little of Italian males. Spanish women disagreed—as records of intermarriage attest. Spanish men dismissed Italian men as "los guapos," 'the pretty boys.' They were too handsome. They were pretty boys who had to be watched when they were around virginal and pure Spanish women. British and American residents and visitors to Spain heard Italian men being called guapos. That is the origin of wop that I find most cogent.
"
I saw him about a year later driving an Audi 5000.
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“wop” is derogatory? Then I guess you don’t mind being called “spaghetti bender”.
When I was going to school while in the Navy, I became friends with an Italian Marine from NYC in our class. As we progressed though weeks/months of new classes with new instructors taking roll call of the class, after the instructors butchered his name a few times they just threw their arms up and said, “spaghetti bender”. He just got used to it and with a wry smile, shaking his head he’d say, “here”. Sometimes even before they gave up.
Come to think of it, I didn’t mind so much that he was Italian as much as him being a Marine. :surprise:
jmonroe
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If the rest of the article is as accurate as the statement above, I'll vote on "With Out Papers." Spain sent workers abroad for 20/30 years in the second half of the 20th century. There really was no much immigration in modern Spain until early in this century.
My brother lives in Spain and I've been going there often since 1990. I can tell you that you there weren't a lot (confirmed by talking to people there) imigrants for a long time.
Depending upon when you're talking about, there has been a lot of immigration and emigration to and from Spain. For instance, there was a lot of movement between Spain and Holland in the 1500's and 1600's.
Haha, that's a funny story. Too bad you didn't run it in his face.
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He bought a new buggy. Check your history books. It was 1865!!! Just before he died, he purchased a Model T. Since my grandmother was 30 years his junior, she drove it for many years. She also took over his dairy business and ran it for 35 more years. She was a woman ahead of her time---ran a company of 50 male workers and drivers. She added three females---an accountant, a marketing expert, and a secretary.
Richard
Wow that's pretty rude. I mean if my customers buy elsewhere I don't take it personally.
You should write back and tell him you didn't buy from him or get him to look for any car you want because he failed to listen to what options his customers are looking for. After all you wouldn't want him to find and bring in the wrong car.
I also lose any professional respect for business folk who can't type up an email or letter using proper spelling and grammar.
What's even funnier is resumes we get from people saying they're fluent in English, but with their resume having butchered spelling, wrong punctuations, and bad grammar.
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Really he lost my business entirely when he told me he had the "perfect" car when he knew it wasn't. If he had even said "I have a car close to what you want, but it doesn't have Convenience. Is that essential to you?" then I would have had more respect for him, and might have asked him to search.
But he lost it when he lied to me.
I was very grateful for the internet, and for the fact that the dealer I bought from kept their inventory up to date, because that was how I found the car that I bought. It had arrived at the dealer just a few days before I searched their site.
Now the truth is I was very satisfied with the saleswoman, but I had a small issue with the finance guy. He tried to pad the bill by $12, rounding up to the next 100, for some reason. When I said "This isn't correct, the last three figures should be $188" he just said "Oh, sorry," and instantly printed out a new bill of sale.
So if I say "very" satisfied instead of "completely" satisfied, is that going to hurt the saleswoman's scores for the month? I don't want to hurt her, but I was annoyed at the finance guy.
A customer who already has a van (an Uplander) wanted to replace it with a newer Dodge Grand Caravan. The only reason he wanted to replace it was because his
Uplander doesn't have recessed cargo well, and when he puts groceries in and comes home, they fall out when he opens the tailgate.
So this guy was willing to trade in a van and carry over about $8k of negative equity just for this reason. The funniest part is he never even used the 3rd row of seats in his van sp he had a ton of space there, and his problem would have been solved with a simple rubbermaid bin in the cargo area. Maybe there were other reasons why he wanted to trade but all he was saying was that this cargo issue was "killing him".
And he was going to go from $390/month payments on his current vehicle to about $650/month just for this reason. The bank didn't approve him and the deal was off.
I understand if you're loaded with money and would like to change vehicles for fun and have the financial means to do it, but when you're in debt with bad credit and negative equity, what are you thinking?
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That's how people get into too much debt and end up with bad credit and negative equity, by not thinking.
People would probably be better off if they routinely were required to put at least 20% down when buying a new car. Then it wouldn't seem so much like "free money," like these "No down, zero percent," etc., etc. ads that try to make people believe that it's almost painless, buying a new car.
lol...that was my laugh for the day.
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I get you now...he was mad at the North because of the Civil War. But weren't Model Ts built in Detroit. So he proably couldn't find a Southern built car, that was affordable....unless Kia had a plant by then.
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I love those kind of stories. I remember my Grade 3 teacher telling us about how the Jews had to wander through the desert for 40 years. But today they drive Cadillacs and Lincolns!
Those were not politically correct days.
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Not so much anymore. When I was doing business in Montreal back in the early '70s it was pretty tense. Now things are really mellow -- we came so close to splitting the country back in October of '95 that it gave many of us (on both sides of the issue) pause. Canada needs Quebec, and vice-versa, in my never-humble opinion.
I'm in Montreal (well, Laval actually) at the moment, and it's great to be home.
Sorry but it wasn't until the 1890's that the US and the UK started to realize that they had common interests and started being friends. Things like the UK supporting the South during the Civil War and the US almost letting the Irish invade Canada in the 1870's wasn't a sign of us being good friends.
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